Director of SoC Design

Job Title

Director of SoC Design

Role Summary

Lead and build Marvell's new San Diego SoC design organization within the Custom Compute Solutions Business Unit to deliver customer silicon for advanced AI, XPU, and accelerator programs. The role combines technical leadership, team building, and cross-functional program execution from product definition through productization.

This is a founding leadership position: you will hire and mentor engineers, define development methodology, and set technical direction for a new design center focused on high-performance SoC and IP development.

Experience Level

Senior — director-level. Posting requests 12–15+ years of RTL and/or verification experience and 3+ years managing a design team.

Responsibilities

Core responsibilities include technical leadership, team growth, program execution, and process improvement.

• Recruit, build, and manage a cross-functional team of subsystem, co-processor, accelerator, SoC, design, verification, and physical-design engineers.
• Define design strategy, methodologies, infrastructure and tooling to address advanced process, I/O, networking bandwidth, embedded cores, and accelerator challenges.
• Coordinate with architecture, software/firmware, program management, and post-silicon teams from product definition through productization.
• Provide technical mentorship and career development for engineering staff; retain and grow talent.
• Drive improvements in design methodologies, verification techniques, and automation.
• Own project schedules, progress metrics, and regular reporting against budget and market timing requirements.

Requirements

Must-have technical and leadership qualifications; remove education items (see Education Requirements).

• 12–15+ years of RTL design and/or verification experience.
• 3+ years managing an SoC or complex subsystem design team.
• Experience across all phases of silicon development: concept, architecture, execution, and productization.
• Proven ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams and communicate effectively with engineering, marketing, and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated mentoring and talent retention success.
• Experience with advanced semiconductor process technologies, high-speed I/Os, networking bandwidth considerations, embedded cores, and co-processor/accelerator integration.
• Strong judgment in prioritizing work relative to technical value, cost, schedule, and market timing.
• Must be eligible to access export-controlled technology; non-U.S. applicants may be subject to export license review prior to employment.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical Engineering (EE), Computer Engineering (CE), Computer Science (CS), or a related technical field. (Posting specifies "BS degree or higher in EE or CE or CS").

About the Company

Company: Marvell Technology

Headquarters: Santa Clara, California, United States

Marvell’s semiconductor solutions serve as essential building blocks of the data infrastructure connecting our world, driving innovation across enterprise, cloud, AI, and carrier architectures. The company focuses on creating transformative technology that shapes the future.