Senior Staff Hardware Design Engineer
About The Position
Marvell is hiring a Senior Staff Hardware Design Engineer to develop hardware platforms for coherent digital signal processors used in high-speed fiber-optic networks. Based in Marvell’s Irvine, California office, the role requires onsite work five days per week; remote and hybrid arrangements are unavailable. The engineer will work at the intersection of high-speed electronics, optical communications, and system engineering, helping turn coherent DSP technology into reference designs and evaluation platforms for cloud and telecommunications networks. The role owns complex board-level designs across architecture, simulation, fabrication, bring-up, characterization, and validation. This includes reference boards and evaluation systems supporting 400G/800G-per-wavelength optical transmission, with power delivery, control, clocking, high-speed I/O, and form-factor requirements. The engineer will address signal-integrity bandwidths exceeding 110 GHz, power integrity, system requirements, board failures, and manufacturing considerations, while working across engineering teams and external partners.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Electronic Engineering, or a related discipline.
- At least five years of relevant experience in high-speed board-level hardware design.
- Ability to independently drive complex hardware designs through development, bring-up, and validation.
- Experience designing systems incorporating power circuits, analog circuitry, clocking, FPGAs, microprocessors, microcontrollers, memory, Ethernet, SerDes, or related technologies.
- Proficiency in schematic capture and component library management using OrCAD CIS/CIP, Altium, or equivalent tools.
- Experience with high-frequency signal-integrity simulation using Ansys HFSS, SIwave, Keysight ADS, or equivalent tools, and characterization using vector network analyzers and time-domain reflectometry.
- Experience with analog and power circuit design and simulation using PSpice or equivalent tools.
- Experience working with PCB layout engineers and board manufacturers to establish component placement, layer stack-ups, routing constraints, and fabrication requirements.
- Hands-on expertise in board bring-up, testing, characterization, and failure analysis using digital multimeters, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and related laboratory equipment.
- Ability to correlate simulations with measured results, explain discrepancies, and turn findings into effective design improvements.
- Clear technical communication, thorough documentation, and effective collaboration across engineering teams and external suppliers.
Responsibilities
- Take technical ownership of complex board-level designs from architecture and simulation through bring-up, characterization, and validation.
- Develop reference boards and evaluation systems for coherent DSP platforms supporting 400G/800G-per-wavelength optical transmission.
- Architect, simulate, and characterize high-speed interconnects and signal paths with bandwidth requirements exceeding 110 GHz, correlating simulations with laboratory measurements.
- Design and simulate power circuits and power distribution networks for high-performance coherent DSPs.
- Collaborate with systems, analog, digital, firmware, design-for-test, failure analysis, validation, and applications engineers to define requirements and resolve design tradeoffs.
- Lead board bring-up and debug with hardware and firmware engineers, establish initial functionality, isolate issues, and drive corrective actions.
- Develop and execute board validation plans, analyze results, and produce reports documenting performance, issues, and recommendations.
- Perform board-level failure analysis, identify root causes, and define repairs or design improvements.
- Work with PCB layout engineers, fabrication suppliers, and assembly partners to define component placement, stack-ups, routing constraints, and design rules.
- Provide technical guidance, participate in design reviews, and contribute improvements to engineering execution.
Benefits
- Eligible to participate in bonus and equity plans, including a new-hire equity grant and annual equity refreshers.
- Employee stock purchase plan with a two-year look back.
- Family support programs.
- Mental health resources.
- Recognition and service awards.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
