Senior Staff Application Engineer

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

The ODSP team within Marvell’s Connectivity Business Group develops advanced products supporting industry leading solutions for the growing datacenter, enterprise, optics, and AI application. As a member of the ODSP validation team, you will have the opportunity to work with multi-disciplinary teams from analog, software, firmware developers and PCB designers to develop hardware platforms, and write device drivers and scripts to full validate leading edge products. You will be involved in complex lab testing, hardware brings up activities and all facets of the prototype process including PCB fab and assembly.

What You Can Expect

• Support internal or external teams on system level debugging.
• Analyze bring up, debug and characterize silicon level Marvell’s internal IPs such as High-Speed SerDes for various Marvell products.
• Evaluate and debug new features in PHY, develop driver firmware, collect performance data, and resolve application and production issues including Ethernet and PCIe products.
• Provide direct technical support to top tier customers and work with them to review designs, discuss questions and help tune performance to meet system requirement.
• Develop and execute bench level validation test plans, develop script in Python, VBA, MATLAB to automate testing.
• Generate appropriate test report and write application notes.
• Provide technical support to customers for resolving all technical issues and for furnishing collateral documentation related to technical matters.
• Act as a primary technical interface between the company and customers.
• Qualify design activity at the customer engineering level and participate in the definition of new products and the identification of niche areas that present new opportunities for Marvell.
• Location: Pavia, Italy.
• Work Model: Full-time, on-site.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering/Science or related technical field and five (5) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation. Master’s degree on Electrical/Electronic Engineering or Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering is preferable.
• Strong fundamentals of communication, transmission lines, EM, microwave theories.
• Test Script generation in Python, VBA, MATLAB or other language.
• Debugging using equipment like Oscilloscope (Keysight, Tektronix, Teledynelecroy), TDR (Time Domain Reflectometer, Tektronix), VNA (Vector Network Analyzer, Agilent), Logic Analyzer (Tektronix, Agilent).
• Bench analysis using equipment like BERT (Bit Error Rate Tester, Keysight, Anritsu) or AWG (Arbitrary Waveform Generator, Tektronix) in a plus.
• Performing 5G, 10G, 25G NRZ and 53G PAM-4 Transmitter Compliance test measurements using IEEE Compliant HCB (Host Compliance Board) test fixture is a plus.
• Performing electrical compliance testing for PCIE Gen4/5 using PCI-SIG Compliance boards is a plus.
• Experience and knowledge on high-speed SerDes Printed Circuit Board design and system application.
• Creating and performing validation test cases and generating reports including the gathered data and target results.
• Attitude to interact with remote teams.
• Willing to travel
• Fluent in English both spoken and written.

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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