City : Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Category : Interns, Students & Temporary

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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WaveLogic Systems Design Architecture Intern

Why Ciena? 

• We’re a company rooted in people—seeking to create a vibrant and inclusive environment, where everyone feels they can belong.  
• Accelerate your career path by gaining hands-on experience and exposure to the latest technology. Our interns and graduates work on real projects in real time in world class labs. Be a part of tomorrow’s future – today. 

• Mentoring. Networking. Leadership Opportunities. We recognize that the learning doesn’t stop when you leave school - we champion a team environment for development and provide the tools to achieve success. 
• We are big proponents of life-work integration. Our people make a big difference at Ciena, but we want to shine light on their differences outside of working hours too. CienaCares supports non-profit causes important to employees by matching employee financial contributions and dedicating time for volunteering. 

The Opportunity:

8-12 month internship starting January 2025 to December 2025

How You Will Contribute:

As an intern, you will be a contributor to the team, helping with hands on hardware performance testing, including data collection and analysis. You may also get involved with testing some software aspects of our modem products.

You will…

• Assist with Design Verification Testing (performance testing), including optical performance, power consumption, electrical performance.
• Capture data during DVT tests, post-analysis and presentation.
• Automation of software test cases and hands-on testing of features on the optical modules, using the evaluation board, GUI, and python scripting. 
• Identifying issues and driving resolution into the HW & SW design teams.
• Providing feedback on design and helping to drive improvements into the optical module.

What Does Ciena Expect of You?

• A sense of urgency – what’s 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 new technologies and ever-changing market conditions, and endeavour to apply that knowledge to Ciena’s advantage.
• You embrace change – thriving in a diverse environment of ever-changing priorities and sometimes stressful situations.
• The flexibility to work independently with minimal supervision as well as part of a broader team.

The successful candidate will have an excellent mix of abilities including good interpersonal skills, excellent team player, strong hands-on lab skills (or a desire for them!), programming & lab automation underscored by a strong work ethic.

We are looking to train and invest in a diligent & committed student who is willing to ‘fit’ and adapt to a variety of tasks. The team you will be joining is a small focused group of veteran designers & testers who support a wide scope of system test & integration challenges.

The Must Haves:

• Working towards completion of Bachelors or diploma in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Programming or a related field.
• Working knowledge of Python

Assets:

• Hands-on, roll-up-the-sleeves personality.
• Action-oriented, self-starter, organized, able to work both under direction and independently.
• Some coding experience with MATLAB & Java scripting is an asset.
• Some experience or knowledge with lab test equipment.
• Working knowledge of MS Office tool suite (Word, Excel), and working with large data sets (sorting, filtering, graphing).