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Principal or Senior Principal Engineer, Architecture ASIC / System

Marvell Technology
Santa Clara, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 9/19/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/17/2025
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

Marvell’s Compute and Custom Solutions organization (CCS) is looking for a talented senior ASIC architect/engineer to join our architecture team. This team acts as the central technical interface to our datacenter clients. It is responsible for the overall technology choice, silicon partitioning strategy, IP definition and selection and architectural guidance of datacenter products (SmartNIC, servers, AI accelerators and switches, mainly) for the main hyperscalers and companies worldwide. We actively participate in the definition of next generation datacenter products with our clients and respond to their ASIC RFQs. Role spans engagement with both customers and internal technology teams to define the best solution to the custom product needs and includes all functions required to build, test and manufacture an advanced custom silicon System in a Package.

What You Can Expect

In this role you will be responsible for:

  • Engaging with customers, engineering, and marketing to lead chip architecture of innovative and complex datacenter products
  • Specifying IP and technology requirements, and working with Central Engineering to drive their development
  • Identifying the best silicon partitioning, IP selection, packaging technology
  • Taking on leadership roles for a broad spectrum of tasks needed to prepare solutions to customer problems and asks
  • Mapping Marvell solutions into highly effective presentations and sharing with customers
  • Identifying early patterns in the requests for future products and using this insight to help drive technology investment at Marvell and/or with our partners
  • Overseeing and coordinating IP evaluation, IP block microarchitecture, pinouts, cost estimates, and power estimates
  • Communicating and coordinating with other business units in Marvell on internal IP and sharing/leveraging capabilities and knowledge
  • Presenting trainings to peers, helping develop the team, and mentoring other architects/engineers
  • Continuous self-development and training to keep up with current and next generation data center architectures and requirements.
  • Representing Marvell at conferences and industry events to help share/promote our brand and capabilities

*Any Marvell office location in North America can be considered for this position for the right candidate*

What We're Looking For

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related fields and 10 years of related professional experience. Or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related fields with 8 years of experience. Or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related fields with 5 years of experience.

  • A minimum of 8 years of experience in system architecture development or in ASIC architectures or in IP/technology development and related fields
  • Experience with microarchitecture specifications, SoC architectures, on-die NoCs, networking protocols and/or software engineering are a plus
  • Experience/knowledge with/of system architectures for datacenter products strongly appreciated
  • Experience building a custom ASIC from architecture through to post silicon validation a valuable advantage
  • Demonstrated technical leadership delivering complex silicon solutions.
  • Excellent presence in front of the customer and ability to present complex technical solutions to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • 100% team player
  • Proven ability to be a self starter and innovator with a drive to bring an idea to reality
  • Thrives in dynamic environments and through uncertainty and change
  • Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in periods of high pressure

Expected Base Pay Range (USD)

177,380 - 265,700, $ 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

At Marvell, we offer a total compensation package with a base, bonus and equity.Health and financial wellbeing are part of the package. That means flexible time off, 401k, plus a year-end shutdown, floating holidays, paid time off to volunteer. Have a question about our benefits packages - health or financial? Ask your recruiter during the interview process.

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.

Any applicant who requires a reasonable accommodation during the selection process should contact Marvell HR Helpdesk at TAOps@marvell.com.

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.

Salary : $177,380 - $265,700

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