Senior Staff Optical Reliability Engineer - Santa Clara, CA, United States
Originally posted 7 October 2026 by the employer.
This role owns product qualification and reliability for Marvell’s optical products, including silicon photonics light engines, co-packaged optics (CPO) assemblies and pluggable optical transceivers.
About the role
This role involves owning product qualification and reliability for Marvell’s optical products, including silicon photonics light engines, co-packaged optics (CPO) assemblies and pluggable optical transceivers.
What you'll do
- Generate product qualification plans and drive robust execution of qualification testing.
- Define requirements for qualification hardware (HTOL and BDH, BHAST board etc.) and interface with subcontractors and engineering groups for design, verification, and delivery of stress boards.
- Collaborate with design/package/product engineering teams to drive FMEA for product qualification and mitigate reliability risks.
- Communicate qualification plans, status, and results to internal teams, management, and customers.
- Conduct reliability data analysis from product qualification and other reliability activities.
- Drive failure analysis activities resulting from product qualification and reliability stresses.
- Manage test subcontractors and vendors for the execution of product qualification tests.
- Analyze reliability data; predict product lifetime and maintain product FIT/MTBF estimates.
What you'll need
- BS in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Materials Science or related field with 5–10 years of experience; or MS/PhD with 3–5 years of experience.
- 2+ years in product qualification and reliability testing of optical or optoelectronic semiconductor products.
- Strong technical understanding of optical systems including semiconductor lasers, silicon photonic devices, co-packaged or near-package optics, pluggable transceivers.
- Deep knowledge of semiconductor components, assembly and advanced packaging technologies.
- Familiarity with JEDEC, Telcordia (GR-468), and MIL-STD qualification standards and their underlying physics.
- In-depth knowledge of stress testing methodologies (HTOL, DH, HAST, TC, HTS, ESD, LU, etc).
- Experience with reliability data analysis and Statistical data analysis.
- Experience in the use of JMP, Minitab or ReliaSoft.
Nice to have
- Experience automating data collection / processing with python scripting; AI tools.
This role has been open 1 day — well below the 50-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · AI ML Hardware
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Open roles in category
921
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Median days open
50 d
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Median salary
$159k
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| Metric | Marvell Technology | All employers we track in this specialty (921 roles · 102 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 19 | 921 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 58 | 6063 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 71 d | 50 d (+21 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $159k |
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How we counted: 921 open Hardware Systems Engineering (AI ML Hardware) roles from 102 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 8 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.