Marvell Senior Staff Engineer Physical Design 

United States, North Carolina 

845388807

What You Can Expect

• Develop andmaintain bare-metalembedded test codein C/C++ tocontrol and validate high-speed ASIC SoCs across various product lines.

• Work with custom evaluation systems inboth pre-siliconemulationplatforms (e.g.,FPGA, Zebu)and post-siliconenvironments.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that hardware components and systems meet stringent performance, reliability, and compliance standards.

• Demonstrate expertise in processor architectures, including ARM M/R/A seriescores and RISC-V,with knowledge of: Exception models, MPU/MMU, CoreSight, GIC/VIC/NVIC, JTAG, PMU, SMP.

• Develop firmware to validate new SoC silicon functionality, covering high-speed interfaces like PCIe, DDR and low-speed interfaces such as I2C, I2S, USB, SMBus, and SPI. Responsibilities include building test tools and scripting frameworks as needed.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, with 5–10 years of relevant professional experience.

• Master’s Degree and/or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, with 3–5 years of relevant professional experience.

• Experience in Firmware Development under Bare Metal/Linux Environment and Debugging on SoCs for embedded Applications.

• Proficient in C/C++, assembly, 64-bit ARM CPU architecture.

• Experience with silicon bring-up and pre/post silicon validation.

• Excellent troubleshooting skills to resolve silicon issues and provide technical/debug support to internal or external customers.

• Must have hands on experience with lab test equipment (Oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power analyzers etc.) and standard lab operating procedures.

• Proven ability to debug hardware and board-level issues. Skilled in testing methodologies, including capturing and analyzing protocol traces, oscilloscope data, and signal waveforms.

• Deep knowledge and expertise in common SoC embedded core components for power supply, clock distribution, control logic functions, and familiar basic communication protocols, such as PCIe, DDR, USB, I2C ,SPI GPIO, SPI, I2C, I2S, SMBus.

Expected Base Pay Range (USD)

The successful candidate’s starting base pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location and market conditions.The expected base pay range for this role may be modified based on market conditions.

Additional Compensation and Benefit Elements

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