Digital Senior SerDes Design Engineer

Ciena•Ottawa, ON

About The Position

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. The Wavelogic family of products are widely used in Ciena's optical fiber transmission solutions and are one of the main contributors to Ciena's success in the telecommunications industry. To further strengthen our team, we are looking for an enthusiastic digital design engineer who will be involved in the design of these products, working within a team of digital design engineers, verification engineers and architects.

Requirements

Electrical or computer engineering, or other applicable scientific degree at the BEng/BSc or MEng/MSc level.
Proficiency above the intermediate level with use of System Verilog for design.
A highly motivated self-starter, able to work independently, while being a team player.
Ability to methodically solve complex technical problems.
Excellent organization, written and oral (English) communication skills.
Familiarity with digital (including formal) verification methods.
Experience with digital design synthesis, STA, timing closure and asynchronous clock crossing.
Good understanding of timing/power/area analysis and trade-offs.

Nice To Haves

Experience with digital silicon design backend process.
Experience with digital design for low power.
Experience with DSP design.
Knowledge of industry standards such as IEEE, Ethernet, or OIF standards for optical communication.
Experience with using GIT for source code management and revision tracking.
Experience with using Jira for schedule planning, assignment tracking and bug reporting.
Familiarity with programming languages such as Python, Make, bash, object-oriented programming, C, C++, System C.

Responsibilities

Propose innovative solutions, in order to design power and area optimized functional blocks for the Wavelogic family of products.
Read and understand the architecture and functional requirements specification document(s) and communicate and collaborate with systems engineers and architects.
Produce an implementation specification document and have it reviewed by your team, architects, analog designers if applicable.
Creation and integration of new and existing RTL and/or C source code, algorithms and functions.
Designer testing of your code as well as debugging of your code during simulation and regression verification.
Assist the verification team in determining coverage and provide design assertions and waivers as needed.
Crafting timing constraints for your code, and will participate in synthesis log reviews, constraint reviews, timing report analysis, layout and backend reviews.
Lab validation of the product and its prototype if applicable.
Report on status updates on a regular basis.