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Marvell Technology

Analog Design Engineer, Senior Principal

Marvell Technology

📍 Pavia, Italy 🇮🇹

full-time
senior
on-site
Posted —
Key Skills
analog transceivers SerDes layout EDA
Industry
Semiconductor Telecommunications

Job Description

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

Central Engineering – The Optical PHY (CE-OPHY) team designs high-speed and optical transceivers for communication infrastructure in long-haul, metro, and data centers. We address the bandwidth, capacity, and power issues faced by cloud computing and mega data centers that power the social media giant platforms. Our innovative approaches have resulted in the company’s products being first to market in many key areas, developing the most advanced chips and subsystem solutions to address the ever-increasing demand for higher data rates driven by video-on-demand, gaming, and other real-time data streams.

What You Can Expect

  • Analyze block specifications and select appropriate topologies.
  • Design analog blocks at the transistor level.
  • Supervise layout activities, provide guidelines and conduct post-layout verifications.
  • Model blocks and validate models.
  • Collaborate with other teams to enhance existing solutions.
  • Take responsibility for designing entire analog macros or IPs.
  • Participate in cross-functional meetings and interact with other functions.
  • Manage both pre-silicon and post-silicon tasks through to mass production.
  • Train and mentor junior designers.
  • Location: Pavia, Italy.
  • Work Model: Full-time, on-site.

What We're Looking For

  • Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, preferably with a specialization in Microelectronics, or a related field, with 15+ years of work experience.
  • PhD in Electrical Engineering, preferably with a specialization in Microelectronics, or a related field, with 12+ years of work experience.
  • Proven experience in autonomously designing ICs from architecture definition to lab characterization, with full macro/IP ownership, and successfully bringing them into volume production.
  • Solid proficiency in analog design, preferably in the multi-GHz range
  • Extensive experience in performing or supervising analog custom layout
  • Strong familiarity with EDA CAD tools
  • Expertise in measuring IC performance and debugging designs to correlate simulations with measurements
  • Direct project experience in at least one of the following areas a plus:
  • - Multi-Gbps electrical SerDes or electro-optical transceivers
  • - Advance CMOS nodes, including FinFET
  • Strong communication, presentation and documentation skills
  • Proficiency in both spoken and written Italian and English (B2 level or higher)

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.

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.

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.