Staff Engineer, Application Engineering

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

Marvell’s Optical DSP (ODSP) Applications Engineering support customers designing systems with Marvell’s optical digital signal processors for datacenter applications. Acting as the primary line of defense, ODSP applications engineering team review customer designs using Marvell ODSP products & enable customers to integrate the ODSP products into their customer platforms providing SW/HW/Systems levels support, resolve customer reported issues with a direct impact to revenue as part of the Connectivity business unit.

ODSP applications engineering team works with state of the art process node and technology enabling next gen AI and datacenter applications that get deployed at major cloud customers.

What You Can Expect

Support Optical PHY products. Proactively and efficiently function as a center of technical excellence in optical PHY (physical layer) electronic circuit products for CDR (Clock Data Recovery), Retimer, and PAM (Pulse Amplitude Modulation). Work on debugging Analog and Digital issues related to the Marvell Optical PHY product portfolio. Develop automated software test routines to validate Marvell Optical PHY products. Write and maintain data sheets and application notes, technical articles and usage guides on Optical PHY products.

Collaborate with the sales teams, Failure Analysis Engineers, and PLMs (Product Lifecycle Managers) to gather and communicate customer’s needs to marketing and engineering. Train and guide customers through product usage. Own and drive customer issues to resolution, while also acting as interface between customer and company to resolve technical issues utilizing knowledge of analog, system hardware, firmware, and application software issues.

Provide timely responses to customer questions by using technical skills to quickly troubleshoot and debug customer issues. Wage $156,000.00 - $158,000.00 per year.

What We're Looking For

• Master’s or foreign equivalent degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Must have work/internship experience or completed graduate coursework/research in each of the following:
• Python and C programming languages.
• Analog Electronics, including Op Amps and Drivers.
• Mixed Signal IC Circuit Design, including DAC, ADCs and PLLs.
• Design and Verification of Advanced Digital Circuits.
• Digital Signal Processing, including specialty in Filter Design.
• Signal Integrity concepts.
• Machine Learning Applications.
• Advanced Field Effect Devices – Semiconductor Device Physics.
• Real Time Embedded Systems.
• On-Chip Hardware Security.
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This role is eligible to participate in Marvell's bonus and equity plans, including a new hire equity grant and annual equity refreshers, ensuring you are rewarded for your contributions and remain invested in the company's long-term success.
 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.