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You know what your ideal career looks like: a competitive salary, freedom to live your life as you like, and recognition for your accomplishments—all in an inclusive and diverse people-first environment. Our success is driven by a supported, thriving team; this is why Ciena upholds these benefits for all our employees. Ciena empowers you with flexible paid time off, reimbursed and in-house development resources, support for mental and physical well-being, and assets you may need to attain your goals both at and away from work.

How You Will Contribute:

The Pluggable Modems Senior Test Engineer is a key position reporting to the manager of Optical Plugs Test Engineering. As part of the NPI organization, the successful candidate will be responsible for developing and supporting test automation solutions targeted to Ciena’s family of coherent pluggable modems. The role involves collaboration with R&D, supply chain, as well as internal and partner manufacturing teams.

The ideal candidate will be:

• A team player who works collaboratively with cross-functional teams to deliver efficient, maintainable, and expandable test solutions.
• Providing technical expertise and opinion on test hardware and software architecture.
• Working with both internal and external partners to achieve key product performance criteria during the pluggable modem product lifecycle
• Driving towards high yields, manufacturing efficiency and continuous improvement in collaboration with overseas manufacturing.

What Does Ciena Expect of You?

• Participate in development, replication, transfer and support of test systems to overseas manufacturing partners for the purpose of calibrating and testing pluggable modems.
• Drive continuous improvement of test hardware and automation software in collaboration with R&D and manufacturing partners.
  • Enhance fault isolation and troubleshooting tools over the life cycle of products through data mining / correlation.
  • Implement improvements through automation code updates
  • Gauge R/R, station performance tracking and optimization
• Support failure analysis, root cause identification and corrective action implementation of components, sub-systems and field failures
• Support contract manufacturing partners for testing of prototype, pre-production and production runs.
• Mentor and lead the other members of the team.

The Must Haves:

• BS or MS degree in Electronics/Electrical Engineering, Engineering Physics, or Physics,
• Desired: 5+ years optical test experience – components, discrete coherent transmitter, receiver, pluggable modules
• Basic electronics experience, RF knowledge desirable
• Test automation software development (C, C++, C#), MATLAB, Python
• Experience with various optical test instruments – OPM, OSA, VOA, Polarization Controller, etc.
• Database, data analysis tool expertise

Assets:

• Ability to work collaboratively with cross functional teams.
• Ability to influence and partner with diverse internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to provide test hardware and automation software subject matter expertise.
• Technical understanding of optical modem testing and manufacturing processes.
• Strong analytical abilities to make decisions and influence based on technical data.
• Strong communications skills, with ability to clearly articulate technical issues.
• Clear sense of accountability.
• Strong commitment to customer satisfaction
• Ability to travel 10% of time, primarily to Asia

The annual pay range for this position is $77,500 - $164,500 CAD

Pay ranges at Ciena are designed to accommodate variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions, and locations, reflecting our diverse products, industries, and lines of business. Please note that the pay range information provided in this posting pertains specifically to the primary location, which is the top location listed in case multiple locations are available.

Non-Sales employees may be eligible for a discretionary incentive bonus, while Sales employees may be eligible for a sales commission. In addition to competitive compensation, Ciena offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, participation in 401(K) (USA) & DCPP (Canada) with company matching, Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), company-paid holidays, paid sick leave, and vacation time. We also comply with all applicable laws regarding Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence.

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