Senior Staff Engineer Digital IC Build Flow and Methodology

Marvell Technology • Westborough, MA

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About The Position

We are seeking a Senior Engineer to architect, implement, and maintain scalable build scripts and front-end methodology for complex digital IC designs. This role focuses on improving compilation, elaboration, simulation, and regression flow across block, subsystem, and full-chip designs, with an emphasis on performance, correctness, and developer productivity. The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering skills with deep understanding of ASIC/SoC design workflows and EDA tooling and enjoys owning end-end infrastructure used daily by large design and verification teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degrees in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in ASIC/SoC design, verification, or methodology roles.
• Strong programming skills in Python and at least one of TCL, C/C++, or shell scripting.
• Experience with make-based or graph-based build systems.
• Understanding of front-end chip design flows.
• Experience debugging large-scale infrastructure issues.
• Familiarity with EDA toolchains.
• Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with next-generation or programmable build flows.
• CI systems such as Jenkins.
• Multi-chip or chiplet-based designs.
• Bazel or similar dependency-graph build systems.
• Compute-farm environments.
• Mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain chip design build flows supporting block, subsystem, full-chip, and multi-chip simulations.
• Develop and own build scripts and orchestration logic for compile, elaborate, simulate, and regression workflows.
• Improve build performance through dependency analysis, incremental builds, caching, and flow optimization.
• Define and evolve methodology standards for front-end design and verification flows.
• Architect and enhance CI / pre-submit verification flows to improve quality and turnaround time.
• Integrate and support industry EDA tools within robust scripted flows.
• Collaborate with RTL, DV, methodology, and infrastructure teams.
• Debug complex infrastructure and build-system issues.
• Drive adoption through documentation and training.

Benefits

• employee stock purchase plan with a 2-year look back
• family support programs
• robust mental health resources
• recognition and service awards

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees