Jobs at Ciena

Lead and manage a global team of component engineers, focusing on strategic planning, supplier partnerships, and ensuring component reliability and performance in Ciena's solutions.

Design and implement production test solutions and automation for mixed-signal ASICs. Develop test environments, cases, and scripts in C and SystemVerilog. Debug failures, optimize test methodologies, collaborate with analog/digital teams, and improve yield and test efficiency.

Lead development and lab characterization of 200G/400G PAM‑4 optical modules for AI/ML systems. Use high-speed optical and electronic test equipment, configure DSP-based SerDes, assess standards compliance, perform system-level testing with customers, analyze measurements, troubleshoot hardware with cross-functional teams, and maintain test benches and documentation.

The Senior Director, Strategic Accounts leads growth initiatives for strategic customers, focusing on go-to-market strategies, financial commitments, and global sales team management.

Design opto-mechanical photonic components: perform mechanical, thermal and stress modeling; define specifications with optical/RF teams; plan and analyze DOEs; optimize designs for high-volume manufacturing; document and transfer designs to production while leading design reviews and cross-functional interactions.

Design and execute hardware test plans to validate performance, stress, and reliability of optical telecom products. Troubleshoot issues, analyze results, produce detailed reports, and collaborate with design teams. Contribute to and maintain automated test suites to improve efficiency.

Manage global accounting and financial planning IT projects and programs: lead cross-functional and vendor teams, prioritize requirements, create schedules, track risks and milestones, drive technical builds, integrations, testing, and delivery using Agile/Waterfall/hybrid methodologies.

Manage scheduling and delivery of test fixtures and mechanical assemblies, coordinate contractors and cross-functional teams, perform mechanical and PCB assembly/repairs, maintain test station documentation, inventory, equipment tracking, and PO processing, and provide feedback to engineers to improve assembly instructions.

Manage TEAL stockroom operations including shipping/receiving, inventory control, equipment tagging in CATS, shipments between sites, processing repairs/calibrations, ordering consumables via Oracle/JIRA, and supporting logistics/documentation for domestic and international shipments.

The Product Engineer will develop and optimize high-speed optical solutions, collaborate on manufacturing requirements, manage product transitions, and ensure compliance with testing methodologies.

The Advisor, Portfolio Marketing drives global initiatives for high-speed interconnects, creating differentiated portfolio positioning, marketing content, and ensuring alignment with sales and development teams.

Develop integrations between Ciena's enterprise applications using Mulesoft and Oracle SOA, preparing documentation, and collaborating with various teams.

Support customer success and project delivery by planning and tracking project timelines, coordinating internal teams, maintaining documentation, onboarding customers, monitoring feedback, and contributing to process improvements that increase retention and customer satisfaction.

Provide technical support for Blue Planet software, troubleshoot issues, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and maintain customer satisfaction.

Develop and maintain firmware for embedded Linux systems, integrating protocols and security features, collaborating with engineers for production-quality firmware.

Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites and frameworks for carrier-grade networking products. Execute functional, integration, system, regression, and solution-level tests, analyze results, identify root causes, integrate tests into CI pipelines, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure reliability, scalability, and customer-ready deployments.

Lead enterprise Anaplan architecture, define modeling and ALM standards, design integrations (Snowflake, Power BI, ERP/CRM/HR), ensure SOX/compliance, guide model builders, and drive platform roadmap, performance, and governance across FP&A, IT, and business stakeholders.

Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites and frameworks for carrier-grade networking products. Execute functional, integration, system, regression, and solution-level tests; integrate tests into CI pipelines; build and configure test environments; analyze results, identify defects, perform root-cause analysis, and collaborate with development teams to resolve issues.

Design, implement, and verify circuit-pack level power and grounding systems for next-generation optical and Ethernet platforms. Create schematics and layouts, collaborate with hardware, mechanical, suppliers, and manufacturing, run prototype validation and support production handoff.

Design, implement, and automate API and UI tests for Navigator Intelligent Apps using agentic and generative AI. Create AI-enabled test cases, analyze results to find defects, manage CI/CD test execution, and collaborate with development teams to resolve issues and ensure release quality.