# Lead Analog Layout Engineer

As the global leader in high-speed connectivity, Ciena builds the critical infrastructure powering the AI era. We’re a technology company shaping the future of networking, guided by innovation, integrity, and collaboration. Through development opportunities, meaningful work, and flexibility, Ciena supports growth and well-being—on and off the job. Connect with a career that matters. The Lead Analog Layout Engineer shapes the high-speed silicon behind Ciena's WaveLogic coherent optical communications products by owning critical analog and mixed-signal layouts from feasibility through tapeout. This hands-on individual-contributor technical leadership role sets layout direction, coordinates delivery with circuit designers and layout contributors, and advances implementation in advanced CMOS technologies. The role builds on more than 30 years of team innovation in high-speed ADC and DAC macros for coherent optical transmission while extending capabilities into high-speed SerDes. How you will make an impact: Own assigned layout projects from feasibility and floorplanning through implementation, physical verification, integration, and tapeout readiness. Define project scope, implement

- **Id**: 4131243
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ciena-lead-analog-layout-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: inferred_payroll_markers
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T00:16:10Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T00:16:10Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5365
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Network Equipment, Optical Communications

## Company

- **Id**: 4473578
- **Name**: Ciena
- **Domain**: ceanatech.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/ciena-3>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **Cadence Virtuoso** — Optional: no
- **Siemens Calibre** — Optional: no
- **Ansys Totem** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T02:28:20Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: seen:0, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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