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The Opportunity:

12 month internship starting September 2024 to August 2025

How You Will Contribute:

Ciena's WaveLogic Technologies business is an exciting opportunity to diversify and expand Ciena's addressable market by making its industry-leading coherent optical technology available to a wider range of industry participants, gaining greater access to new geographies and addressing new market segments.

Our Applications Engineering team provides direct in-depth technical support to a range of customers, often related to product integration and trouble-shooting. This highly experienced team has expertise in optics, hardware and software.

As an intern, you will be a contributor to this team, helping with a range of tasks, from hands on hardware performance testing, to special projects or test tools that combine hardware and software low-level design.

You will…

• Own a test tool project that combines hardware and software design. This test tool is intended to be used in the field, to streamline data capture and trouble-shooting at customer sites. We have an idea for a project, and looking for an intern to own it, with support from the team.
• Assist with performance testing, including optical performance, power consumption, electrical performance.
• Reproduce customer issues and driving resolution into the HW & SW design teams.

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 who support a wide scope of system test & integration challenges.

The Must Haves:

• Working towards completion of Bachelors (or higher) degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Interest and aptitude at low-level hardware and programming, ie. Working at the byte level.

Assets:

• Hardware design, including schematic capture and layout
• Hands-on, roll-up-the-sleeves personality.
• Action-oriented, self-starter, organized, able to work both under direction and independently.
• Some coding experience with Python & Java scripting is an asset.
• Some experience or knowledge with lab test equipment.

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