STOIC Firmware Designer Intern

4 weeks ago


Remote, Oregon, United States Ciena Full time

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 2024

How You Will Contribute:

This is an intern position, so expectations and responsibilities will be proportional to education and experience. Successful candidate will be teamed with experienced developer(s) and perform activities with guidance. All development activities are on a bare metal CPU and written in C on custom coherent optical modem.

Examples of responsibilities are:

  • Learn development environment & processes: Linux, git, bitbucket, JIRA, lab (load software & firmware on product and simulators), code and document inspections, and testing.
  • Debug/address specific issues – including reproduction, resolution, test and inspections.
  • Implement software enhancements, from adding new test/debug commands to enabling new coherent modulation types – including design, coding, documenting, testing and inspections.

The Must Haves:

  • Working towards completion of Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering
  • C programming language experience
  • Good knowledge of embedded systems, drivers, mutual exclusion, synchronization, interrupt handling, inter-process communication, etc.
  • Positive work attitude, highly motivated and an ability to seek out answers with a willingness to learn and work independently
  • Strong verbal and technical writing skills
  • Collaborates well in a team environment

Assets:

  • Familiarity with optical modulation concepts such as QPSK, QAM
  • Low-level Real-Time Software/Firmware Development
  • Ability to understand CPU Hardware architectures and Timing Diagrams
  • Bare Metal (No OS), Linux
  • Linux as a software development environment
  • Control algorithms such as PI, PID, LQR, etc.
  • Device Driver and/or chip configuration/monitoring
  • Digital Signal Processing, ADC, DAC, FFT, IFFT, various time/frequency domain filters

At Ciena, we are committed to building and fostering an environment in which our employees feel respected, valued, and heard. Ciena values the diversity of its workforce and respects its employees as individuals. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination.

Ciena is anEqual Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

If contacted in relation to a job opportunity, please advise Ciena of any accommodation measures you may require.



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