Jobs at Ciena

Designs, tests, calibrates, and verifies coherent optical receiver modem subsystems. Develops MATLAB-based calibration and verification tools, instrumentation drivers, algorithms, unit tests, and factory procedures. Investigates hardware and test-station issues, analyzes wafer, device, modem, and manufacturing data, and improves product yield and throughput. Collaborates with multidisciplinary engineering teams in a research and development laboratory environment.

Supports global treasury operations across EMEA, APAC, and the Americas, including third-party payments, intercompany settlements, cash positioning, liquidity management, forecasting, banking operations, cash-pool administration, treasury-system activities, controls, reconciliations, and audit support. The role requires coordination across multiple countries, currencies, functions, and time zones.

Manage Ciena’s strategic Meta account by developing account strategies, expanding networking solution opportunities, strengthening executive and cross-functional relationships, supporting commercial execution, maintaining forecasts and pipeline visibility, coordinating fulfillment, and delivering strategic business updates. The role requires technology sales experience, complex account management, strong analytical and communication skills, CRM proficiency, and domestic and international travel as needed.

Owns the commercial lifecycle for Japan opportunities, including bid and pricing decisions, RFx responses, P&L analysis, approval submissions, contract negotiations, risk assessment, and deal governance. Provides objective insights on forecasts, customer dynamics, and commercial KPIs while translating strategy between Japan and global teams. Partners with Sales, Finance, Legal, Services, Supply Chain, and Product teams to secure approvals and execute deals.

Oversee treasury operations across the Americas, including domestic and international payments, intercompany settlements, cash positioning, liquidity management, bank-account administration, cash forecasting, treasury systems, controls, reconciliations, and audit support. The role also drives process improvements, banking-cost optimization, and cash visibility while coaching junior staff and supporting U.S. treasury operations.

Contribute to embedded platform and application software for networking products. Responsibilities include coding, high-level design, automated and unit testing, troubleshooting software issues, and collaborating within Agile teams. The role provides hands-on experience with real-time embedded systems, modern development tools, AI-assisted workflows, and software quality improvement while learning from experienced engineers.

Oversee global treasury operations across EMEA, APAC, and the Americas, including international payments, intercompany settlements, cash positioning, liquidity management, cash forecasting, banking operations, cash pooling, treasury systems, controls, reconciliations, and audit support. The role also drives process improvement, banking cost optimization, and team development while ensuring effective operations across multiple currencies and countries.

Leads global People Operations, HR technology, HRIS, and employee services. Owns the HR technology roadmap, HCM systems, AI and automation strategy, data governance, vendors, budgets, and shared-services delivery. Drives process standardization, self-service, employee support quality, system implementations, and responsible AI adoption. Builds high-performing global teams, leads transformation, and partners across HR, IT, Legal, Finance, Privacy, and Security.

Leads Ciena’s global, multi-year supply chain strategy and future-state architecture. Defines network, manufacturing, capacity, sourcing, inventory, logistics, resilience, and partner strategies; develops strategic roadmaps, scenarios, investment cases, and business recommendations. Partners with senior leaders across product, finance, engineering, sales operations, and other functions to align supply chain capabilities with growth, customer, and financial objectives.

Lead complex UX and product design initiatives across multiple product areas. Analyze user needs, business requirements, workflows, and pain points; audit existing products; conduct user research and usability testing; evolve cross-portfolio UX guidelines; collaborate with developers, product managers, and stakeholders; and mentor designers while balancing user, technical, and business needs.

Leads strategic account growth and complex solution sales for Ciena’s Google account across APAC. Manages executive relationships, account strategy, contract execution, opportunity closure, revenue, margins, and fulfillment. Coordinates cross-functional teams across sales, operations, product, engineering, and regional business units. Identifies opportunities within Google, Google Fiber, and Alphabet subsidiaries while maintaining Salesforce reporting and communicating business performance to leadership.

Leads commercial management across the Americas, overseeing complex deal strategy, pricing, revenue models, governance, risk mitigation, negotiations, and post-award oversight. Partners with Sales, Finance, Legal, Operations, Services, and Product teams to drive profitable growth and compliant execution. Represents commercial strategy in executive customer engagements and builds a high-performing regional Commercial Management organization.

Supports Sales and Global Partner Organization teams through RFx bids, channel programs, commercial proposals, pricing, P&L analysis, risk assessments, contract approvals, and revenue recognition. Coordinates cross-functional workflows, manages bid registers, ensures governance compliance, supports negotiations, and analyzes commercial trends. Requires strong analytical, organizational, communication, project management, and financial skills while working independently across global teams and tight deadlines.

Leads customer-facing sales engineering for India-West accounts, translating network, architecture, and operations requirements into designs, configurations, proposals, quotes, and RFP responses. Advises customers on optical, routing, switching, SDN, converged architectures, and Adaptive Networking solutions. Builds strategic technical relationships, supports product enhancement discussions, introduces new network concepts, and delivers technical presentations while collaborating with Sales, Marketing, and Product Line Management.

Lead analog layout for high-speed ADC, DAC, SerDes, and mixed-signal ICs from feasibility and floorplanning through physical verification and tapeout. Define implementation strategies, coordinate contributors, review performance and reliability tradeoffs, and drive closure of DRC, LVS, ERC, antenna, BUMP, EM/IR, and PERC checks. Collaborate with circuit, CAD, and AI/ML engineers while mentoring junior layout engineers and advancing automation, PCell development, and advanced-node CMOS implementation.

Plans and balances supply against customer demand, production schedules, forecasts, and inventory targets. Works with OEM suppliers to resolve shortages, manage capacity constraints, support on-time delivery, and communicate risks and commitments. Performs what-if and risk/buy analyses, manages purchase order coverage, and oversees supplier metrics including delivery, lead time, inventory, and safety stock. Collaborates cross-functionally and supports procurement, NPI, and finished-goods stocking strategies.

Lead process integration and development of advanced optoelectronic devices for silicon photonics platforms. Responsibilities include defining device and process requirements, evaluating fabrication feasibility and reliability, partnering with semiconductor foundries, analyzing material and failure data, resolving complex process issues, managing engineering changes, and collaborating across design, test, manufacturing, and reliability teams to deliver robust, manufacturable high-speed photonic devices.

Develop physical layouts for analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits under experienced-engineer guidance. Translate schematics into manufacturable layouts, perform DRC and LVS verification, optimize area, matching, symmetry, parasitics, and signal integrity, and collaborate with analog designers to resolve issues. The role includes technical training, design reviews, documentation, and continuous improvement while building semiconductor layout and verification expertise.

Represents Ciena’s Services portfolio across EMEA, aligning regional customer, market, commercial, regulatory, and delivery needs with global portfolio decisions. Develops account and services strategies, leads portfolio reviews, identifies growth and renewal opportunities, coordinates cross-portfolio guidance, and influences global roadmaps, enablement, and account planning.

Manage global financial risk and corporate finance activities, primarily foreign exchange hedging. Identify and quantify exposures, execute FX transactions, prepare hedge accounting and risk reports, analyze hedge effectiveness, support capital markets and debt financing, assist with insurance activities, and coordinate treasury operations, compliance, and controls.