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As the global leader in high-speed connectivity, Ciena is committed to a people-first approach. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a flexible work environment that empowers individual growth, well-being, and belonging. We’re a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.

Join a team developing real-time embedded software for flagship networking products. This opportunity provides exposure to platform and application software spanning hardware interfaces, system services, and embedded application development. Contributions help enable reliable, scalable software capabilities across multiple product areas.

How you will make an impact

• Design, implement, and maintain real-time embedded platform and application software.
• Develop hardware and software interfaces that bridge abstraction layers.
• Build fault and alarm subsystems to detect, report, and manage defects.
• Create system applications for traffic protection, equipment protection, and performance monitoring.
• Develop platform interfaces that abstract low-level software and hardware components.

The must haves

• Education: Enrolled in a bachelor’s or master's degree in computer or electrical engineering, computer science, or similar disciplines
• Experience: Previous internship, co-op, or applied project experience relevant to the role.
• Coding with C or C++
• High-level programming and scripting languages such as Python or bash
• Knowledge of software revision control systems such as git
• Familiarity with software design patterns (e.g., blocking vs non-blocking, multithreading)

Nice to haves

• Developing software for embedded systems or telecom products
• Understanding of real-time operating systems and embedded systems
• Software development tools such as git, BitBucket, Gerrit, Jira, etc.
• Unit test frameworks such as Google Test, JUnit, Robot, PyTest, Unity and the like
• Debuggers and tools (e.g., gdb), especially for troubleshooting embedded systems
• Software development methodologies such as Agile or Waterfall
• Bare metal programming

Pay Range: The annual pay range for this role is $68,800 - $109,800

Pay ranges at Ciena are designed to accommodate variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions, and locations, reflecting our diverse products, industries, and lines of business. Please note that the pay range information provided in this posting pertains specifically to the primary location, which is the top location listed in case multiple locations are available.