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About the role
Ciena is expanding its Interconnects business across China, Taiwan, and the broader Asia region, enabling next-generation AI, cloud, and compute infrastructure. This role provides technical leadership that connects customer requirements with optical interconnect and silicon solutions, influencing product adoption and long-term business growth. The position combines customer-facing engineering engagement with cross-functional collaboration across business development, product management, and engineering teams.
Responsibilities
How you will make an impact:
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Lead pre-sales technical engagement for Ciena’s Interconnects portfolio across hyperscalers, OEM/ODMs, and AI/compute system partners.
Gather ecosystem, competitive, silicon, and optical interconnect insights to inform product lifecycle management and roadmap alignment.
Requirements
The must haves:
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Experience: ~10 years in sales/solutions engineering, high-speed hardware, optical interconnect, silicon bring-up, or datacenter systems engineering.
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Application of DSP/retimer, SERDES, optics/pluggables, AEC/ACC, PCIe, Ethernet, high-speed test equipment, or related technologies.
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Experience working directly with Asia-based hyperscalers, cloud builders, OEMs, or ODMs.
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Utilization of oscilloscopes, BERTs, IBIS-AMI, simulation tools, or signal integrity tools for debugging and validation activities.
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Education: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a similar field.
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Fluent Mandarin and professional English communication skills, including written and spoken communication.
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Documentation, presentation, and communication skills supporting collaboration across engineering, product management, and commercial teams.
Nice to have
Nice to haves:
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Education: Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a similar field.
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Reading proficiency in Traditional Chinese to support Taiwan customer engagement.
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