Senior Staff Analog Design Engineer

Marvell is seeking a Senior Staff Analog Design Engineer to join the Central Engineering team in Pavia, Italy. This role involves developing high-performance analog or DSP-based transceivers operating in the multi-tens of GHz range using advanced CMOS nodes. Key responsibilities include analyzing specifications, designing analog blocks, supervising layout, modeling, and collaborating with teams. The position requires full-time on-site presence and offers opportunities to learn and specialize within an impactful team.

Must Have

• Analyze block specifications and select appropriate topologies
• Design analog blocks at the transistor level
• Supervise layout activities, provide guidelines and conduct post-layout verifications
• Model blocks and validate models
• Collaborate with other teams to enhance existing solutions
• Train and mentor junior designers
• Master’s degree with 6+ years or PhD with 3+ years of relevant experience
• Experience in designing ICs from architecture definition to lab characterization
• Proficiency in analog design, preferably multi-GHz range
• Extensive experience in analog custom layout
• Familiarity with EDA CAD tools
• Expertise in measuring IC performance and debugging designs
• Strong communication, presentation, and documentation skills
• Proficiency in spoken and written Italian and English (B2 level or higher)

Good to Have

• Direct project experience in Multi-Gbps electrical SerDes or electro-optical transceivers
• Direct project experience in Advance CMOS nodes, including FinFET

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Great benefits
• Workstyle within an environment of shared collaboration, transparency, and inclusivity
• Tools and resources for success and growth

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

As an Analog IC Design Senior Staff Engineer with Marvell, you’ll be a member of the Central Engineering business group. If you picture Marvell as a wheel, Central Engineering is the center hub providing IP to be used by all the other spokes on that wheel, including Automotive, Storage, Security, and Networking. You’ll be part of a small analog team making a big impact on this organization. Additionally, Marvell has the perfect size and scale for you to learn several aspects of engineering that will be new to you, but also have the time and freedom to dive deep into the details of your specialization on most projects.

What You Can Expect

We are seeking a motivated Analog Design Engineer to join our team. You will play a key role in developing high-performance analog or DSP- based transceivers operating in the multi-tens of GHz range, utilizing advanced CMOS nodes (3nm and beyond).

Key responsibilities:

• Analyze block specifications and select appropriate topologies
• Design analog blocks at the transistor level
• Supervise layout activities, provide guidelines and conduct post-layout verifications
• Model blocks and validate models
• Collaborate with other teams to enhance existing solutions
• Train and mentor junior designers

The position is located at our office in Pavia, Italy, and requires full-time on-site presence

What We're Looking For

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, preferably with a specialization in Microelectronics, or a related field, with 6+ years of relevant work experience

OR

PhD in Electrical Engineering, preferably with a specialization in Microelectronics, or a related field, with 3+ years of relevant work experience.

Experience in designing ICs from architecture definition to lab characterization, with full block ownership

Solid proficiency in analog design, preferably in the multi-GHz range

Extensive experience in performing or supervising analog custom layout

Strong familiarity with EDA CAD tools

Expertise in measuring IC performance and debugging designs to correlate simulations with measurements

Direct project experience in at least one of the following areas a plus:

• Multi-Gbps electrical SerDes or electro-optical transceivers
• Advance CMOS nodes, including FinFET

Strong communication, presentation and documentation skills

Proficiency in both spoken and written Italian and English (B2 level or higher)

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.