Staff Engineer, Digital IC Design

About Marvell

Marvell’s semiconductor solutions are the essential building blocks of the data infrastructure that connects our world. Across enterprise, cloud and AI, and carrier architectures, our innovative technology is enabling new possibilities. 

At Marvell, you can affect the arc of individual lives, lift the trajectory of entire industries, and fuel the transformative potential of tomorrow. For those looking to make their mark on purposeful and enduring innovation, above and beyond fleeting trends, Marvell is a place to thrive, learn, and lead. 

Your Team, Your Impact

Connectivity BU develops industry leading PAM4 optical digital signal processors (DSPs) power the optical interconnects inside the world’s cloud and AI data centers, and support both Ethernet and InfiniBand architectures. With increasing demands for training, inference and cloud computing, operators must quickly scale out their networks with reliable, low-latency, high-bandwidth connectivity. Marvell PAM4 DSPs deliver the performance and versatility needed to support AI and cloud frontend and backend networks at 1.6T, 800G, 400G, 200G and 100G

What You Can Expect

What You Can Expect

• As ASIC design engineer you will be responsible for the design, verification, and evaluation of digital circuits in high-speed data communication ICs.
• Develop ASIC specification and micro-architecture of digital signal processing and communications algorithms.
• Analyze DSP challenges and opportunities, explore and compare different optimization directions, and generate trade-off curves for performance and cost (complexity/power/area/design time).
• Work on high-efficiency DSP design.
• Design RTL for various PHY transceivers with data rates from 25Gbps to 224Gbps for diverse applications.
• Participate in various aspects of chip design RTL development, functional verification, RTL lint, cross clock domain (CDC) analysis, synthesis, formal equivalence, static timing analysis and PPA analysis.
• Post-silicon debug and correlation.

What We're Looking For

What We're Looking For

• Experience in high-speed DSP, FEC (Forward Error Correction), PCIe, and UCIe.
• Hands on experience with matching DSP block model functionality to RTL's, synthesis, static timing analysis and functional verification.
• Strong language user in Matlab, Verilog, System Verilog, Perl, Unix Shell.
• Experience of VLSI design from micro-architecture specification definition, verilog coding, synthesis and timing closure.
• Experience in both RTL development (block and subsystem level) and gate level verification and debug.
• Understanding of Design-for-Test (DFT) concept.
• Ability to multi-task and must be flexible and adaptable to a rapidly changing and demanding environment.
• Strong communication skills and effective team collaboration abilities
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related fields and 3-5 years of related professional experience.
• Master’s degree and/or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related fields with 2-3 years of experience.

Additional Compensation and Benefit Elements

With competitive compensation and great benefits, you will enjoy our workstyle within an environment of shared collaboration, transparency, and inclusivity. We’re dedicated to giving our people the tools and resources they need to succeed in doing work that matters, and to grow and develop with us. For additional information on what it’s like to work at Marvell, visit our Careers page.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.

Interview Integrity 

To support fair and authentic hiring practices, candidates are not permitted to use AI tools (such as transcription apps, real-time answer generators like ChatGPT or Copilot, or automated note-taking bots) during interviews.

These tools must not be used to record, assist with, or enhance responses in any way. Our interviews are designed to evaluate your individual experience, thought process, and communication skills in real time. Use of AI tools without prior instruction from the interviewer will result in disqualification from the hiring process.

This position may require access to technology and/or software subject to U.S. export control laws and regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). As such, applicants must be eligible to access export-controlled information as defined under applicable law. Marvell may be required to obtain export licensing approval from the U.S. Department of Commerce and/or the U.S. Department of State. Except for U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, or protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), all applicants may be subject to an export license review process prior to employment.

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