Embedded Software Engineer Co-Op
📌Ottawa, Canada 🇨🇦
⏱︎ internship
🧙♂️ entry-level
💰 24.5
on-site
How You Will Contribute
Our team design and implement real-time embedded software for Ciena’s flagship product – optical coherent modem which is to be integrated into multiple internal and external platforms. Functional areas range from register level bit drivers to high level software state machines for interfacing with external applications:
- Drivers - to configure and maintain in-house and 3rd party ASICs, FPGAs and other hardware components.
- HSI (hardware/software interface) – to provide bridging of various abstraction layers.
- Fault and alarms subsystems - to detect, report and maintain defects and manage their hysteresis and co-relations.
- System application such as traffic/equipment protection, performance monitoring, etc.
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System provisioning / configuration in conformance of telecom standarda such as OTN, Ethernet, etc.
4, 8, or 12 Month Term: September 2025 - August 2026
Key Responsibilities
- Development of embedded, real-time software for telecommunications systems
- Coding and testing of software
- Support of testing activities in the release where feature is delivered
- Working closely with Senior Designers who will provide mentoring and coaching
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Collaborating with other design teams and support organizations
- Problem Solving and analysis
- Contributing to your team
- Innovation
- Communication
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Scripting and Embedded C programming
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2nd year or greater in an Engineering or Computer Science Bachelor’s degree, preferably with prior co-op experience in related fields.
One or more skills in the following areas would be an asset:
- Embedded C, C++, Python
- Real-time OS and embedded systems
- Agile development methodologies
- Messaging interfaces Netconf, REST/HTTP, gRPC
- Design and development tools such as: Git, Eclipse, JIRA, Confluence, GDB, Yocto
- YANG modeling language and toolchains
- Linux development environment
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Automation and Test
The pay range for this position is $24.50-$33.00
Pay ranges at Ciena are designed to accommodate variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions, and locations, reflecting our diverse products, industries, and lines of business. Please note that the pay range information provided in this posting pertains specifically to the primary location, which is the top location listed in case multiple locations are available.
In addition to competitive compensation, Ciena offers students access to the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), company-paid holidays, paid sick leave, and vacation pay as required by applicable laws.
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Senior Embedded Software Engineer
@ Embedd 
What we're looking for
At embedd.it, we power hardware-software integration in embedded devices. We turn fragmented semiconductor chip data into configurable digital twins, then deterministically generate code, tests, and documentation – making integration faster, cheaper, and resilient to supply chain shocks.
We’re looking for a true legend – someone with abstract thinking and deep expertise in low-level software development. You’ll build vendor-agnostic tooling for MCU and peripheral integration to solve hardware-software integration once and for all. We work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generation, compilers, and machine learning. It’s your chance to help redefine how low-level development is done.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture of the driver structures and system layout
- Define scalable patterns for cross-architectural integration across bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, and other environments
- Deconstruct complex SoC device trees and translate hardware descriptions into structured internal models for automated reasoning
- Partner with the ML team to shape data and annotation models for AI-driven data-extraction tooling
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in embedded systems development, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Familiarity with firmware configuration, SoC bring-up, and system-level debugging
- Hands-on experience with code generation tools, or low-level compiler/decompiler/emulator technologies
- Strong background in embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, debuggers, and build systems
- Python or scripting for automation and tooling is a plus
- Experience with functional-safety standards is a plus
Why embedd.it?
- Dynamic, venture-backed team of engineers challenging the status quo 🚀
- Work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generators, compilers, and ML 🤖
- Unusual challenges requiring out-of-the-box abstract thinking 🧠
- Competitive compensation: cash + equity 💰
- Remote work possible 🌍
About Us
embedd.it is a UK-based startup reinventing embedded development. Our platform transforms unstructured semiconductor data into structured digital twins, enabling automatic generation of drivers, tests, and documentation. We're building a single, traceable source of truth to make integration fast, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof.
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