Senior Staff Testing Engineer

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

As a test development senior staff engineer in the Operations business group you will test features on the silicon semiconductor chips Marvell produces for internal and external customers. You will make sure we dont ship out any underperforming units. Youll work closely with design to make sure their chip features are testable and that the results meet the customers specifications. You may even have to write new code or develop new testing strategies when our chips outpace the capabilities of current testing equipment.

What You Can Expect

• Test Architecture & Strategy: Define the overall test strategy roadmap and architecture for wafer-level and die-level/module-level testing of silicon photonics devices.

• Automated Test Infrastructure: Design build and optimize fully automated high-throughput optical test beds integrating precision alignment systems tunable lasers optical spectrum analyzers (OSAs) and high-speed RF instrumentation.

• Design for Test (DFT): Collaborate closely with the SiPh Design and Layout teams to implement robust DFT and DFM (Design for Manufacturing) features ensuring early-stage designs are optimized for scalable automated testing.

• Characterization & Validation: Lead the electro-optic characterization of active and passive components including insertion loss polarization dependence (PDL) responsivity high-bandwidth RF parameters ($S$-parameters) eye diagrams and Bit Error Rate (BER).

• Data Analysis & Yield Optimization: Develop advanced data analysis pipelines to parse large volumes of test data. Utilize statistical process control (SPC) to identify yield detractors root-cause failures and drive continuous improvement in chip performance and manufacturing yield.

• Vendor & Ecosystem Management: Partner with external OSATs foundry partners and test equipment vendors to co-develop customized optical probers instrumentation and production-line test setups.

What Were Looking For

• Education: Ph.D. or Masters degree in Electrical Engineering Physics Photonics or a closely related field.

• Experience: 8 years of hands-on experience in silicon photonics design characterization or production testing.

• Core Photonics Expertise: Deep theoretical and practical knowledge of integrated optics including waveguiding principles grating couplers edge couplers microring resonators Mach-Zehnder modulators (MZMs) and APDs/PIN photodetectors.

• Automation & Software: Proficient in developing complex robust automation frameworks using Python LabVIEW or C/C for instrument control hardware synchronization and data acquisition.

• Instrumentation Mastery: Extensive experience with high-speed optical and RF test equipment including LCA (Lightwave Component Analyzers) sampling oscilloscopes optical switches and sub-micron precision alignment stages

• Data Analytics: Strong statistical skills with experience using data analysis tools (e.g. JMP MATLAB Pandas/NumPy or SQL) to handle large-scale wafer/die test datasets.

Expected Base Pay Range (USD)

120200 - 177820 $ 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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