Software Developer Intern

Position: Job Title Software Developer Co-Op/Intern

Number of Position(s): 1

Duration: 4 months

Date: January 5th to April 25th, 2026

Location: Hybrid in Ottawa

EDUCATIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS

Currently a candidate for a bachelor's degree in software engineering or electrical engineering at an accredited Canadian college or university.

 

• Good knowledge of layer-2 and layer-3 networking and protocols

• Experience working with standard Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, RHEL and exposure to embedded Linux environment.

• Programming experience with Python, Bash in Linux environment for automation, monitoring and troubleshooting

It would be nice if you also had:

• Comfortable using standard Linux tools for troubleshooting and configuration

• Previous experience working with optical networking products such as DWDM Transponders and Optical-Line-Systems

• Familiarity with system testing using mainstream test solutions such as Viavi and Spirent

• Exposure to standard NBI protocols such as RESTCONF, NETCONF, gRPC and telemetry

• Work in the Solution Lab for the Nokia Data Center Interconnect products, deployed globally with top tier customers.
• Set up and configure DCI products for targeted customer scenarios and acquire knowledge about optical network configuration, performance monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Onboard, validate and harden features as part of the New Product Introduction for major and minor software releases.
• Contribute to End-to-end solution automation in functional, robustness and interop testing.
• Motivated to learn new technologies and tools