Design Verification - Senior Staff 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, automotive, 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

At Marvell’s Data Center Group (DCG), we develop and design the processors that move, process and secure the world's data. We are looking to add talented people to our design, verification, and customer support teams - working on all facets of designs for our leading SOC’s targeting AI infrastructure, 5G infrastructure, data center, borderless enterprise, and automotive applications. As a member of the Ethernet Security Team, you will be directly involved in the design and/or verification of world-leading high-performance Ethernet and data path cryptography solutions for major customers. You will be working alongside experienced engineers and interacting with architects, design, verification, and physical design engineers towards common team milestones and supporting current and future customers. If you are highly inquisitive, self-driven, passionate, and willing to push the boundaries of current technology, considering applying for this opportunity to join our world-class team.

As part of the Infrastructure Processor unit, you will verify all of the circuitry that goes inside our chips for the general market and for specific customers. These chips use cutting-edge technology to facilitate data transfers at high speeds, and you will help verify that each design meets our customers’ specifications.

What You Can Expect

• Collaborate with engineers on the verification of IP, subsystems, or SoCs, ensuring functional correctness and quality.
• Interact with internal and external customers, providing front-line verification support and resolving issues promptly.
• Develop clear and comprehensive verification plans, test strategies, and documentation for design blocks or subsystems.
• Create and maintain UVM-based verification environments, including writing testbenches, sequences, and reusable components.
• Implement functional coverage models and ensure coverage closure for blocks and subsystems.
• Debug complex design and verification issues using industry best practices and advanced tools.
• Assist with assertion-based verification, code coverage analysis, and regression management.
• Write and maintain automation scripts to streamline verification workflows and regression monitoring.
• Monitor regressions, triage failures, and drive resolution in collaboration with design and verification teams.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including architects, designers, physical design, and software/firmware engineers, to ensure seamless integration and verification.
• Maintain a strong customer focus with a commitment to delivering high-quality results.
• Mentoring and guiding junior verification engineers.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in Computer science, Electrical Engineering or related fields, and 5+ years of related professional experience.
• Knowledge of semiconductor ASIC design methodologies and flows
• Strong knowledge of Verilog/System Verilog/UVM
• Strong programming skills including object-oriented programming
• Experience with functional coverage, assertions, and constrained-random verification.
• Working experience with digital logic and computer architecture
• Knowledge of Ethernet and datapath cryptographic algorithms is an asset
• Demonstrates good analysis, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills
• Must have effective interpersonal, teamwork, and communication skills
• Willing to work in ASIC design/verification or customer support roles.
• BS/MS degree in EE/CE or related technical field(s) is required

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

As part of our commitment to fair and authentic hiring practices, we ask that candidates do not use AI tools (e.g., transcription apps, real-time answer generators like ChatGPT, CoPilot, or note-taking bots) during interviews.

Our interviews are designed to assess your personal experience, thought process, and communication skills in real-time. If a candidate uses such tools during an interview, they will be disqualified 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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