Firmware Engineer

Marvell Technology • Santa Clara, CA

1d • $166,520 - $249,500

About The Position

Marvell is seeking a Firmware Engineer to join its Platform Engineering team, supporting board, switch, and optics development for next-generation platform solutions. The role contributes to complex, cross-functional programs across AI, wired and wireless communications, and critical infrastructure markets.

The Firmware Engineer designs, develops, and maintains embedded firmware that brings up and controls board, switch, and optics hardware, including bootloaders, device drivers, and platform management firmware. The engineer works closely with hardware design, ASIC, signal and power integrity, validation, and systems software teams to ensure firmware is robust, secure, and production-ready throughout the platform lifecycle. The role also provides firmware architecture expertise, hardware bring-up support, and low-level debug leadership, helping ensure platform designs meet performance, quality, and schedule objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field and 10–15 years of related professional experience; alternatively, a master's degree and/or PhD in a related technical field with 5–10 years of experience.
• Strong proficiency in C/C++ for embedded firmware and low-level driver development, along with scripting skills in Python or Bash for automation.
• Experience developing low-level boot and platform initialization firmware for embedded systems.
• Solid understanding of high-speed system architecture, signal interfaces, and peripheral communication protocols.
• Experience with platform management controller firmware and remote system management interfaces.
• Hands-on experience with embedded operating systems, low-level drivers, and memory-mapped hardware interfaces.
• Hands-on experience with lab-based debug equipment to isolate firmware and hardware interaction issues.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and debug skills, with an inherent sense of urgency and accountability.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with networking silicon platforms from major industry vendors.
• Experience with continuous integration (CI/CD) pipelines and automated firmware test infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain embedded firmware, boot software, and device drivers for high-speed silicon, memory, interconnect, and power/thermal subsystems across networking platform hardware.
• Partner with hardware and silicon teams during early hardware bring-up, debugging prototype systems and firmware interactions.
• Develop and maintain platform management controller firmware and remote monitoring and control interfaces.
• Implement control-plane logic and low-level link-establishment routines between optical modules and host processing interfaces to support reliable, repeatable high-speed connectivity.
• Design low-level communication interfaces for pluggable modules and board controllers, and implement firmware memory architecture, access controls, and firmware-updatable power sequencing.
• Design and implement secure firmware update mechanisms, including signed images, verified boot, and remote management APIs, with recovery and independent updatability across platform firmware components, meeting industry security assurance standards.
• Develop embedded telemetry firmware to collect high-frequency system metrics and stream data to host memory with minimal performance impact, delivered through standard software upgrade mechanisms.
• Build automated firmware build, test, and release infrastructure, and support manufacturing test integration with production-ready images.
• Work with hardware, silicon, validation, and systems software teams to define firmware requirements and interfaces, and deliver supporting technical documentation.
• Identify firmware and platform integration risks, develop mitigation strategies, and escalate issues as needed to drive resolution.

Benefits

• Bonus and equity plans, including a new hire equity grant and annual equity refreshers.
• Employee stock purchase plan with a 2-year look back.
• Family support programs to help balance work and home life.
• Mental health resources.
• Recognition and service awards.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior