Senior Director - Platform Engineering
About The Position
Marvell is seeking an engineering leader to establish and scale an organization responsible for transforming advanced silicon technologies into deployable, customer-ready systems for AI and cloud infrastructure. The Platform organization designs, develops, validates, and delivers boards, switch systems, rack-scale infrastructure, and integrated platform solutions for next-generation networking and AI architectures. The role leads hardware system architecture, board development, system integration, validation, manufacturing readiness, and customer deployment support, while defining the engineering function’s operating model and processes. The position oversees platform and system development from concept through design, bring-up, qualification, production, and customer deployment. It also builds engineering laboratories and scalable validation practices, establishes manufacturing and quality strategies with external partners, and represents engineering in customer engagements. The leader is expected to build a high-performing, multidisciplinary organization and create clarity and repeatable processes in a growing, evolving environment.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 15+ years of leadership experience in networking, switching, data center infrastructure, or AI system development.
- Proven experience leading hardware and systems engineering organizations.
- Deep expertise in networking and switch-based platform development.
- Strong experience designing and delivering complex boards and integrated systems.
- Extensive experience with system bring-up, validation, qualification, and production deployment.
- Hands-on experience working with ODMs, subcontractors, suppliers, and contract manufacturers.
- Experience developing rack-scale infrastructure, AI systems, networking platforms, or data center solutions.
- Proven success building and scaling engineering teams in high-growth environments.
- Strong background creating engineering processes, governance, development methodologies, and execution frameworks.
- Track record of delivering complex products from concept through customer deployment.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with AI infrastructure, Ethernet switching, optical interconnects, or rack-scale architectures.
- Knowledge of high-speed interfaces including Ethernet, PCIe, UALink, and advanced interconnect technologies.
- Experience supporting hyperscale customer deployments.
- Familiarity with large-scale board manufacturing and system integration environments.
- Experience leading globally distributed engineering organizations.
- PhD.
Responsibilities
- Build, lead, and scale a multidisciplinary engineering organization spanning hardware, systems, validation, integration, and manufacturing engineering.
- Recruit, develop, and mentor engineers and technical experts; establish the engineering culture, operating model, and processes.
- Create a high-performance organization focused on execution, accountability, collaboration, and innovation, and drive organizational effectiveness amid growth and changing priorities.
- Lead development of networking platforms, switch systems, boards, modules, and rack-scale infrastructure solutions.
- Own platform engineering execution from concept through design, bring-up, qualification, and production.
- Drive architecture tradeoff decisions across hardware, software, mechanical, optical, thermal, and operational domains.
- Develop product-ready systems integrating networking, optics, compute, memory, and infrastructure technologies that meet customer, quality, cost, and schedule requirements.
- Lead design and development of complex high-speed boards and networking platforms; oversee board bring-up, debugging, system integration, and performance optimization.
- Drive system-level architecture decisions involving power, thermals, signal integrity, and reliability.
- Establish robust engineering practices and frameworks for design reviews, risk management, and technical governance.
- Establish comprehensive board-, system-, and rack-level validation methodologies and engineering laboratories for bring-up, validation, reliability testing, and customer qualification.
- Drive electrical, thermal, functional, environmental, and performance validation programs; develop scalable validation automation and data collection processes.
- Ensure customer-ready quality and production readiness across programs.
- Lead technical engagement with ODMs, subcontractors, manufacturing partners, and suppliers.
- Drive Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Design for Test (DFT), and production-readiness initiatives; partner with contract manufacturers to scale products from prototype through volume production.
- Develop manufacturing, test, and quality strategies that support efficient ramp and deployment, and resolve technical and operational challenges across the supply chain.
- Engage directly with hyperscale, cloud, and enterprise customers; translate customer requirements into engineering priorities and platform capabilities.
- Support customer design reviews, deployments, issue resolution, and technical escalations; serve as the executive engineering representative for platform development programs.
Benefits
- Eligible to participate in bonus and equity plans, including a new-hire equity grant and annual equity refreshers.
- Employee stock purchase plan with a 2-year look back.
- Family support programs.
- Mental health resources.
- Recognition and service awards.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
