Principal Hardware Engineer - 3rd Party IP Engineer

Marvell Technology • Morrisville, NC

17d

About The Position

The Principal Hardware Engineer will join Marvell’s Central Engineering business group as part of the 3rd party IP management team. The team brings subcontracted IP under the Marvell IP umbrella for use across the company’s Storage, Security, Networking, and other businesses.

The role focuses on integrating third-party DDR, LPDDR, GDDR, HBM, and eMMC memory-interface cores for customer designs. The engineer will participate in all stages of SoC development, including defining core requirements, assessing IP developers, overseeing core development, ensuring technology and test compliance, integrating cores, and supporting silicon validation. The position involves working across Marvell with sales, design centers, and external IP providers. Post-silicon validation at customer sites may require limited travel.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field and 10–15 years of related professional experience; or a Master’s degree and/or Ph.D. in those fields with 5–10 years of experience.
• Proficient understanding of DDR, LPDDR, GDDR, HBM, and eMMC interfaces, including SoC PHY integration, timing analysis, packaging, and multi-chip integrated packaging challenges.
• Proficiency in project management tasks required to manage third-party developers.
• Broad-based exposure to ASIC design flows for releasing a chip to fabrication, including logic synthesis, physical design, timing, DRC/LVS, formal verification, and electrical checking.
• Good understanding of Design-For-Test concepts, including DFT logic insertion, test generation, scan, and embedded core testing.
• Good communication and customer management skills.
• Ability to undertake limited travel for post-silicon validation at customer sites.

Responsibilities

• Assist sales in winning bids by working with leading-edge IP providers to meet customer requirements.
• Manage third-party developers as they complete core designs and provide required design rules.
• Advise Marvell design centers on integrating cores into custom silicon designs.
• Hold joint reviews with design centers and third-party IP providers.
• Develop statements of work and lead provider progress reviews.
• Use third-party developer problem-reporting tools to drive issues to resolution.
• Assist with 8D follow-through for significant supplier issues.
• Participate in SoC development activities, including defining core requirements, assessing IP developer competence, overseeing development, ensuring technology and test compliance, integrating cores, and supporting silicon validation.

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.
• Mental health resources.
• Recognition and service awards.

What This Job Offers

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