About this role
Job title: Principal Optical Engineer - Light Sources
About the Role Be the key driver of the end-to-end development of Celestial’s external light source technology, from concept to volume manufacturing. This role focuses on delivering production-ready external optical components for Marvell's Celestial platforms, partnering across engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain to drive performance, reliability, and yield.
What You'll Do
- Own end-to-end lifecycle support of the light sources: concept/design selection, development, procurement, full characterization, reliability qualification, and production release.
- Act as the main point of contact with vendors to enable milestone completion and resolve performance/yield/supply issues.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with systems, packaging, firmware, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain teams to deliver production-ready solutions.
- Contribute to development of other external optical components and fiber sub-assemblies used in Celestial products.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field with 10-15 years of experience OR Master’s/PhD with 5-10 years.
- Strong experience with semiconductor DFB laser diodes; clear grasp of laser physics and fundamentals.
- Experience with laser assembly and packaging techniques for data-center environments.
- Prior vendor engagements for component procurement.
- Experience running reliability assessment and qualification programs for optical components in general, and lasers in particular.
- Experience designing and working with fiber-optic and integrated-optics components and assemblies.
- Knowledge of standard manufacturing processes for integrating external components into Silicon photonics/integrated-optics products.
- Experience setting up test stations for laser characterization; familiarity with standard test equipment.
- Experience with free-space design software.
- Ability to collect and analyze large datasets.
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with Silicon Photonics systems is a plus.
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary range: USD 158,600 - 237,600 per year.
- Employee stock purchase plan with a 2-year look back; family support programs; robust mental health resources; recognition and service awards.
- Our benefits cover financial well-being, family support, mental and physical health, and recognition throughout your career at Marvell.