Principal Engineer, Design Verification

Job Description

About Marvell

Marvell's semiconductor solutions are the essential building blocks of the data infrastructure that connects our world. Across enterprise, cloud and AI, automotive, and carrier architectures, our innovative technology is enabling new possibilities.

At Marvell, you can affect the arc of individual lives, lift the trajectory of entire industries, and fuel the transformative potential of tomorrow. For those looking to make their mark on purposeful and enduring innovation, above and beyond fleeting trends, Marvell is a place to thrive, learn, and lead.

Your Team, Your Impact

As part of the Design Verification Team at Marvell, you will verify all of the circuitry that goes inside our chips for the general market and for specific customers. These chips use cutting-edge technology to facilitate data transfers at high speeds, and you will help verify that each design meets our customers specifications whether they're a major telecom organization or automotive company, etc.

What You Can Expect

In this role, you will develop the architecture for a functional verification environment, including reference models and bus-functional monitors and drivers and contribute to the methodology behind such development.

Activities May Include

- Writing a verification test plan using random techniques and coverage analysis and working with designers to ensure it is complete.
- Understand IP, Sub system and Develop/Debug issues in Test bench infrastructure for block, sub system or full chip.
- Mentor/Guide Juniors to resolve technical issues.
- Do coverage regression and close it with required metrics
- Developing tests and tuning the environment to achieve coverage goals. Debugging failures and working with designers to resolve issues.
- Verifying boot code and architecting, developing, and maintaining tools to streamline the design of state-of-the-art multi-core SoCs.

What We're Looking For

- BS Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science with 14+ years of design verification experience
- Experience in SOC/Subsystem level/Block verification of ARM-based SOCs;
- Experience in coding system Verilog/ UVM SOC/Subsystem level testbenches, BFM, scoreboards, monitors, etc.
- Experience in Assertion coding and Debugging
- Experience with industry standard peripheral like SMBUS/ I3C/ eMMC/ I2C/ SPI/ UART interfaces.
- Experience with writing a detailed test plan and building a sophisticated, directed, random-verification environment.
- Good to have knowledge of any one standard protocol like DDR,PCIe,Ethernet or USB
- Experience with scripting language such as Python or Perl and EDA Verification tools.

Other Skills

- Diligent, detail-oriented, and willing to take initiative and handle assignments with minimal supervision.
- Requires the ability to accept and work with differing opinions.
- Cannot be a close-minded developer.
- Must be able to learn on the fly and work in a fast-paced environment.

Additional Compensation And Benefit Elements

With competitive compensation and great benefits, you will enjoy our workstyle within an environment of shared collaboration, transparency, and inclusivity. We're dedicated to giving our people the tools and resources they need to succeed in doing work that matters, and to grow and develop with us. For additional information on what it's like to work at Marvell, visit our Careers page.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.

Interview Integrity

As part of our commitment to fair and authentic hiring practices, we ask that candidates do not use AI tools (e.g., transcription apps, real-time answer generators like ChatGPT, CoPilot, or note-taking bots) during interviews.

Our interviews are designed to assess your personal experience, thought process, and communication skills in real-time. If a candidate uses such tools during an interview, they will be disqualified from the hiring process.

This position may require access to technology and/or software subject to U.S. export control laws and regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). As such, applicants must be eligible to access export-controlled information as defined under applicable law. Marvell may be required to obtain export licensing approval from the U.S. Department of Commerce and/or the U.S. Department of State. Except for U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, or protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), all applicants may be subject to an export license review process prior to employment.