Director Silicon Validation & Application Engineering

About Marvell

Marvell's semiconductor solutions are the essential building blocks of the data infrastructure that connects our world. Across enterprise, cloud and AI, 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 Custom Compute & Storage - CCS BU has been at the forefront of developing and delivering leading-edge, high-performance data processing silicon platforms. By delivering a stream of technical innovations through a diverse set of fastgrowing product lines, Marvell technology is powering the nextgeneration data processing and workload acceleration platforms for the Cloud/Enterprise and Custom Compute market segments. The team focusses on the Custom ASIC business, Cloud AI solutions & Enterprise/Career solutions including Storage, Accelerator and CXL product line.
This is a niche area at Marvell, working with cutting edge technologies used by many internal and external customers around the world. This team plays a central role in Marvell, ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of our MRVL Custom ASIC products. This role begins early in the design process and is central to enabling the rapid production ramps and demands of our hyper-scaler customers.The Custom Silicon team is responsible for the pre-silicon validation, post-silicon validation,Serdes Engineering tools and applications engineering for all Custom Silicon products. The CSE team plays a critical role in ensuring that the products are successfully released to production. The CSE teams are in USA, Japan, Singapore and India.

The CSE team charter is to deliver tested, ready for production products and tools with quality exceeding customer expectations. To achieve this goal, the CSE team partners with IP and Central engineering, SOC engineering, Firmware engineering, Operations and PMO teams. We focus on customer satisfaction and A0-to-production mindset.

What You Can Expect

Role Summary

We are seeking a seasoned Hardware Validation Director to lead end-to-end validation of complex systems-including functional, electrical, board-level, production/qualification, and customer engagement-for high-performanceStorage controllers, networking, and compute platforms.

The ideal candidate has experience across Flash technologies including NVME, PCIe and DDR (DDR4/DDR5/LPDDR5) subsystems and thrives in cross-functional environments spanning silicon, firmware, system, andmanufacturing. This role is both technical and customer-facing, responsible for defining strategy, building validation frameworks, ensuring quality at scale, and guiding customers through deployment and issue resolution.

Responsibilities

• Lead the functional validation team in developing comprehensive test cases for every subsystem within the SoC.
• Reviewsubsystem test coverage and guide the team through test development, implementation, and execution.
• Track progress, identify gaps, and adjust plans as needed to meet project goals and timelines.
• Collaborate closely with design and software teams to drive issue root cause analysis, resolve blockers, and report status and risks to leadership.
• Manage and mentor multiple validation teams, set performance goals, drive productivity, and support talent retention and hiring.
• Provide strategic direction to prepare the team for future, more complex projects.
• Lead end to end validation efforts, including pre silicon (emulation), early bring up, and post silicon through high volume production.
• Champion a strong quality mindset and ensure thorough validation processes.
• Identify validation gaps and proactively ensure they are addressed with a continuous improvement mindset
• Represent the validation team in the cross functional team and customer meetings

What We're Looking For

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 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

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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