Job Description

Since 1992, Ciena has been driven by a relentless pursuit of network innovation. We believe in a network that grows smarter, more agile, and more responsive every day. This means that when you digitally interact in your world - picking up the phone, streaming video, texting a friend or loved one - your interactions are being enabled by Ciena technologies. Ciena makes your social / entertainment / business existence REAL.

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified below and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!

Software Engineer Systems

We're looking for highly motivated and hardworking software engineers who are passionate about engineering design solution and solving complex issues. You will be responsible for feature design, coding and unit testing for an embedded photonics product. This role is phenomenal opportunity for software engineers who are outstanding team players and have excellent verbal and written communication skills. Position requires proficient troubleshooting and problem solving skills.

Skills

• Strong knowledge of C++ and object oriented design
• Strong knowledge of embedded real-time software development (VXWORKS/RT-LINUX)
• Strong knowledge of telecom product architectures.
• Strong software design, coding, testing, and documentation skills.
• Ability to document progress and results.
• Experience in Photonics platform is good to have.
• Ability to muti-task on multiple projects.

Essential Responsibilities

• Understand hardware functionality and software to control intelligent devices in an optical Photonics product.
• Candidate will also develop software subsystems for Inter-Process communication, Synchronized system startup, and Information Model persistence.
• Understand multi-processor high reliable software system architectures.
• Full life-cycle responsibility for embedded software including requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, and documentation.
• Attend meetings, report progress, and interact closely with team members and other teams as required.

Desired Characteristics

• Capability to give technical leadership to small team of software engineers (mentorship)
• Independent self-starter
• Strong commitment to product excellence
• Excellent communications skills

Education and Relevant Experience

• Bachelors/Masters in Computers/IT/Electronics(masters preferred)
• Technical experience with 3-8 years experience in software development.

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