City : Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Category : Engineering

Industry : Telecommunications

Employer : Ciena

Ciena is committed to our people-first philosophy. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a personalized and flexible work environment that empowers an individual’s passions, growth, wellbeing and belonging. We’re a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.

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How You Will Contribute:

In our collaborative and supportive environment, we design, implement, and maintain real-time embedded platform and application software for several of Ciena’s flagship products. Our functional areas span from low level bit flipping drivers to high level software state machines for interfacing with external applications:

• Linux and VxWorks kernels and base software components
• Drivers for proprietary and 3rd party ASICs, FPGAs, and other hardware components.
• Hardware/software interface to provide bridging of various abstraction layers.
• Fault and alarms subsystems to detect, report and maintain defects and manage their hysteresis and co-relations.
• System applications such as traffic/equipment protection, performance monitoring, etc.
• Software Development Kits that abstract the underlying low-level software and hardware to facilitate platform application developments and integration.

What Does Ciena Expect of You?

• A sense of dedication – what is important to the customer is equally important to you. You make getting things done a priority.
• Integrity – you hold yourself to the highest level of personal and professional standards of conduct.
• A commitment to innovation – you continually seek to learn, understand modern technologies and ever-changing market conditions, and strive to apply that knowledge to Ciena’s advantage.
• You embrace change – thriving in a diverse environment of ever-changing priorities and sometimes complex situations.
• The flexibility to work with minimal supervision as well as part of a nurturing team.

The Must Haves:

• bachelor’s degree in computer or electrical engineering, computer science, or similar disciplines
• Experience with C or C++

Assets:

• Developing software for embedded systems or telecom products
• Understanding of CPU hardware architectures, hardware functional specifications, hardware timing diagrams, device data sheets
• Understanding of real-time operating systems and embedded systems
• Software development tools such as git, BitBucket, Gerrit, Jira, Confluence etc.
• Unit test frameworks such as Unity, Google Test, JUnit
• Debuggers and tools (e.g., gdb), especially for troubleshooting embedded systems in user space and kernel space
• High-level programming and scripting languages such as Java, Python, Perl, Tcl, bash
• Software development methodologies such as Agile or Waterfall
• Familiarity with datacom and telecom concepts such as DWDM, SONET/SDH, OTN, Ethernet, OSI Model, TCP/IP