Hardware Designer

Location: Ottawa, ON (On-site)About this opportunityAs a member of a dynamic development team, the Intermediate Hardware Designer will be responsible for design, testing and delivery to manufacturing of carrier-grade hardware used for optical line systems capable of 400Gbps and beyond.What You’ll Do Work together with hardware engineers, software engineers and system architects to deliver high-quality designs Coordinate and lead various aspects of board level design, specification, verification, and implementation for embedded transport Define technical specifications to support design concepts, and collaborate in peer specification reviews Interface with component vendors and negotiate design specifications with external suppliers Develop and execute test plans, and review results with peers Support the technology transfer to manufacturing/production testing Support Component Engineering efforts during and after design cycles Develop or guide development of automated product test stationsWhat You Bring Degree in electrical engineering or equivalent coupled with 3+ years' experience in digital, optical component or optical subsystem design Experience with board level development utilizing high speed digital circuits Experience with hardware debugging tools -- analyzers, scopes, emulators Experience using a variety of high-speed lab equipment (e.g. Optical Spectrum Analyzers – optical signal to noise ratio measurements; high speed signal analysis and probing; optical wavelength measurements; bit error rate testing; eye diagram measurements) Assets You May Possess Experience with carrier-grade system requirements and high-speed optical transmission systems Experience with design capture tools (Mentor Graphics -DX Designer) Experience with a variety of optical interfaces and telecommunications standards Experience with high-speed digital devices and RF signal analysis Experience with scripting languages Benefits for full time employees include an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Stock Equity Eligibility, Health and Drug Plan, $500 Wellness Benefit, Dental, Vision, Life, Dependent Life, Disability insurance (STD and LTD), Employee Assistance Program and Paid Time Off.Why join DZS? (Nasdaq: DZSI) is a global leader of access, optical and cloud-controlled software defined solutions. Our software and network innovations are empowering communications service providers to reimagine their EDGE and transform their businesses and network infrastructure to become the experience providers of tomorrow. DZS systems, platforms and services are leveraged by over 1000 service providers globally in over 100 countries and connect to over 70 million homes and businesses and are relied upon by more than 30 of the world's top 50 telecom providers. Mission: DZS solutions are enabling today’s communications service providers to transform into tomorrow’s experience providers. By empowering our customers to reimagine their Access, Subscriber, Optical and Cloud EDGE, we are helping to create a hyper-connected world while enabling our customers to achieve dramatically faster response times and operational efficiencies that allow them to disrupt their markets and build a sustainable competitive EDGE.