Vice President Advanced Optical Engineer

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. 

This is an existing vacancy.

Your Team, Your Impact

Build the Optical Foundation Powering the AI Era

At Marvell, we are re-architecting the infrastructure that will define the next decade of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and accelerated networking. As AI clusters scale from thousands to millions of interconnected endpoints, the industry’s greatest bottleneck is no longer compute — it is connectivity, bandwidth density, power efficiency, and optical scale.

Marvell is uniquely positioned at the center of this transformation.
From coherent DSP leadership and silicon photonics innovation to advanced packaging and next-generation optical interconnect architectures, Marvell is enabling the scale-up, scale-out, and scale-in infrastructure powering the world’s largest hyperscalers, cloud providers, telecom operators, and AI platforms.

We are seeking an exceptional executive leader to serve as Vice President, Advanced Optical Engines — a highly visible role responsible for defining and delivering the next generation of coherent optical engines, transceivers, XPO platforms, and advanced photonic integration technologies that will power AI and cloud infrastructure at unprecedented scale.

This is not simply a product leadership role. This is an opportunity to shape the future architecture of the semiconductor and optical networking industry.
This position is based onsite five days per week. Due to the highly collaborative and fast-paced nature of the work, remote and hybrid work arrangements are not available for this role.

What You Can Expect

Your Team

You will lead a world-class multidisciplinary organization spanning:

• Coherent DSP and high-speed mixed-signal systems
• Silicon photonics and integrated optics
• Indium Phosphide (InP) and TFLN technologies
• Optical module and XPO architecture
• Firmware and embedded systems
• High-speed electrical design and signal integrity
• Mechanical, thermal, and packaging engineering
• System integration, validation, and manufacturing enablement

Your organization will partner closely with Product Management, Operations, Supply Chain, Foundry and OSAT partners, Manufacturing, Sales, and Executive Leadership to accelerate innovation from concept to hyperscale deployment.

You will also engage directly with strategic hyperscale and AI infrastructure customers shaping the future of networking architectures across cloud, AI training, inference fabrics, and datacenter interconnect.

Your Impact

As Vice President, Advanced Optical Engines, you will define and execute Marvell’s strategy for next-generation optical connectivity solutions across AI and cloud infrastructure markets.

You will lead the development of breakthrough technologies enabling:

• Ultra-high bandwidth optical interconnects
• Power-efficient AI cluster networking
• Co-packaged and near-packaged optics
• 400G, 800G, 1.6T, and next-generation coherent platforms
• Scalable optical architectures for AI scale-up and scale-out fabrics
• Advanced optical packaging and heterogeneous integration

You will play a critical role in helping customers overcome the industry’s most difficult infrastructure challenges involving bandwidth density, thermal constraints, power efficiency, manufacturability, and deployment scalability.

This role requires both visionary technical leadership and operational execution excellence. You will guide long-range technology strategy while driving complex engineering programs from architecture through customer qualification and production ramp.

Key areas of responsibility include:

Technology & Product Leadership

• Define the technical vision and roadmap for coherent optical engines, transceiver platforms, and XPO solutions.
• Drive innovation across coherent DSP, silicon photonics, optical integration, and advanced packaging technologies.
• Lead system-level optimization across optical, electrical, thermal, firmware, packaging, and manufacturability domains.
• Establish engineering best practices for signal integrity, reliability, power optimization, scalability, and yield.

Customer & Ecosystem Engagement

• Partner directly with hyperscalers, AI infrastructure providers, telecom customers, and strategic accounts.
• Lead technical roadmap discussions, architecture reviews, qualification activities, and escalation management.
• Build and strengthen strategic partnerships with foundries, OSATs, packaging providers, optical component suppliers, and manufacturing partners.

Organizational Leadership

• Build, mentor, and scale high-performing global engineering organizations.
• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, technical excellence, and execution discipline.
• Recruit and develop top-tier engineering talent across photonics, packaging, DSP, and systems engineering disciplines.

Program Execution

• Drive complex product development programs from concept through production deployment.
• Manage engineering budgets, schedules, technical milestones, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Ensure successful execution against aggressive customer and market timelines.

What You Can Expect

A Front-Row Seat to the AI Infrastructure Revolution

The networking and optical interconnect layer has become one of the most critical enabling technologies in modern AI systems. At Marvell, you will help define the architectures enabling next-generation accelerated computing infrastructure worldwide.

Industry-Leading Technology Depth

Marvell combines leadership across:

• Coherent DSP
• Custom silicon
• Silicon photonics
• Advanced packaging
• High-speed networking
• Cloud and carrier infrastructure

This convergence uniquely positions Marvell to solve some of the most complex scaling challenges in the semiconductor industry.

Executive Visibility and Influence

You will work directly with senior executives, strategic customers, ecosystem partners, and industry leaders while shaping technologies central to the future of AI and cloud networking.

A Culture Built on Innovation and Ownership

Marvell empowers leaders who combine deep technical expertise with a bias for execution, collaboration, and customer impact. We move quickly, solve difficult problems, and operate with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.

In-Person Collaboration

This role is fully onsite five days per week. The complexity and pace of innovation in advanced optical systems require deep cross-functional collaboration, rapid decision-making, and close partnership across engineering and business teams.

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Photonics, Physics, or related technical discipline required; Master’s or PhD strongly preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience in coherent optics, optical networking, high-speed transceivers, or advanced optical interconnect technologies.
• Proven track record leading large-scale multidisciplinary engineering organizations.
• Demonstrated success bringing complex optical networking products from concept through production.

Deep Technical Expertise In Several Of The Following Areas

• Coherent and Coherent-Lite DSP
• Silicon Photonics
• Indium Phosphide (InP)
• Thin Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN)
• TIA and laser driver electronics
• Firmware and embedded systems
• High-speed PCB design and signal integrity
• Optical packaging and photonic integration
• Mechanical and thermal engineering
• System integration and validation
• Co-Packaged Optics (CPO)
• Near-Packaged Optics (NPO)
• On-Board Optics (OBO)

Industry & Customer Engagement Experience

• Strong experience working with hyperscale datacenter, AI infrastructure, telecom, or cloud customers.
• Demonstrated success managing strategic supplier and foundry relationships across the semiconductor and photonics ecosystem.
• Deep understanding of manufacturing scalability, reliability, qualification, and yield optimization.

Leadership Characteristics

We are looking for a leader who is:

• Technically credible at the deepest engineering levels
• Strategic, operationally disciplined, and execution-oriented
• Collaborative and highly influential across organizations
• Customer-focused and externally engaged
• Able to inspire and scale elite engineering teams
• Comfortable operating from architecture definition to executive-level business strategy

Why Marvell

Marvell is helping build the data infrastructure technology connecting the world. Across cloud, AI, enterprise, automotive, and carrier markets, our semiconductor solutions move, store, process, and secure the world’s data.

The next generation of AI infrastructure will demand orders-of-magnitude increases in bandwidth, optical density, and power efficiency. Marvell is at the forefront of solving these challenges through leadership in coherent optics, custom compute connectivity, silicon photonics, and advanced packaging technologies.

If you want to help define the future of optical interconnects powering the AI era — this is the place to do it.

Expected Base Pay Range (CAN)
273,800 -365,000, $ 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.

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.

Expected Base Pay Range (CAD)

0 - 0, $ per annum

Additional Compensation and Benefit Elements

With competitive compensation and great benefits, you will enjoy our workstyle within an environment of shared collaboration, transparency, and inclusivity. We’re dedicated to giving our people the tools and resources they need to succeed in doing work that matters, and to grow and develop with us. For additional information on what it’s like to work at Marvell, visit our Careers page.

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.

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.

Marvell may employ artificial intelligence technologies to assist in the evaluation of job applications. All application reviews include meaningful human involvement, and no hiring decisions are made solely on the basis of automated processing.

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