Optical Testing Engineer

Your Team, Your Impact

The data center group builds highly integrated component platforms with high speed Silicon photonics, transmit and receive amplifiers, controller ASIC’s with Marvell DSP’s in the form of pluggable modules. 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

The successful candidate will be part of the system verification team and responsible for testing of optical pluggable modules and ensuring spec compliance.

What You Can Expect

• Develop optical test beds.
• Develop automation test software code and run tests to measure pluggable performance.
• Collaborate with validation and firmware teams to improve the performance of the pluggable.
• Root cause and failure analysis of the pluggable.
• Write technical reports and present findings to broader team.

What We're Looking For

• Master’s degree with 3 to 4 years of industrial experience OR a PhD in electrical engineering with 1-2 years of industrial experience.
• Strong foundation in coherent optical communication systems including fiber transmission penalties such as Chromatic dispersion, PMD, SPM and XPM.
• Familiarity with DSP compensation algorithms.
• Proficient with optical test equipment usage such as Erbium doped fiber amplifiers (EDFA’s), variable optical attenuators (VOA’s), optical spectrum analyzers (OSA’s) etc.
• Proficient with electrical test equipment and usage such as scopes and RF spectrum analyzers.
• Strong knowledge of Python, MATLAB knowledge an asset.
• Proactive problem-solver with the ability to take initiative and deliver results in a dynamic environment.

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

As part of our commitment to fair and authentic hiring practices, we ask that candidates do not use AI tools (e.g., transcription apps, real-time answer generators like ChatGPT, CoPilot, or note-taking bots) during interviews.

Our interviews are designed to assess your personal experience, thought process, and communication skills in real-time. If a candidate uses such tools during an interview, they will be disqualified 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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