Staff Engineer, Hardware Application Engineering — Lab Operations

Marvell Technology • Santa Clara, CA

8d • $111,070 - $166,400

About The Position

The Staff Engineer for Lab Operations owns end-to-end responsibility for Marvell’s Customer Solutions Group (CSG) hardware lab in Santa Clara. This senior individual-contributor role is accountable for lab infrastructure, equipment lifecycle, setup integrity, inventory, RMA setup readiness, vendor relationships, budget execution, and remote-lab enablement for Marvell’s worldwide CSG and engineering teams. The position also manages logistics for customer demonstrations and industry tradeshows, ensuring that technical teams have reliable, ready-to-use equipment and setups.

The role maintains a disciplined, reliable lab environment across supported platforms, including test setup assembly, calibration, preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, documentation, and lifecycle management. It coordinates lab organization and layout, renovation and expansion projects, and infrastructure needs with facilities and physical security teams. Responsibilities also include equipment sourcing and inventory, spare and consumable readiness, RMA test setup readiness, vendor management, budget tracking, and advising leadership on equipment needs and capability planning.

The position enables remote access to Santa Clara lab setups for worldwide team members, coordinates with labs in other geographies, and oversees customer demo and tradeshow equipment planning, shipping, setup, teardown, and return. It partners with hardware design, SI/PI, silicon, software, and operations teams to anticipate lab needs as platforms ramp. The role is based around the Santa Clara lab; the posting does not specify a workplace type or work schedule.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 7 years of hands-on hardware lab and validation engineering experience.
• Demonstrated experience running or owning a hardware lab, including equipment lifecycle, setups, calibration, maintenance, inventory, and safety.
• Working familiarity with high-speed test and measurement equipment, including oscilloscopes, BERTs, VNAs, TDR, jitter analyzers, logic analyzers, power supplies, electronic loads, and compliance test kits; ability to operate, configure, and troubleshoot instruments.
• General understanding of high-speed networking and SerDes test concepts, including eye-opening, BER, jitter, return loss, PDN behavior, and thermal validation, sufficient to set up and maintain test environments and troubleshoot setup issues.
• Vendor management experience, including sourcing, quoting, negotiating, and managing service and RMA cycles with major test equipment vendors.
• Experience executing against operational budgets and reporting against plan.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to maintain a complex, multi-platform lab under continuous project pressure.
• Experience supporting customer demos, tradeshows, or executive engagements and owning logistics end-to-end.
• Experience working with facilities and security teams on lab infrastructure, build-outs, and access controls.
• Excellent communication and coordination skills for working across engineering teams, vendors, and global Marvell sites.
• Must be eligible to access export-controlled information under applicable law; applicants may be subject to an export license review process.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting labs that test Ethernet switching, AI fabric, or high-speed networking platforms.
• Familiarity with remote lab access infrastructure such as KVM-over-IP, equipment automation frameworks, lab reservation systems, and secure remote control of instrumentation.
• Experience coordinating with global engineering labs across multiple time zones.
• Experience maintaining RMA or failure-analysis test setups and ensuring readiness for field-return units.
• Experience with lab renovation, expansion, or new-site build-out projects.
• Familiarity with lab safety standards, ESD controls, and asset or audit compliance practices in a semiconductor environment.
• Experience supporting customer demos at major industry tradeshows such as OCP, OFC, SC, or Hot Chips.

Responsibilities

• Own the Santa Clara CSG lab’s equipment, setups, organization, safety, and day-to-day operational health across supported platforms.
• Maintain test setups end-to-end, including assembly, calibration schedules, preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, documentation, and lifecycle management.
• Drive lab organization, layout, and signage so engineers and visiting customers can locate equipment, setups, and instrumentation quickly.
• Lead lab renovation and expansion projects, including scoping, planning, vendor coordination, and execution.
• Partner with facilities and physical security teams on power, cooling, cabling, room build-outs, access controls, and visitor protocols.
• Manage lab equipment inventory, including tagging, asset tracking, location and utilization tracking, and end-of-life planning.
• Maintain adequate spares, cables, fixtures, and consumables to keep setups running without interruption.
• Maintain dedicated RMA test setups, test programs, and instrumentation so they are ready to receive and process field-returned chips, including test-hole-plug coverage and retest readiness.
• Build and maintain relationships with test equipment vendors, integrators, and service providers.
• Source and evaluate equipment, analyze quotes, and recommend purchases based on technical fit, cost, lead time, and long-term support.
• Stay current on the test and measurement ecosystem to help keep lab capabilities aligned with high-speed and AI infrastructure validation needs.
• Execute the annual lab equipment and operating budget set by leadership; track spending, manage purchase orders, and report against plan.
• Advise leadership on equipment needs, refresh cycles, and capability gaps, providing quotes, technical recommendations, and ROI input for planning.
• Enable reliable worldwide access to Santa Clara lab setups for debugging and testing by maintaining connectivity and setup readiness.
• Maintain remote-access uptime through setup-state preservation, equipment readiness, connectivity monitoring, and recovery when issues occur.
• Coordinate with labs in Israel, India, and other locations on shared setups, equipment loans, and cross-site resource utilization.
• Own customer demo and industry tradeshow logistics, including planning, equipment selection, shipping, on-site setup, teardown, and return.
• Coordinate with engineers delivering technical content so they can use working setups and focus on customer engagement.
• Partner with hardware design, SI/PI, silicon, software, and operations teams to anticipate lab needs as new platforms ramp.
• Work with facilities and security teams on space planning, infrastructure upgrades, and access policies.
• Provide operational support that enables the CSG team to perform its technical work.

Benefits

• Eligible to participate in Marvell’s 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: Senior