THW Client Co-op (Summer 2025)

Ciena is committed to our people-first philosophy. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a personalized and flexible work environment that empowers an individual's passions, growth, wellbeing and belonging. We're a technology company that leads with our humanity-driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.

Why Ciena?

• We're a company rooted in people-seeking to create a vibrant and inclusive environment, where everyone feels they can belong.
• Accelerate your career path by gaining hands-on experience and exposure to the latest technology. Our interns and graduates work on real projects in real time in world class labs. Be a part of tomorrow's future - today.
• Mentoring. Networking. Leadership Opportunities. We recognize that the learning doesn't stop when you leave school - we champion a team environment for development and provide the tools to achieve success.
• We are big proponents of life-work integration. Our people make a big difference at Ciena, but we want to shine light on their differences outside of working hours too. CienaCares supports non-profit causes important to employees by matching employee financial contributions and dedicating time for volunteering.

The Opportunity:

4 month work term: May - August 2025

How You Will Contribute:

As a successful candidate, you will be working within the ASIC IP team with other design and verification engineers, performing digital ASIC design and verification of the Client sub-systems and cores.

The Client team crafts, develops, and tests the client protocol mapping IP of Ciena's industry leading Wavelogic coherent engine Chipsets. Wavelogic ASICs are widely used in Ciena products, and they are one of the main contributors to Ciena's success.

During your coop term in our team, you will learn about many aspects of the digital ASIC development such as our design and verification environment, prototype development, and development automation. You will be assigned well defined tasks that will allow you to contribute to our team and broaden your knowledge and gain experience in optical networking and digital ASIC development.

Primary Duties and responsibilities:

• RTL design and verification of digital blocks, cores, and subsystems for ASIC products and FPGA-based validation. You will gain in-depth knowledge of many communications standards from IEEE 802.3, ITU, and OIF, as well as understanding system wide concepts.
• Work as a team member that is responsible for the design and verification of complex digital blocks and subsystems
• Implement and verify digital designs using System Verilog/UVM

What Does Ciena Expect of You?

• Integrity - you hold yourself to the highest level of personal and professional standards of conduct.
• A commitment to innovation - you continually seek to learn, understand new technologies and ever-changing market conditions, and endeavor to apply that knowledge to Ciena's advantage.
• The flexibility to work independently with minimal supervision as well as part of a broader team.

The Must Haves:

• Good academic standing in a Bachelor's degree program in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering
• Previous experience with ASIC or FPGA development, as well as knowledge of and experience using System Verilog, Verilog, VHDL and Python
• Strong verbal and technical writing skills
• Self-motivated, and the ability to work independently as well as in a team environment

Assets:

• Knowledge of OTN, Ethernet, and other Optical Networking standards
• Strong problem solving and debugging skills
• Experience working in a Linux environment

Compensation and Benefits (Students)

The pay range for this position is $26.50 - $37.00

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.

In addition to competitive compensation, Ciena offers students access to the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), company-paid holidays, paid sick leave, and vacation pay as required by applicable laws.