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Principal Optical Product Engineer

Marvell Technology
Santa Clara, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/3/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/13/2025
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

The Optics team builds highly integrated component platforms with high speed Silicon photonics, transmit and receive amplifiers, controller ASIC’s with Marvell DSP’s. These components are made operational with a highly functional embedded firmware. The team is responsible for design, verification, and validation of these integrated high speed optical components. The team performs system level testing under various operating conditions, and validates the performance of the hardware, firmware and control loops. An engineer in this team will be involved in a full product lifecycle and will carry new products from inception all the way to NPI.

Our team handles production of Silicon Photonics related chip, sub-assembly, and modules. We consign several one-of-a-kind of equipment sets to test our novel optical devices. Our daily tasks mainly involved test data review, failure analysis, and continuous interaction with OSAT and CM's.

What You Can Expect

  • Product engineering on module and light engine style optical products.
  • Key owner of the new product introduction (NPI) process to bring a design to product.
  • Owns optical product yield, cost analysis and improvement, with focus on advanced next generation highly integrated optical transceivers and light engines.
  • Defines and communicates design for manufacturability (DFm) requirements to cross functional teams.
  • Owns beta/pilot stage product build, production bring up, characterization, manufacturing readiness, PFMEA.
  • Defines and conducts product characterization during NPI phase.
  • Support quality team on completing reliability derisking and qualification.
  • Support RMA and failure analysis activities.
  • Work with and provide guidance to overseas team and contract manufacturers to maintain production.

What We're Looking For

  • MS with 10 years or PhD with 7 years industry experience in product development, product engineering, or manufacturing relating to optical components, sub-systems, modules, or systems/
  • Deep knowledge of optical modules, components, systems, and devices (lasers, detectors, modulators).
  • Experience in yield and production process improvement in mass production environment.
  • Experience with Telecordia GR-468 qualification process.
  • Familiar with optical component characterization techniques and optical test equipment.
  • Experience in high-speed signal analysis using bench test equipment (BERT, sampling scope, network analyzers).
  • Strong ownership, excellent communication, flexibility, and team spirit.
  • Programming experience in VB.Net, Python or similar platform for automated tests is a plus.
  • Experience in co-packaged optics fabrication is a plus.
  • Experience in managing failure analysis sub-contractors to ensure timely, complete, and thorough analysis is a plus.

Expected Base Pay Range (USD)

126,110 - 188,900, $ 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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