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What will you do at Ciena as a Serdes Project Manager?
The Wavelogic family of products is widely used in Ciena's optical fiber transmission solutions and is one of the main contributors to Ciena's success in the telecommunications industry. Successful candidates will be joining a vibrant team with a proven track record of success over 30 years of evolution and revolution in the advancement of high-speed circuits used in broadband fiber-optic modems. This team pioneered the introduction of the world's first high-speed DAC and ADC analog macros that ushered in the era of coherent fiber-optic product solutions.
To further strengthen our team, we are looking for a SerDes Project Manager who will be involved in organizing the development of advanced high-speed analog circuits in the latest deep-submicron CMOS and/or BiCMOS technologies. As Project Engineering Manager you will participate in the management of mixed-signal IP projects, working across many technical discipline boundaries including system design, DSP, digital design, analog design, firmware, and characterization plus qualification to industry specs. Responsibilities of the role are outlined below in more detail:
Responsibilities
Management of a complex SERDES development project involving multiple teams across the system, analog, digital, packaging, firmware, and test development.
Key responsibilities will include maintaining a top-level schedule overview accounting for sub-deliverables and interdependencies tasks between the teams
Authority to make technical or priority calls for the sub-teams to protect the schedule and quality as well as to prevent work blockages due to inter-team dependencies
On-going tracking of requirements, schedule, and critical task closure through advanced tools such as Jama, Jira, and MS Project.
Convene regular project reviews to ensure sub-teams have a forum to provide progress updates together and to minute these meetings with appropriate tracked action items.
Provide regular high-level program status updates to management highlighting any concerns such as resourcing levels or issues that need to be resolved outside of program-specific decisions
Participate in the complex block and/or chip planning and architecture studies
Create clear project scope documentation and milestone definitions
Convene project kick-off and regular milestones tracking meetings with cross-functional teams
Maintain project plans and resource reports
Participate in design reviews and ensure that all quality checks are completed
Co-ordinate the production of IP Test Chips
Review silicon characterization reports, and design verification reports
Define and co-ordinate IP product releases
Manage product updates triggered silicon process updates, design updates, and customer feedback
Work toward improving design efficiency and achieving the highest possible quality metrics
What technical experience and personal skills are required for this role?
Electrical or computer engineering, computer science, or other applicable scientific degrees at the BEng/BSc, MEng/MSc, or Ph.D. level.
Familiarity with integrated circuit design and design verification.
Experience leading designs in advanced BiCMOS and/or CMOS technology with a minimum of 7 years of industrial experience.
Familiarity with integrated circuit design and design verification.
Familiarity with the development process for ASIC designs.
Familiarity with Project Management and Planning tasks
Good written and verbal communication skills
Familiarity with MS Project and MS Excel
A highly motivated self-starter, able to work independently, while being a great teammate
Ability to methodically address sophisticated technical problems
Excellent organization and interpersonal skills
A history of successful analog circuit product deliveries.
What additional assets can help me in this role?
Experience with 2.5D or 3D E-M tools such as HFSS or EMX
Experience with team leadership within an analog macro design group
Design experience for complex analog macro-IP solutions using tools such as MatLab and/or C++
Experience with mixed-signal design validation using state-of-the-art probing and test equipment.
The above lists are intended to describe the general nature and level of work, and they are not intended to be a comprehensive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required to be qualified and to be performed by the selected candidate. You will have an opportunity to better understand the role through the interview
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