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What will you do at Ciena as a Software Engineer?

Within Ciena’s Converged Packet Optical family of products, we are looking for newly graduated candidates who will be enthusiast to work on a highly dynamic environment on Ciena’s Agile and Next Generation Programmable Optical Platform.

The Responsibilities:

• Develop embedded card software on a next generation optical network platform.
• Participating in all stages of software development - requirements analysis, design and prototyping, implementation, integration testing, and eventually maintenance support.
• Troubleshoot hardware and software, as well as performance issues. Work with hardware, software, verification and system engineering teams to identify root cause of issue;
• Help to investigate and collect information to resolve process, design and field issues found on current or previous designs;
• Identifying software performance improvements through test driven development, automated unit testing, and comprehensive integration testing;
• Engage with Product Owners and System Architects to evolve software applications adopting new features and technologies without compromising performance
• Understand the software architecture, in order to improve resiliency, debuggability and maintainability.
  

What technical experience and/or professional and personal skills are required for this role?

• A minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Computer system Engineering, Software Engineering or equivalent degree
• Software development expertise, particularly large-scale real time embedded software development in C/C++.
• Ability to understand uP Hardware architectures, Hardware Functional Specifications and Hardware Timing Diagrams
• Capable on delivering on multiple parallel priorities.
• Must be fast learner with excellent debugging skills.
• Familiarity with VxWork/Linux development environment and real time OS ie. VxWork/QNX/Linux
• Familiarity with developing software on multi-processor, real time multi-taskings, highly concurrent systems (good knowledge of mutual exclusion, synchronization, interrupt handling, inter-process communication, etc.)
• Experience in C & Python programming language
• Experience with design and development tools such as Git, Eclipse, JIRA, GDB, etc.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot and perform fault isolation and usage of source code debug tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills to present ideas and coordinate troubleshooting.
• Excellent organization skills to manage time, resources, and priorities.
• Independent self-starter and committed to delivering on aggressive deadlines.

Comfortable in a team environment while still taking accountability and working independently as needed.

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