Embedded Software Engineer – Co-op

Enrolled in a bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer or electrical engineering, computer science, or similar disciplines
Experience with C or C++

Design, implement, and maintain real-time embedded platform and application software for several of Ciena’s flagship products
Work on functional areas ranging from low level bit flipping drivers to high level software state machines for interfacing with external applications
Develop drivers for proprietary and 3rd party ASICs, FPGAs, and other hardware components
Create hardware/software interfaces to provide bridging of various abstraction layers
Implement fault and alarms subsystems to detect, report and maintain defects and manage their hysteresis and co-relations
Develop system applications such as traffic/equipment protection, performance monitoring, etc.
Create SDKs that abstract the underlying low-level software and hardware to facilitate platform application developments and integration

Developing software for embedded systems or telecom products
Understanding of CPU hardware architectures, hardware functional specifications, hardware timing diagrams, device data sheets
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, and the like
Debuggers and tools (e.g., gdb), especially for troubleshooting embedded systems in user space and kernel space
High-level programming and scripting languages such as Java, Python, Perl, Tcl, bash
YANG modeling language and toolchains
Software development methodologies such as Agile or Waterfall
Familiarity with datacom and telecom concepts such as DWDM, SONET/SDH, OTN, Ethernet, OSI Model, TCP/IP, MPLS