Embedded Software Engineer Co-Op (Fall 2023)

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What will you do at Ciena?
Ciena’s 6500 family of products unlocks the network’s full potential—leveraging advanced coherent optics, automated OTN, packet and SONET/SDH switching, control plane, and unified network management—to help network operators scale, manage, and differentiate their services.
Join The 6500 Team In Delivering These Optical Ethernet Network Solutions
Optical networks continue to aggressively move towards Layer 0/1/2 converged infrastructures.

• Hybrid Layer 0/1/2 switching (OTN/Packet)
• Triple Play, MSO and wireless transport oriented solutions
• Next Generation optical transport solutions

Responsibilities

• Develop applications which extend the capabilities of the 6500 system/platform
• Development of embedded, real-time software for telecommunications systems
• Coding and testing of software
• Support of testing activities in the release where feature is delivered

General Activities

• Aid product support team when required
• The activities for this position will involve working as part of a design team developing on-switch applications and OAM software features to support Optical/Ethernet based initiatives

Collaboration with stakeholders

• Collaborating with other design teams and support organizations
• Working closely with Senior Designers who will provide mentoring and coaching

Areas of impact

• Communication
• Innovation
• Scripting and Embedded C programming
• Contributing to your team
• Problem Solving and analysis

Experience

• This placement is for a 4, 8, 12, or 16-month co-op/internship beginning January 2023. An 8 month or longer placement is preferred, but not a requirement.
• 2nd year or greater in an Engineering or Computer Science Bachelor’s degree, preferably with prior co-op experience in related fields.

Skills
One or more skills in the following areas would be an asset:

• Linux development environment
• YANG modeling language and toolchains
• Automation and Test
• Messaging interfaces Netconf, REST/HTTP, gRPC
• Agile development methodologies
• Python, embedded C, C++
• Design and development tools such as: Git, Eclipse, JIRA, Confluence, GDB, Yocto
• Real-time OS and embedded systems

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