Your Team, Your Impact
Marvell is a leading provider of innovative technologies, including ultra-fast read channels, high-performance processors, leading edge transceivers, highly efficient analog designs, and powerful cryptographic engines. These solutions address all segments of the hard disk drive (HDD) and solid-state drive (SSD) electronics markets, providing complete solutions including controllers, product firmware, and reference board designs. Many of the same technologies have been utilized in Marvell system solutions products, powering PCs, servers, cloud, and enterprise systems.

This position is for the optics DCI (Data Center Interconnect) Firmware team which develops embedded software for Marvell's high speed coherent fiber transceivers used for scale across communication, moving data between data centers worldwide. This position will involve in product requirement definition and analysis, feature and device driver development, Application and API development, testing, and issue debugging, etc.

What You Can Expect
• Evaluate and define the DCI product firmware feature requirements.
• Design, implement and optimize DCI FW features and make it optimized and reusable for other products.
• Perform failure analysis by using various tools and equipment (identify issues, duplicate problems and fix the issues).
• Work across teams/sites, which includes but not limits to: Application and project management team on requirements, DVT team on feature and performance analysis and improvement, Hardware team on hardware schematics review, Architecture team on standard.

What We're Looking For

Required:

• Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related technical fields.
• 5+ years of experience in memory constrained embedded system development.
• 3+ years of experience of firmware development on device driver and peripherals like I2C, I3C, SPI, etc.
• Strong programming skills using C and python.
• Good understanding and experience on RTOS.
• Understanding of embedded SoC, micro-controller architecture (RISC-V a plus), memory-mapped hardware interfaces, GPIOs, ISRs.
• Comprehension of hardware design schematics.
• Familiarity with lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, multimeter, power supplies, logic analyzer, and debuggers like JTAG.
• Strong problem-solving and customer debug skills on real hardware in the lab.
• Highly effective communication and presentation.

Preferred:

• Experience with Optical Transceivers, Coherent DSP, Laser, optical components, PID control.
• Experience with developing/debugging Linux device driver, software state machines, context saving, error handling.
• Knowledge of OIF CMIS, OSFP, SFP, optics, git, Makefile, gdb, IDEs, bash.
• Understanding of signal processing: histograms, BER, SNR, sampling phase, Shannon limit, impulse & frequency response, FFT, etc.

Expected Base Pay Range (CAD)
98,100 - 130,800, $ per annum

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.

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.

Marvell may employ artificial intelligence technologies to assist in the evaluation of job applications. All application reviews include meaningful human involvement, and no hiring decisions are made solely on the basis of automated processing.

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