Senior Product Applications Engineer - Interconnects

Ciena
Ottawa
Workplace: OnsiteFull time112,300 - 179,300Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Teamwork","Problem-solving"]

Join the Interconnects Product Applications Engineering team to design, test, and showcase high-speed interconnect solutions. Lead technical guidance with PLM, develop reference designs and APIs, and engage with customers onsite in Ottawa to drive design wins and issue resolution across hardware, embedded software, and optics domains.

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Senior Product Applications Engineer - Interconnects

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Job Summary

Join the Interconnects Product Applications Engineering team to design, test, and showcase high-speed interconnect solutions. Lead technical guidance with PLM, develop reference designs and APIs, and engage with customers onsite in Ottawa to drive design wins and issue resolution across hardware, embedded software, and optics domains.
Location: Ottawa
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead technical guidance with Product Line Management to support design wins and articulate module and component technologies.
  • •Develop reference designs (hardware and software) and define API suites that accelerate customer integration.
  • •Facilitate technical working sessions with customer engineering teams, document issues and drive timely resolution.
  • •Perform lab testing to reproduce customer issues and collaborate with R&D to find solutions.
  • •Deliver on-site customer support as needed to troubleshoot and expedite integration activities.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: 112,300 - 179,300
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kEsppPaid Holidays

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of design experience in a relevant discipline (hardware, embedded software, optics or system integration) and ideally this experience is in optical/electrical module technologies.
  • •Demonstrated problem-solving and analytical capability through first-product bring-up.
  • •Strong communication and teamwork skills in fast-paced technical environments.
  • •Proven ability to collaborate effectively across engineering and customer-facing teams.
  • •Nice to have: knowledge of optical module components such as lasers, DSPs, TIAs, and optical receivers.
Experience:8+ yearsOptical communicationsHigh-speed connectivityInterconnects
Skills:CommunicationTeamworkProblem-solving
Tech Stack:DSPSerDesTIAsOptical modulesAPIHardwareEmbedded software

Company Brief

Ciena
Provides networking systems, software, and services that enable service providers, cloud operators, and enterprises to deliver high-capacity connectivity and adaptive network solutions worldwide.
Industry: Networking Equipment
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Hanover, United States
Founded: 1992
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