Marvell is looking to hire a Hardware and Silicon Validation Senior Staff Engineer to help deliver high bandwidth over long distances by performing analog validations on amplifiers that drive optical electronic devices and receivers, validating silicon photonics, doing upper electronic measurements, and supporting the coherent digital signal programming unit.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of high-speed SERDES, equalization technique and PCIe protocols.
- 6-10 years experience with High Speed IO testing, debugging and validation.
- Strong lab skills with hands on experience, in system bring up, system testing and debug.
- In-depth working knowledge of test equipment used for SERDES characterization (Scope, BERT, Network analyzer, etc.).
- Working knowledge of PCIe interface and characterization.
- Extensive knowledge of the physical and protocol levels (PIPE I/F, PCS, MAC) of one or more common high-speed interfaces is an asset.
- Working experience with Perl or Python.
Responsibilities
- Manage PHY IP Validation in post-silicon environment including defining, documenting, executing, and reporting the overall PHY validation/test plan for Marvell storage devices.
- Conduct lab-based silicon bring-up and unit test execution focused on PCIe Physical and PCS layer hardware and firmware functionality, while also extending to the protocol layer of the PCIe stack.
- Perform high speed signal validation and analysis using various test equipment to measure Eye diagram/Jitter/BER.
- Analyze and debug issues on PHY protocol of storage interface (SATA, SAS, PCIe, Ethernet).
- Troubleshoot failing tests using diagnostics, software tools, hardware analyzers, oscilloscopes, meters, logic/protocol analyzers.
- Lead collaborative technical discussions to drive resolution on technical issues.
- Work with cross-functional teams and external vendors to debug any post-silicon and/or customer issues related to PHY IPs.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related fields and 5-10 years of related professional experience.
- Master’s degree and/or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related fields with 3-5 years of experience.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.
- 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.
- 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.
