Lead hardware reliability and lifecycle management at Ciena in Ottawa, guiding packet and optical networking products through complex engineering challenges.

This senior engineering leader manages multidisciplinary hardware teams across development, qualification, manufacturing, sustaining, field support, and end-of-life. The work spans electrical, optical, FPGA, SerDes, memory, interface, power, manufacturing, and product-quality investigations. You will balance customer commitments, product quality, manufacturing readiness, supply continuity, and engineering priorities.

Key Responsibilities:
Lead multidisciplinary teams across complete product lifecycles
Direct reliability engineering and failure investigations
Analyze reliability data and manufacturing metrics




Drive corrective actions for product and customer issues
Improve product quality and engineering effectiveness

Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in engineering or related discipline
10+ years hardware engineering experience
3+ years leading teams, projects, or initiatives
Experience with reliability, qualification, manufacturing, and failure analysis
Ability to lead complex electrical and optical investigations

Bring senior hardware leadership, reliability engineering, and root-cause analysis expertise to Ciena's networking product portfolio in Ottawa.

📌 Senior Hardware Reliability Engineering Manager Ottawa
🏢 Ciena
📍 Ottawa