AI Champion

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. This position plays a critical role in identifying high-impact AI applications across design, verification, and physical implementation.

Please note that this position is based in our Ottawa office and requires in-person attendance five days a week.

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:

• Experience : 5+ years in ASIC design, verification, or physical design environments
• Experience: 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

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Pay Range:

The annual pay range for this position is C$109,000- C$ 174,000.