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Lead Principal Embedded Software Engineer – Optical Networking
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17 October 2026 (13 hours ago)
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14 January 2027
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1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
Location: Ottawa ON
Employment Type: Full-Time Permanent
Were partnered with a global technology leader in optical networking and communications infrastructure that is making a significant investment in expanding its engineering presence in Ottawa. As part of this growth our client is building a team of experienced engineers who will play a key role in developing and delivering the next generation of optical networking technologies.
Were looking for Lead and Principal Embedded Software Engineers who bring strong C/C development expertise and hands-on experience with optical networking systems. This is an opportunity to take technical ownership of sophisticated embedded software platforms contribute to the development of advanced optical transport technologies and help shape a growing engineering team. Youll play an important role in establishing software development practices influencing technical decisions and building the engineering capabilities of a team positioned for long-term growth.
What Youll Be Doing
What Were Looking For
Additional Experience That Would Be Valuable
Why Consider This Opportunity
This is a chance to join an established global technology organization while helping build something new in Ottawa. Youll have the resources and technical challenges of a major industry player combined with the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on a growing local engineering team.
Were considering experienced engineers at both Lead and Principal levels with opportunities to take technical ownership influence engineering practices and grow alongside the organization.
Employment Type: Full-Time Permanent
Were partnered with a global technology leader in optical networking and communications infrastructure that is making a significant investment in expanding its engineering presence in Ottawa. As part of this growth our client is building a team of experienced engineers who will play a key role in developing and delivering the next generation of optical networking technologies.
Were looking for Lead and Principal Embedded Software Engineers who bring strong C/C development expertise and hands-on experience with optical networking systems. This is an opportunity to take technical ownership of sophisticated embedded software platforms contribute to the development of advanced optical transport technologies and help shape a growing engineering team. Youll play an important role in establishing software development practices influencing technical decisions and building the engineering capabilities of a team positioned for long-term growth.
What Youll Be Doing
- Design and develop embedded software for DWDM optical networking systems including next-generation optical line systems and network elements.
- Develop new software features and enhance existing functionality across optical networking platforms.
- Work extensively with C/C in embedded Linux environments including multi-threaded and multi-process software architectures.
- Develop software supporting optical networking functionality including photonic control alarm management performance monitoring and service provisioning.
- Contribute to platform-level software development including board support packages (BSPs) system infrastructure and network management interfaces.
- Collaborate with hardware systems engineering verification and integration teams to deliver reliable high-performance networking products.
- Troubleshoot complex software issues optimize system performance and support ongoing product enhancements.
- Participate in technical design discussions code reviews and continuous improvement of software engineering practices.
- Work with product management and customer-facing engineering teams to understand technical requirements and translate them into effective software solutions.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers helping establish strong development practices as the Ottawa team expands.
What Were Looking For
- 5 years of embedded software development experience with opportunities available for engineers at both Lead and Principal levels.
- 3 years of experience in optical networking including hands-on development involving Layer 0 / Layer 1 optical transport equipment.
- Strong expertise in C and C programming within embedded systems.
- Experience developing software for embedded Linux platforms including multi-threaded and multi-process applications.
- Knowledge of DWDM optical networking systems and technologies such as ROADMs optical line systems and in-line amplifiers.
- Experience developing software for network elements including platform infrastructure BSPs northbound interfaces or optical control applications.
- Familiarity with networking protocols such as TCP/IP Ethernet LLDP OSPF or BGP.
- Experience with network management interfaces and technologies such as NETCONF YANG or OpenConfig.
- Experience working across the software development lifecycle including Agile methodologies CI/CD and DevOps practices.
- A degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Science or a related technical discipline.
Additional Experience That Would Be Valuable
- Experience with open-source networking technologies such as SONiC FRRouting or Open vSwitch.
- Familiarity with virtualization and container technologies.
- Experience with Python or Go in addition to C/C.
- Experience developing optical networking features involving photonic control performance monitoring alarms or service management.
- Experience with embedded Linux platform development device drivers or board-level software.
- Experience leading technical design initiatives establishing coding standards or mentoring software engineers.
- Experience collaborating with globally distributed engineering teams.
Why Consider This Opportunity
This is a chance to join an established global technology organization while helping build something new in Ottawa. Youll have the resources and technical challenges of a major industry player combined with the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on a growing local engineering team.
Were considering experienced engineers at both Lead and Principal levels with opportunities to take technical ownership influence engineering practices and grow alongside the organization.
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