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Astrape Networks: Network Component Engineer (HW/SW)

In a world that generates zettabytes of data every day, transporting data should be fast, efficient and require almost no energy.​

At Astrape, we enable the transition to exponential growth of fully optical data networks for a faster and more sustainable Internet.​ We build fully optical data networks by means of a patent-pending, state-of-the art integrated photonics with ns-fast reconfiguration.

Our technology can deliver up to 12.8Tb/s of bandwidth per port, which is a 16-times improvement on current products on the market and with an energy reduction of at least 20%.

Your experience and skills
To be successful in this role:

• You have an engineering background in EE, Computer science or Physics.
• You have professional experience with Ethernet/IP networks or a strong desire to develop the necessary knowledge to work with them.
• You have excellent written and spoken English skills
• You have a pragmatic attitude and are familiar with providing technical assistance and consultancy.
• You are a fast learner, analytically strong and not afraid of unknown territories.
• You thrive on collaborative teamwork and coworking with a multicultural team sounds very exciting to you.
• We would be extra impressed if you are familiar with provisioning systems and typical network deployment scenarios.

You have strong skills in some of these fields:

• Comfortable working in an open-source Linux/FreeBSD/Unix environment.
• Low level network protocols, such as ethernet and TCP/IP and device driver development
• Building embedded systems and multi-threaded applications
• Network troubleshooting on complex Internet switching and routing problems
• Advanced/expert level traceroute/MTR/iperf/tcpdump skills
• Networking concepts (VRRP/VLANs/High Availability/Load Balancing)

What we offer you

• A highly talented and multicultural team of hardware, network and application engineers
• Working on great tech stack with cutting edge photonics technologies
• Be part of a startup company with a long-term vision
• Competitive salary depending on your relevant work experience
• Project exposure and ownership that impacts our users, product and business
• Challenging technical tasks, fast learning cycles and meaningful feedback

This role is based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

If you are up to the challenge, apply to HR@astrape.net