Are you looking for an opportunity with plenty of growth potential? Do you enjoy working in an exciting, fast-paced, collaborative environment? Are you interested in working with the world’s most innovative companies to create a more connected world? 

Connecting Continents. Impacting Communities. 

The backbone of the Internet is a series of high-tech subsea fiber optic cables deployed throughout the globe - SubCom has deployed over 50% of them. Our employees ensure data communications networks are engineered, manufactured, deployed, and maintained to the highest standards, enabling faster and more reliable connectivity to communities worldwide. Every member of the SubCom team plays a role in an end-to-end process that is critical to enterprises, governments, big cities, and rural towns. 

We encourage, expect, and value creativity, thoughtful risk taking, openness to change, and diverse perspectives. Whether you’re a seasoned applicant seeking a new and exciting challenge, or you’re new to the workforce and looking for a flexible, rewarding, and fast-paced position with an innovative and stable organization (since 1953), SubCom has opportunities to advance your career. 

Position Overview 

The Department of System Design and Product Management is looking for a software engineer to assist in developing and managing software simulations tools used to design high-capacity undersea fiber-optic networks. This person will work as part of the team of optical designers and project engineers responsible for delivery of undersea optical communication systems. The successful candidate will be responsible for introducing enhancements to the set of in-house software tools used for fiber-optics network design, optimization, evaluation, and implementation. This person will report directly to the Senior Manager of System Design and Product Management that is part of the Customer Solutions Organization within SubCom, and will collaborate with people from Research and Development, Sales, Project Management, Marine Operations and Manufacturing. The job offers opportunities for exploratory work on new technologies as well as design and implementation of new systems.

Responsibilities 

Create new and update existent software tools. Assist engineers in troubleshooting code that incorporates numerical methods to simulate various physical effects. Update features of GUI based on feedback from the users. Manage software development cycle from collecting and documenting Modification Requests to working with senior engineers to incorporate changes, to preparing new releases, running testcases and publishing release notes. Perform updates to multiple software development packages via GitLab. Administer Linux server where the source code resides. Collaborate with software developers in other organizations within SubCom to access data in various databases and facilitate data flow with other software packages.