Senior Hardware Engineer: High‑Speed Board Validation

Ciena Corporation; New Providence, Northern (NJ, KY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 159,000; Full time

Job summary

Ciena in New Providence, New Jersey, is seeking a hands-on Hardware Engineer to validate designs, perform board bring-up, and troubleshoot in a lab using oscilloscopes, analyzers, and power supplies.

You will review schematics for analog and digital correctness, identify risks in power integrity and layout, and collaborate with design teams to improve reliability and testability; 3+ years of board bring-up and a degree in Electrical Engineering are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering.
• 3+ years of board bring-up and prototype validation.
• Solid understanding of analog and digital electronics.
• Ability to read and review schematics.
• Experience with lab instrumentation (oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, DMMs).
• Familiarity with interfaces such as SPI, I2C, UART, Ethernet, PCIe is a plus.
• Scripting in Python or similar for lab workflows.

Responsibilities

• Review analog and digital schematics for correctness and design alignment.
• Identify risks in power integrity, signal integrity, and layout constraints.
• Provide actionable feedback to improve reliability and manufacturability.
• Perform board bring-up for new boards and prototypes.
• Debug power, clocking, interfaces, and system-level issues.
• Execute root-cause analysis of hardware failures.
• Document lab findings and prepare debug reports.

Skills

Hardware engineering

Board bring-up

Schematic review

Oscilloscope & lab instrumentation

Python scripting

Power integrity

Signal integrity

Debugging

Power electronics exposure

PCB layout familiarity

EDA tools experience

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium

Cadence

KiCad

OrCAD

Job description

Ciena in New Providence, New Jersey, is seeking a hands-on Hardware Engineer to validate designs, perform board bring-up, and troubleshoot in a lab using oscilloscopes, analyzers, and power supplies.

You will review schematics for analog and digital correctness, identify risks in power integrity and layout, and collaborate with design teams to improve reliability and testability; 3+ years of board bring-up and a degree in Electrical Engineering are required.