Senior Principal Applications Engineer – Advance Packaged Optics (CPO)

About Marvell

Marvells 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

The CPO Apps team will operates at the intersection of optics highspeed electrical design advanced packaging and system architecture providing handson technical support and successfully enable customer adoption of CoPackaged Optics at scale.

What You Can Expect

• Act as the primary technical interface for strategic customers designing CPO into GPUs accelerators and scaleup platforms

• Lead customer architecture reviews designin engagements and deepdive technical discussions

• Translate systemlevel customer requirements into complete CPO solutions spanning optics electrical mechanical thermal and test

• Support bringup characterization debug and qualification of CPObased designs. Lab skills are a must.

• Provide clear technical guidance tradeoff analysis and risk mitigation throughout the customer design cycle

• Drive endtoend CPO solution definition including:

  • Optical engines and silicon photonics integration

  • Highspeed electrical interfaces (112G dietodie advanced SerDes)

  • Signal integrity power delivery thermal and packaging constraints

  • Mechanical integration into GPU or accelerator packages

• Support host system integration including boardlevel cooling and manufacturing considerations

• Perform handson lablevel test characterization debug and failure analysis of CPO systems

Technical Demo Lead & Owner for Optical Industry Events

What Were Looking For

• Bachelors Masters or PhD in Electrical Engineering Optical Engineering Photonics or related field

• 10 years experience in highspeed interconnects optics and/or advanced packaging

• Highlevel knowledge of CoPackaged Optics and deployment in largescale compute systems

• Deep understanding of:

  • Optical link architectures and budgets

  • Highspeed SI/PI

  • GPU/accelerator packaging and integration constraints

  • CPO test qualification and manufacturing considerations

• Proven experience supporting customer designins at the system or package level

• Strong debugging and lab capability across electrical optical and thermal domains

• Demonstrated ability to work directly with Tier1 customers lead technical meetings and drive decisions

• Background in silicon photonics advanced packaging/chiplets or CPO manufacturing and test

Expected Base Pay Range (USD)

154680 - 231700 $ per annum

The successful candidates 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

Marvell is committed to providing exceptional comprehensive benefits that support our employees at every stage - from internship to retirement and through lifes most important moments. Our offerings are built around four key pillars: financial well-being family support mental and physical health and recognition. Highlights include an employee stock purchase plan with a 2-year look back family support programs to help balance work and home life robust mental health resources to prioritize emotional well-being and a recognition and service awards to celebrate contributions and milestones. We look forward to sharing more with you 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 .

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.

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