Technical Solutions Engineer P2

Company: Ciena Corporation
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

In this early-career role, you will support engineering readiness by validating solutions, delivering customer-facing materials, and collaborating across Product Development, Management, Sales Engineering, and Services. You’ll help ensure successful product introductions, demonstrations, trials, and customer engagements. This position sits in the Solutions Engineering & Introduction team, contributing to lab validation and cross-functional delivery in a fast-paced, global setting. You will work in a people-first culture with a focus on growth, well-being, and belonging, applying your technical and communication skills to drive impact.

Pay / Benefits

  • flexible work environment
  • focus on well-being and belonging
  • growth opportunities
  • inclusive culture
  • global collaboration
  • equal opportunity employer

Responsibilities

  • Manage lab assets and maintain optical lab systems to support team requirements
  • Define customer-facing technical presentations, test plans, release notes, and engineering guides
  • Create and validate technical deliverables enabling new product features and solutions
  • Deliver product demonstrations, lab trials, field trials, deployments, and solution tests
  • Capture product issues and customer enhancement requests and route feedback into R&D processes
  • Provide pre-sales and post-sales technical consultation, solution evaluation, design support, and engineering guidance
  • Resolve complex or urgent field issues escalated from Global Technical Support

Key requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Applied Science, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Communications Engineering, or related discipline
  • Good knowledge of telecommunications and optical transport systems with understanding of photonic and optical protocol
  • Organized and detail-oriented; strong collaboration skills
  • Excellent English communication, verbal and written; ability to present to varied audiences
  • Ability to prioritize in a fast-paced, evolving environment
  • Ability to collaborate across multiple time zones and cultures
  • Residence in the United Kingdom and readiness to work extensively in a lab environment
  • collaboration across cultures
  • clear communication
  • prioritization in a fast-paced setting
  • telecommunications and optical transport systems
  • photonic and optical protocols
  • Python (coding)

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Posted: September 14th, 2026