Senior Staff Hardware Engineer - Optical

About Marvell

Marvell’s semiconductor solutions are the essential building blocks of the data infrastructure that connects our world. Across enterprise, cloud and AI, and carrier architectures, our innovative technology is enabling new possibilities. 

At Marvell, you can affect the arc of individual lives, lift the trajectory of entire industries, and fuel the transformative potential of tomorrow. For those looking to make their mark on purposeful and enduring innovation, above and beyond fleeting trends, Marvell is a place to thrive, learn, and lead. 

Your Team, Your Impact

AI’s next breakthrough depends on more than compute—it depends on how efficiently data moves. As AI clusters scale out across racks and data centers, optical connectivity becomes essential to delivering the bandwidth, power efficiency, and performance these systems demand.

Join Marvell’s Optics team and help engineer the hardware that makes that connectivity possible. Our platforms bring together high-speed silicon photonics, transmit and receive amplifiers, controller ASICs, Marvell digital signal processors, and embedded firmware to create highly integrated optical solutions.

Our team owns the design, verification, and validation of these components, including system-level testing of hardware, firmware, and control loops across operating conditions. You will work alongside specialists across these disciplines and carry products from initial concept through new product introduction.

What You Can Expect

As a Senior Staff Hardware Engineer, you will lead hardware platform development for integrated optical transceiver engines supporting high-speed fiber-optic communications.

Your decisions will shape how advanced semiconductor devices are powered, interconnected, characterized, and prepared for production. You will translate complex electrical and system requirements into robust hardware, resolve challenging analog and RF issues, and build the platforms that enable teams to validate optical performance with confidence.

This is an opportunity to combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership at a company advancing optical connectivity for AI and cloud infrastructure. You will influence design direction, guide cross-functional decisions, and see your work progress from the first schematic to production readiness.

• Lead Optical module and test platform hardware development from concept through NPI. Define and deliver integrated optical engines’ test platforms, including device-under-test (DUT) cards, interposers, sockets, and handler boards.
• Own critical design decisions. Drive schematic capture, PCB and substrate layout reviews, stack-up optimization, power delivery design, and bill-of-materials management.
• Engineer for high-speed performance. Evaluate signal integrity and power integrity simulation results, translate findings into design improvements, and verify compliance with electrical requirements.
• Bring designs to life in the lab. Lead optical test platform hardware bring-up, electrical and optical characterization, and debugging using high-speed oscilloscopes, vector or performance network analyzers, signal generators, optical sampling scope, and electronic loads.
• Validate the complete system. Partner with optical, silicon, and firmware engineers to investigate hardware behavior, control-loop performance, and interactions across operating conditions.
• Accelerate engineering through automation. Develop scripts and tools using Python, C++, and/or MATLAB to improve validation efficiency, measurement repeatability, and correlation between simulations and laboratory results.
• Balance performance with production realities. Select components with attention to electrical performance, availability, cost, and manufacturability.
• Connect development with production. Collaborate with operations, product engineering, test engineering, applications engineering, manufacturing, and business development to align requirements and support successful product introduction.
• Provide Senior Staff technical leadership. Lead design reviews, mentor engineers, communicate tradeoffs, and coordinate technical execution across global teams.
• Build knowledge that lasts. Document design rationale, validation methods, and results, and share insights through technical presentations and internal reports.

At Marvell, you can build deep expertise while contributing across a broad semiconductor technology portfolio. This role offers the combination of challenging engineering, end-to-end ownership, and collaboration needed to turn advanced optical technology into products that help AI infrastructure scale.

What We're Looking For

• A master’s degree in Electrical or Electronic Engineering with 3+ years of relevant experience, or a bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated ownership of complex O2E and E2O hardware development, with the technical judgment and cross-functional leadership expected at the Senior Staff level.
• Proven experience designing optical transceiver module and test platform hardware design for testing, power delivery, or high-speed communications.
• Strong fundamentals in analog and RF signaling, PCB design and fabrication, schematic capture, and hardware interfaces.
• Experience evaluating signal integrity and power integrity using tools such as PowerDC, PowerSI, ADS, HFSS, or Clarity 3D.
• Proficiency with schematic capture and layout environments, including relevant Cadence tools or comparable platforms.
• Familiarity with communication and control protocols such as SPI, I2C, I3C, SPMI, and UART.
• Hands-on experience using oscilloscopes, VNAs/PNAs, signal generators, and electronic loads to characterize and troubleshoot hardware.
• Experience developing automation or analysis tools using Python, C++, and/or MATLAB.
• Strong problem-solving skills, including the ability to isolate issues spanning hardware, firmware, and system behavior.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to influence technical decisions across multidisciplinary, global teams.
• The ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining design quality and execution discipline.

Additional experience that will help you stand out:

• • Optical transceiver engines, silicon photonics, optical DSPs, or high-speed electro-optical systems.
  • Correlating simulation results with laboratory measurements.
  • Design for manufacturing and assembly, semiconductor test hardware, and production introduction.
  • Mentoring engineers or presenting and publishing technical work.

Expected Base Pay Range (USD)

134,390 - 201,300, $ per annum

The successful candidate’s starting base pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location and market conditions. The expected base pay range for this role may be modified based on market conditions.


This role is eligible to participate in Marvell's bonus and equity plans, including a new hire equity grant and annual equity refreshers, ensuring you are rewarded for your contributions and remain invested in the company's long-term success.


Additional Compensation and Benefit Elements 

Marvell is committed to providing exceptional, comprehensive benefits that support our employees at every stage - from internship to retirement and through life’s most important moments. Our offerings are built around four key pillars: financial well-being, family support, mental and physical health, and recognition. Highlights include an employee stock purchase plan with a 2-year look back, family support programs to help balance work and home life, robust mental health resources to prioritize emotional well-being, and a recognition and service awards to celebrate contributions and milestones. We look forward to sharing more with you during the interview process.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.

Any applicant who requires a reasonable accommodation during the selection process should contact Marvell HR Helpdesk at TAOps@marvell.com.

Interview Integrity 

To support fair and authentic hiring practices, candidates are not permitted to use AI tools (such as transcription apps, real-time answer generators like ChatGPT or Copilot, or automated note-taking bots) during interviews.

These tools must not be used to record, assist with, or enhance responses in any way. Our interviews are designed to evaluate your individual experience, thought process, and communication skills in real time. Use of AI tools without prior instruction from the interviewer will result in disqualification from the hiring process.

This position may require access to technology and/or software subject to U.S. export control laws and regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). As such, applicants must be eligible to access export-controlled information as defined under applicable law. Marvell may be required to obtain export licensing approval from the U.S. Department of Commerce and/or the U.S. Department of State. Except for U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, or protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), all applicants may be subject to an export license review process prior to employment.

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