2 days ago
Santa Clara, CA, USASenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$167k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain embedded firmware, boot software, and device drivers for networking platform hardware.
- Support early hardware bring-up by debugging prototype systems and firmware interactions with hardware and silicon teams.
- Develop platform-management controller firmware and remote monitoring and control interfaces.
- Implement control-plane logic, low-level link-establishment routines, communication interfaces, memory architecture, access controls, and power sequencing for platform components.
- Design secure firmware update mechanisms using signed images, verified boot, remote management APIs, recovery, and independent updatability.
- Develop embedded telemetry firmware that collects high-frequency system metrics and streams them to host memory.
- Build automated firmware build, test, and release infrastructure and support manufacturing-test integration.
- Define firmware requirements and interfaces with hardware, silicon, validation, and systems software teams and provide technical documentation.
- Identify firmware and platform-integration risks, develop mitigation strategies, and drive issue resolution.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with 10–15 years of related professional experience, or a master’s degree and/or PhD in a related technical field with 5–10 years of experience.
- Strong proficiency in C/C++ for embedded firmware and low-level driver development.
- Scripting experience in Python or Bash for automation.
- Experience developing low-level boot and platform-initialization firmware for embedded systems.
- Understanding of high-speed system architecture, signal interfaces, and peripheral communication protocols.
- Experience with platform-management controller firmware and remote system-management interfaces.
- Hands-on experience with embedded operating systems, low-level drivers, and memory-mapped hardware interfaces.
- Hands-on experience using lab-based debug equipment to isolate firmware and hardware interaction issues.
- Experience with networking silicon platforms from major industry vendors is preferred.
- Experience with continuous-integration pipelines and automated firmware test infrastructure.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills, with urgency and accountability.
Benefits
- Expected base pay is $166,520–$249,500 per annum, with eligibility for bonus and equity plans; compensation figures are excluded from benefit details.
- Employee stock purchase plan with a two-year lookback.
- Family support programs, mental health resources, and other comprehensive financial, family, physical-health, recognition, and service-award benefits.
- The role may require eligibility for access to export-controlled technology and may involve an export-license review process for certain applicants.
About Marvell
Marvell designs and sells semiconductors for data infrastructure, including Ethernet switching and PHYs, optical and 5G connectivity, storage controllers, and custom compute silicon (ASICs/DPUs) used by cloud providers, telecom carriers, and enterprise OEMs. Its business model centers on selling chips and platform solutions and co-developing custom silicon with major customers. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Santa Clara, it is a public company traded on NASDAQ (MRVL).