Frank Marlowe earned a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Pratt Institute in 1963, a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1965, and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University – New Brunswick in 1973. Marlowe began work for RCA laboratories in 1963 as a member of the technical staff where he conducted research in flat panel displays, television, liquid crystals, computer memories, and integrated circuits.

In 1986 Marlowe became an Engineering Manager for the David Sarnoff Research Center in which he lead research groups in projects on television broadcasting, cable television, digital signal processing, and semiconductor design. From 1995 until 2009 Marlowe was a Proposal Manager for the Sarnoff Corporation in which he managed the development of research proposals in computer vision, image processing, biometrics, and related fields. Marlowe has 15 U.S. patents.