Senior Director - Platform Engineering
About The Position
Marvell is seeking an engineering leader to build and lead a new Platform Solutions organization that transforms advanced silicon technologies into deployable systems for AI and cloud infrastructure. The organization will develop boards, switch systems, rack-scale infrastructure, and integrated platform solutions for hyperscale and enterprise data center customers. The role establishes the engineering function, defines its operating model, and scales a team to deliver customer-ready platform solutions. The Senior Director will oversee multidisciplinary engineering across hardware, systems, validation, integration, and manufacturing. The role owns platform engineering from concept through design, bring-up, qualification, production, and customer deployment, with responsibility for architecture decisions, engineering practices, validation, manufacturing readiness, and customer engagement. The successful candidate will build a high-performance organization, create repeatable processes, and coordinate across internal teams, customers, suppliers, ODMs, subcontractors, and contract manufacturers.
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 in a related field.
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.
- Drive organizational effectiveness, execution, accountability, collaboration, and innovation through growth, ambiguity, 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 tradeoffs 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 bring-up, debugging, system integration, and performance optimization.
- Drive system-level architecture decisions involving power, thermals, signal integrity, and reliability.
- Establish robust engineering practices, design reviews, risk management, and technical governance across design, validation, and release cycles.
- Establish board-, system-, and rack-level validation methodologies and build engineering laboratories for bring-up, validation, reliability testing, and customer qualification.
- Drive electrical, thermal, functional, environmental, and performance validation programs, as well as scalable validation automation and data collection.
- 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 and develop manufacturing, test, and quality strategies.
- Resolve technical and operational challenges across the supply chain ecosystem.
- Engage directly with hyperscale, cloud, and enterprise customers; translate their requirements into engineering priorities and platform capabilities.
- Support customer design reviews, deployments, issue resolution, and technical escalations.
- Act as the executive engineering representative for platform development programs.
Benefits
- 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
