Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Austin, TX

Serves as the primary IT contact for business, executive, factory, and manufacturing stakeholders. Translates business needs into IT requirements, manages service portfolios, roadmaps, investments, programs, and projects, and governs service providers. Handles escalations, service-level agreements, performance reporting, improvement initiatives, and executive-critical support. Ensures IT solutions align with business objectives, budgets, timelines, quality standards, and enterprise architecture while supporting technology adoption and end-user training.

Lead global telecommunications patent litigation, including infringement, validity, essentiality, and technical analyses. Prepare patents and legal actions, coordinate external counsel across jurisdictions, and support worldwide licensing activities. The role requires synthesizing technical and legal expertise, managing complex stakeholder relationships, and developing litigation and licensing strategies, with emphasis on U.S. matters, 3GPP technologies, FRAND, and standard-essential patent frameworks.

Manages the lifecycle and strategy of networking products, translating customer and market needs into technical requirements, business cases, releases, pricing, documentation, and demonstrations. Partners with R&D, marketing, sales, support, regional teams, and customers to prioritize features, validate development plans, support bids, and launch profitable products. Requires deep expertise in Linux, telecommunications, networking architectures, embedded systems, and modern network management technologies. Occasional travel to Nokia sites and customer premises is required.

Develop and implement test plans for coherent optical pluggable products using Photonics Integrated Circuits. Analyze transceiver performance, define testability requirements, validate test platforms, and collaborate with development and manufacturing teams. Support fault isolation, integrate platform changes into manufacturing, and improve test yield and cycle times through data analytics and statistical modeling.

Leads end-to-end customer success programs and operational services for hyperscale customers. Manages cross-functional global teams, technical escalations, deployments, upgrades, quality initiatives, risks, budgets, contracts, schedules, and customer communications. Coordinates engineering, support, product, quality, supply chain, logistics, sales, and account teams to resolve issues, improve reliability, meet contractual commitments, and drive customer satisfaction and commercial performance.

Sustain and improve PIC wafer fabrication through metrology, process characterization, defect analysis, and process control. Develop and maintain metrology recipes, sampling plans, and inline monitoring strategies; analyze data and SPC excursions; support failure analysis, equipment qualification, troubleshooting, documentation, operator training, technology transfers, and production ramps. Collaborate with process integration, manufacturing, equipment engineering, R&D, operations, and external analysis teams to improve yield, quality, and manufacturing performance.

Design, simulate, analyze, and productionize high-speed analog and mixed-signal circuits, including ADCs, DACs, PLLs, and SERDES in advanced CMOS technologies. Develop optimized layout floor plans, guide layout engineers, evaluate topology trade-offs, create analog testing plans, and collaborate with process and test engineering teams to characterize products. Support design methodologies, release flows, behavioral modeling, and circuit analysis.

Manage technical data for IP Routing hardware NPI programs: support NPI from data entry through factory implementation, maintain product data and Engineering Change Orders across the product lifecycle, and coordinate with engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing to ensure accurate PLM/PDM records and implementation.

Design and simulate analog and mixed-signal PCB circuits to control lasers and optical components. Create SPICE simulations, schematics, and power supplies; collaborate with PCB layout, firmware, and software teams. Bring up, test, debug, and document new hardware; lead design reviews and EDVT.

Designs and operates IT services for laboratory environments, including networks, compute, security, private cloud, and SDN platforms. Translates business and IT requirements into secure, standardized architectures and operational processes. Leads deployments, design reviews, documentation, incident gap analysis, automation, and infrastructure optimization. Requires extensive enterprise networking, datacenter, virtualization, Linux, security, and ITIL experience.