Senior Photonic Hardware Engineer – Lifecycle Management

at  Ciena

CIENA IS COMMITTED TO OUR PEOPLE-FIRST PHILOSOPHY. OUR TEAMS ENJOY A CULTURE FOCUSED ON PRIORITIZING A PERSONALIZED AND FLEXIBLE WORK ENVIRONMENT THAT EMPOWERS AN INDIVIDUAL’S PASSIONS, GROWTH, WELLBEING AND BELONGING. WE’RE A TECHNOLOGY COMPANY THAT LEADS WITH OUR HUMANITY—DRIVING OUR BUSINESS PRIORITIES ALONGSIDE MEANINGFUL SOCIAL, COMMUNITY, AND SOCIETAL IMPACT.

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EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelors, Masters, or Ph.D. in engineering or a similar technical discipline (e.g. Physics)
• Significant work experience (min 5 years combined in industry excluding academic experience) in LCM, or R&D in one or more of the following areas:
• Optical hardware including one or more of the following technologies (min 2 years): EDFAs, Raman amplifiers, WSSs, OCMs, OTDRs
• Electronic hardware design, verification, and/or debugging at one or more levels of abstraction in electronic subsystems, e.g.: board level, component or device level, experience with FPGAs (e.g. HDL, RTL, etc.), experience with MCUs programming and firmware, experience with various serial interfaces (UART, SPI, I2C, etc.)

• Work with testing and new product introduction (NPI) teams affiliated with factory production to improve test coverage and efficiency, and look for opportunities to broadly improve factory processes including: automating tasks, changing test procedures, parallelizing tests, methods to find issues faster, etc.
• Improve automation to continuously monitor factory yield across different products, and work with factories and suppliers to improve processes to manage and improve yield
• Analyze and debug critical customer field issues and consult with various teams across Ciena and at supplier companies to rigorously provide root cause analysis on various problems
• Lead design and verification activities on hardware updates to existing products while maintaining performance specifications, e.g. for cost reduction or to phase out components that will not be manufactured in the future