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Optical Systems Senior Staff Engineer

Marvell Semiconductor, Inc.
Santa Clara, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/19/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/17/2025

About Marvell

Marvell's semiconductor solutions are the essential building blocks of the data infrastructure that connects our world. Across enterprise, cloud and AI, automotive, 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

Join a world-class dynamic team to enable the next generation of AI revolution. The Connectivity business unit aims to provide world-class DSP solutions for optical communications from inside data center of 300 meters to long haul links spaning thousands of kilometers.
The mission of the Connectivity optical system group is to lead the development of leading-edge DSP for coherent and IMDD optical communications. The team is responsible for providing performance assessment of future product roadmap by building optical evaluation platforms with state-of-the-art electro-optical components and DSP test chips to build simulation models, validate performance with offline DSP processing, and provide reference design. The team is also responsible for conducting post-silicon performance verification in a completely automated testing environment with 2000 km of single-mode fiber, pdl, and PMD. A successful candidate will help expand the team's capability in electro-optical components modeling and offline DSP processing and participate in post-silicon verification.

What You Can Expect

Connectivity Optical Systems Group:

  • Conduct system verification tests on Marvell's Coherent and IMDD DSPs with state of the are optical engine.

  • Compose DSP simulation models of electro optical components used in pluggable coherent and IMDD modules and correlate models with measurements.

  • Run DSP simulations with said models to predict module performances of future DSP products.

  • Provide technical guidance to customers on how to tune their optical platform with Marvell DSPs to get the best-in-class performance.

What We're Looking For

In order to be success as a senior staff engineer at Marvell, you should have at least a master's degree in electrical engineering with 5 years of experience with coherent optical or IMDD communication products or a Ph. D. with three years of work experience.

You should also have in depth knowledge in the following subjects:

  • Optical fiber communications with knowledge in CD, PMD, and PDL.

  • DSP techniques to recover digital signals from a noisy and time varying channel such as FFE, timing recovery, and carrier phase recovery.

  • A technical scripting language such as matlab or python.

  • Verification testing and instrument automation.

Knowledge in the following subject matters are desired but not required:

  • Ethernet client-side protocols.

  • Serdes

  • Embedded FW programming and debug.

  • C or C programming language.

Expected Base Pay Range (USD)

124,160 - 186,000, $ 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

At Marvell, we offer a total compensation package with a base, bonus and equity.Health and financial wellbeing are part of the package. That means flexible time off, 401k, plus a year-end shutdown, floating holidays, paid time off to volunteer. Have a question about our benefits packages - health or financial? Ask your recruiter 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.

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