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
Help build the optical connectivity that moves AI forward.
AI performance depends on more than compute—it depends on how efficiently data moves. At Marvell, you’ll help turn advanced coherent DSP technology into high-performance hardware platforms that enable faster, more power-efficient optical networks.
This position is based in our Irvine, California office and requires working onsite five days per week. Remote and hybrid arrangements are not available.
What You Can Expect
Join the team developing hardware platforms for Marvell’s coherent digital signal processors (DSPs), critical enablers of high-speed transmission over fiber-optic networks. Our technology supports the bandwidth, reach, and efficiency demanded by hyperscale cloud infrastructure and telecommunications networks worldwide.
Across Marvell, semiconductor innovation helps customers scale up compute, scale out networks, and scale across interconnected data centers. Within that broader mission, our team focuses on coherent optical connectivity—transforming advanced silicon into reference designs and evaluation platforms that demonstrate performance and accelerate customer adoption.
As a Sr. Staff Hardware Design Engineer, you’ll work at the intersection of high-speed electronics, optical communications, and system engineering, solving the physical design challenges that determine how effectively next-generation silicon performs in the real world.
Your Impact
Take technical ownership of complex board-level designs, from architecture and simulation through bring-up, characterization, and validation. Your engineering decisions will directly influence platform performance, design quality, and development execution.
Develop high-performance coherent DSP platforms. Design reference boards and evaluation systems supporting 400G/800G-per-wavelength optical transmission, including power delivery, control, clocking, high-speed I/O, and form-factor requirements.
Push high-frequency signal integrity. Architect, simulate, and characterize high-speed interconnects and signal paths with bandwidth requirements exceeding 110 GHz, correlating simulation results with laboratory measurements.
Engineer robust power delivery. Design and simulate power circuits and power distribution networks that meet the demanding requirements of high-performance coherent DSPs.
Translate silicon requirements into complete systems. Collaborate with systems, analog, digital, firmware, design-for-test, failure analysis, validation, and applications engineers to define platform requirements and resolve design tradeoffs.
Lead board bring-up and debug. Partner with hardware and firmware engineers to establish initial functionality, isolate issues, and drive corrective actions.
Prove performance through disciplined validation. Develop and execute board validation plans, analyze results, and produce detailed reports documenting performance, issues, and recommendations.
Resolve complex hardware failures. Perform board-level failure analysis, identify root causes, and define necessary repairs or design improvements.
Deliver manufacturable designs. Work with PCB layout engineers, fabrication suppliers, and assembly partners to define placement, stack-ups, routing constraints, and design rules that support quality and timely delivery.
Strengthen engineering execution. Contribute technical guidance, design reviews, and practical improvements…