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About the Role
Ciena is seeking an AI Champion to lead the practical adoption of AI across ASIC engineering workflows. The role focuses on defining scalable AI-driven methodologies to enhance engineering efficiency while maintaining disciplined validation standards.
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Responsibilities
- Drive adoption of AI across ASIC design, verification, and physical design workflows
- Create and implement AI use cases for RTL design, verification, scripting, documentation, and regression analysis
- Develop guidance, workflows, and guardrails for repeatable AI adoption
- Evaluate and integrate AI tools and agentic workflows from internal teams and external vendors
- Establish standardized methodologies for developing reusable AI agents and skills
- Collaborate with engineering, CAD, IT, and methodology teams to prioritize and deploy high value AI applications
- Mentor engineering teams on AI enabled workflows and promote sharing of best practices
Requirements
- 5+ years in ASIC design, verification, or physical design environments
- 2+ years in application of AI agents and skills in engineering workflows
- Experience delivering presentations to management audiences
- Application of project management practices
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Overview
- Ciena is seeking an AI Champion to lead the practical adoption of AI across ASIC engineering workflows, improving productivity, quality, and protection of intellectual property.
- The role focuses on defining scalable AI driven methodologies that enhance engineering efficiency while maintaining disciplined validation standards.
How You Will Make An Impact
- Drive adoption of AI across ASIC design, verification, and physical design workflows
- Create and implement AI use cases for RTL design, verification, scripting, documentation, and regression analysis
- Develop guidance, workflows, and guardrails to enable pragmatic and repeatable AI adoption
- Evaluate and integrate AI tools, applications, and agentic workflows from internal teams and external vendors
- Establish standardized methodologies for developing reusable AI agents and skills
- Collaborate with engineering, CAD, IT, and methodology teams to prioritize and deploy high value AI applications
- Mentor engineering teams on AI enabled workflows and promote sharing of outcomes, learnings, and best practices
The Must Haves
- 5+ years in ASIC design, verification, or physical design environments
- 2+ years in application of AI agents and skills in engineering workflows, including development and deployment of agent based solutions
- Experience delivering presentations to management audiences
- Application of project management practices to support structured and disciplined workflows
Nice To Haves
- Experience with multi agent workflows
Pay Range
- The annual pay range for this position is CAD 109,000 CAD 174,000.
Benefits
- Non Sales employees may be eligible for a discretionary incentive bonus.
- Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401(K)/DCPP with company matching, ESPP, EAP, paid holidays, sick leave, and vacation time.
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