Hardware Power Engineer - New Grad

Ciena • Ottawa, ON

10d

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. As a Power Hardware Engineer at Ciena, you will play a critical role in designing and delivering high‑performance power solutions that enable the world’s most advanced packet optical transport, data center interconnect, and switching platforms. Working within a highly experienced hardware engineering organization, this role offers hands‑on technical impact, close collaboration across disciplines, and the opportunity to see designs progress from concept through manufacturing and into production.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Engineering degree with work‑term experience in system power and grounding design, power component circuit pack design, and product development lifecycle exposure
• Postgraduate qualification in Electronics or Power Electronics
• Demonstrated project management knowledge and strong work organization skills
• Hands‑on experience with power laboratory test equipment, measurement techniques, and microelectronic power product development
• Familiarity with printed circuit board (PCB) schematic capture and layout tools
• Proven English written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work effectively with mechanical, power, thermal, hardware, software, and systems engineering teams on platform development
• Understanding of buck, boost, flyback, forward, resonant LLC converter topologies, and closed‑loop power supply control
• Ability to perform laboratory activities including soldering and printed circuit board rework
• Experience using multimeters, oscilloscopes, function generators, and power supplies
• Experience with simulation tools such as LTSpice and PSPICE

Nice To Haves

• Work‑term experience in power electronics
• Exposure to communications hardware product development environments
• Familiarity with power, grounding, and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) design standards for Telcordia and data center customers
• Experience with Cadence design tools

Responsibilities

• Develop product‑level power systems, subcomponent power designs, and circuit pack‑level power architectures for next‑generation platforms
• Contribute to high‑performance circuit pack power solutions, including schematic capture and layout collaboration with hardware design primes
• Design and support alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC) power interface modules and platform cooling solutions
• Collaborate with hardware, mechanical, thermal, software, and systems engineering teams to resolve design, performance, and integration challenges
• Partner with external suppliers, procurement, and manufacturing teams to transition power hardware designs into production
• Verify system and subcomponent designs using engineering and production prototypes through hands‑on lab validation

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision plans
• 401(K) (USA) & DCPP (Canada) with company matching
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• company-paid holidays
• paid sick leave
• vacation time
• Paid Family Leave
• other leaves of absence

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level