Marvell Technology

Design Verification Infrastructure Sr. Staff Engineer

Marvell Technology$127K — $191K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's/PhD in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • 3-5 years of relevant experience (2-3 years with advanced degrees)
  • Expertise in Python for clean, testable code and command-line tools
  • Familiarity with Linux environments and Git version control
  • Fundamental understanding of data structures, especially graphs/DAGs
  • Experience with CI/CD processes
  • Strong written communication skills for distributed team collaboration

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop core components of the Python framework for ASIC verification
  • Build backend abstractions for simulators, ensuring flexibility in simulator integration
  • Create self-contained failure bundles for efficient debugging
  • Integrate compute-grid jobs, CI processes, and MCP endpoints
  • Support AI integration by developing reusable agent skills and evaluation harnesses
  • Deploy and manage the framework across verification teams, ensuring reliability in production
  • Document procedures for team-wide flow adoption

Benefits

  • Employee stock purchase plan with a two-year look back
  • Family support programs to balance work and personal life
  • Robust mental health resources for emotional well-being
  • Recognition awards for outstanding contributions and milestones
Full Job Description
Your Team, Your Impact

Marvell's Central CAD engineering group is building next-generation AI-integrated ASIC design verification flow. A deterministic Python framework owns everything that decides pass/fail and everything that must be reproducible - build, run, verdict, coverage, and the quality gates - while an AI layer sits on top for the judgment-heavy work: deciding what to run, triaging failures, and proposing fixes that a human approves. The rule is straightforward: AI proposes, the deterministic framework disposes, a human approves. You will design and own the Python components at the heart of that framework and put them in the hands of the DV engineers who depend on them every day. It is hands-on, high-ownership work with a short path from your code to real impact - the engineers you are building for sit right next to you.

What You Can Expect
  • Design and own core Python framework components: the declarative build graph and its importer, the run-record store that makes every run reproducible, coverage merge, and verdict logic

  • Build the simulator backend abstraction - command generation and capability modeling for Cadence Xcelium (MSIE incremental elaboration) and Synopsys VCS - so adding a simulator is a new backend and nothing else changes


  • Assemble self-contained, token-efficient failure bundles (waveforms, logs, run-record fields, testbench configuration, and source pointers) so downstream agents can debug in one place


  • Wire the integrations: compute-grid job submission, the results dashboard, CI for the gate-blocking changelist path, and the MCP endpoints the agents consume


  • Support the AI layer without owning any ML: author reusable agent skills and prompts, build evaluation harnesses to measure triage and fix quality, and enforce the deterministic guardrails around the agents


  • Package, deploy, and operate the flow - roll it out to verification teams across sites, then monitor and troubleshoot in production


  • Write the docs and reusable procedures that let the rest of the org adopt the flow


What We're Looking For
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related fields and 3-5 years of related professional experience or Master's degree and/or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related fields with 2-3 years of experience or equivalent professional experience in lieu of a formal degree
  • Strong, idiomatic Python: clean, testable code and solid command-line tooling
  • Comfort on Linux and the command line, and with Git
  • Solid data-structures fundamentals, including graphs/DAGs - the build model is a dependency graph
  • Working knowledge of CI/CD
  • Self-directed: can take a well-scoped problem and deliver a component end to end
  • Clear written communication; the team is collaborative and distributed across time zones


Preferred
  • Hardware-verification fundamentals and exposure to SystemVerilog/UVM
  • Hands-on with an EDA simulator - Cadence Xcelium and/or Synopsys VCS
  • Coverage concepts: collection, merge, and closure
  • Comfort using AI coding agents, with a habit of critically evaluating their output
  • Exposure to MCP or other agent/tool integration
  • Familiarity with compute-grid job scheduling (LSF, SLURM, or SGE)


Expected Base Pay Range (USD)
127,630 - 191,200, $ per annum

The successful candidate's starting base pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location and market conditions. The expected base pay range for this role may be modified based on market conditions.

Additional Compensation and Benefit Elements
Marvell is committed to providing exceptional, comprehensive benefits that support our employees at every stage - from internship to retirement and through life's most important moments. Our offerings are built around four key pillars: financial well-being, family support, mental and physical health, and recognition. Highlights include an employee stock purchase plan with a 2-year look back, family support programs to help balance work and home life, robust mental health resources to prioritize emotional well-being, and a recognition and service awards to celebrate contributions and milestones. We look forward to sharing more with you during the interview process.

Interview Integrity

To support fair and authentic hiring practices, candidates are not permitted to use AI tools (such as transcription apps, real-time answer generators like ChatGPT or Copilot, or automated note-taking bots) during interviews.

These tools must not be used to record, assist with, or enhance responses in any way. Our interviews are designed to evaluate your individual experience, thought process, and communication skills in real time. Use of AI tools without prior instruction from the interviewer will result in disqualification 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.

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About Marvell Technology

Marvell Technology is a semiconductor company that designs and develops analog, mixed-signal, and digital signal processing integrated circuits. The company's product portfolio includes processors, connectivity, storage, and security solutions. Marvell's customers operate in various industries, including data center, enterprise, automotive, industrial, and consumer electronics. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
Learn more about Marvell Technology
Size
6,729 employees
Market Cap
$30.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$277.3 million
Founded
2013
5 Year Trend
+14.2%
Revenue
$2.9 billion
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