Jobs at Ciena

Advances People & Culture technology through Workday configuration, automation, AI, and process improvement. Partners with HR stakeholders, Workday analysts, project managers, and IT to define requirements, develop scalable solutions, improve employee experience, and maintain privacy, legal, security, and ethical standards. Manages multiple global initiatives across more than 37 countries.

Drives electronic assembly transitions from engineering to manufacturing, partnering with contract manufacturers to improve manufacturability, resolve process issues, conduct DFM reviews, maintain work instructions, and support production readiness. The role covers SMT and through-hole assembly, CAD-based PCB/PCBA reviews, IPC-610 standards, manufacturing qualification, vendor assessments, and new product introductions across global operations.

Own the technical direction, architecture, security, stability, governance, and overall health of Ciena’s ServiceNow platform. Assess the existing environment, design scalable solutions, perform hands-on development and troubleshooting, enforce development and release standards, address technical debt and performance risks, lead upgrades and root-cause analysis, document platform architecture, and guide developers, administrators, stakeholders, and implementation partners.

Develops and executes verification strategies for ASIC functional blocks and subsystems. Responsibilities include creating SystemVerilog UVM and C testbenches, test plans, coverage models, formal verification environments, and test scenarios; running regressions; debugging failures; validating designs against requirements; and collaborating with architects, systems engineers, and designers.

Leads production and supply planning at a Thailand manufacturing site, aligning demand, capacity, materials, inventory, and operational readiness. Coordinates with contract manufacturers and global planning teams, monitors execution, identifies risks, develops corrective actions, and presents capacity and delivery insights to stakeholders. Partners with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Procurement, and Supply Chain teams to achieve customer delivery commitments.

Lead the design, development, testing, and deployment of Java-based microservices and REST APIs for cloud-native telecom networking platforms. Architect scalable and highly available applications, implement containerized deployments with Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift, optimize database and system performance, troubleshoot production issues, and guide technical direction. Collaborate with product, QA, and cross-functional teams using Agile practices to deliver reliable enterprise software.

Supports customer services project delivery by coordinating implementation activities, schedules, milestones, deliverables, risks, communications, quality objectives, and financial targets. Analyzes proposals, develops execution approaches, tracks project performance, and collaborates with Customer Operations, Sales, Finance, Service Delivery, and other stakeholders. The role operates under senior project manager guidance in a matrix organization.

Designs, validates, debugs, and supports high-performance digital hardware and complex PCBs for networking and telecommunications products. Responsibilities include digital circuit design, schematic and PCB reviews, prototype bring-up, lab testing, signal and power integrity analysis, troubleshooting communication interfaces, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration with FPGA, software, systems, mechanical, and manufacturing teams.

Executes global audits covering compliance, third-party risk, SOX, financial, operational, and emerging risks. Evaluates controls, policies, regulatory compliance, and third-party relationships through interviews, walkthroughs, testing, data analytics, and risk assessments. Identifies trends and control gaps, partners with business leaders on corrective actions, and contributes to reporting, investigations, continuous monitoring, and process improvement.

Rotational early-career IT program participant completing four six-month assignments across IT disciplines. The role supports technology initiatives, analyzes business processes and performance data, evaluates technology solutions, develops reports and dashboards, collaborates with technical and business stakeholders, and presents recommendations and project outcomes to leadership. Participants receive coaching, mentoring, and development opportunities while completing a capstone project.

Lead chip-level verification for complex FPGA designs by establishing verification methodologies, architectures, and infrastructure. Develop testbenches, models, generators, monitors, scoreboards, verification plans, and test cases using SystemVerilog and UVM. Analyze coverage, triage regressions, report defects, and drive bug resolution. Collaborate with design teams, establish priorities, and mentor junior verification engineers.

Three-year rotational Finance Development Program preparing early-career professionals for finance leadership roles. Participants rotate through accounting, FP&A, commercial management, tax, treasury, internal audit, and investor relations while supporting financial analysis, forecasting, reporting, business decisions, internal controls, and cross-functional improvement projects. The program emphasizes mentorship, networking, leadership development, data analysis, and applying AI and automation to improve financial processes.

Leads account strategy and revenue growth across strategic telecommunications service provider accounts in India. Develops customer relationships, identifies and advances opportunities through the sales cycle, supports proposals and negotiations, and collaborates with engineering, product, marketing, services, and sales operations teams. Communicates customer needs, market trends, and competitive insights while potentially leading teams or cross-functional initiatives.

Leads the technical definition, development, launch, manufacturing performance, cost optimization, and lifecycle management of pluggable optical modules. Collaborates with R&D, manufacturing, operations, and supply chain teams; analyzes production yields and statistical trends; improves processes; establishes test specifications; manages product revisions, obsolescence, and end-of-life planning.

Executes webinar, event, and email marketing programs using Marketo and related platforms. Builds and quality-assures email campaigns, landing pages, forms, audience segmentation, automation workflows, scheduling, and suppression logic. Coordinates stakeholders, validates campaign readiness, supports live webinars, and analyzes email and webinar performance metrics. Maintains compliance, accuracy, and operational quality across high-volume campaigns.

Design and validate silicon photonics chips for high-speed optical transmitters and receivers, focusing on performance, cost, and reliability. Collaborate on circuit layouts, lead design reviews, support prototyping, and drive continuous improvements in product lifecycle performance.

Develop and optimize automated manufacturing test systems for photonics, RLS, and modem products. Lead global RLS lifecycle-management activities, create test software and sequences, guide design-for-testability reviews, support prototype validation, and establish production test processes with contract manufacturers. The role also integrates test stations with manufacturing systems, drives automation and continuous improvement, and provides technical guidance across R&D, NPI, LCM, repair, and manufacturing teams.

Develop physical implementation flows for advanced mixed-signal SoC ASICs, including floorplanning, power grids, clock distribution, place and route, timing and power optimization, ECOs, formal verification, DFT timing, STA, and GDSII generation. Collaborate with RTL, analog, ASIC, and tool vendor teams while developing scripts to automate backend design workflows and achieve signoff-quality performance, power, and area results.

Responds to critical customer network outages, troubleshooting Ciena optical networking and routing and switching products to restore service. The role documents recovery actions, prepares root cause analyses, supports complex incidents, participates in rotational weekend on-call coverage, and contributes to lessons learned and network recovery best practices.

Execute feature, integration, regression, and system-level validation for optical networking software and hardware. Develop and maintain test plans, validate network management interfaces and streaming telemetry, investigate defects using logs and system data, and collaborate with development and engineering teams. Contribute to Python-based test automation and support reliable product releases.