Sales Engineer - Interconnect

Ciena is expanding its Interconnects business across China, Taiwan, and the broader Asia region, enabling next-generation AI, cloud, and compute infrastructure. This role provides technical leadership that connects customer requirements with optical interconnect and silicon solutions, influencing product adoption and long-term business growth. The position combines customer-facing engineering engagement with cross-functional collaboration across business development, product management, and engineering teams.

How you will make an impact:

• Lead pre-sales technical engagement for Ciena’s Interconnects portfolio across hyperscalers, OEM/ODMs, and AI/compute system partners.

• Drive lab bring-up, debugging, interoperability validation, configuration, and performance testing activities.

• Translate customer system architectures and requirements into technical solution recommendations and product roadmap input.

• Guide complex design-win opportunities from evaluation through production in partnership with business development and account teams.

• Serve as the primary technical interface for proof-of-concepts, interoperability events, compliance activities, and early deployments.

• Deliver technical workshops, product demonstrations, architecture reviews, and executive-level technical presentations.

• Gather ecosystem, competitive, silicon, and optical interconnect insights to inform product lifecycle management and roadmap alignment.

The must haves:

• Experience: ~10 years in sales/solutions engineering, high-speed hardware, optical interconnect, silicon bring-up, or datacenter systems engineering.

• Application of DSP/retimer, SERDES, optics/pluggables, AEC/ACC, PCIe, Ethernet, high-speed test equipment, or related technologies.

• Experience working directly with Asia-based hyperscalers, cloud builders, OEMs, or ODMs.

• Utilization of oscilloscopes, BERTs, IBIS-AMI, simulation tools, or signal integrity tools for debugging and validation activities.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a similar field.

• Fluent Mandarin and professional English communication skills, including written and spoken communication.

• Documentation, presentation, and communication skills supporting collaboration across engineering, product management, and commercial teams.

Nice to haves:

• Education: Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a similar field.

• Reading proficiency in Traditional Chinese to support Taiwan customer engagement.