Firmware Engineer

Job Title

Firmware Engineer

Role Summary

Join the Platform Engineering team to design, develop, and maintain embedded firmware for board, switch, and optics hardware across next-generation platform solutions. The role focuses on bootloaders, device drivers, platform management firmware, hardware bring-up, and low-level debug in multi-disciplinary projects.

You will work closely with hardware design, ASIC, signal/power integrity, validation, and systems software teams to ensure firmware is robust, secure, and production-ready throughout the platform lifecycle. This is a technically visible role that provides firmware architecture expertise and lead-level debug support.

Experience Level

Senior - experience guidance: approximately 10–15 years of relevant professional firmware experience (or 5–10 years with an advanced degree).

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include firmware development, hardware bring-up support, and ensuring production readiness for platform firmware.

• Design, develop, and maintain embedded firmware, boot software, and device drivers for high-speed silicon, memory, interconnect, and power/thermal subsystems.
• Support early hardware bring-up and debug prototype systems and firmware/hardware interactions.
• Develop and maintain platform management controller firmware and remote monitoring/control interfaces.
• Implement low-level link establishment and control-plane logic between optical modules and host interfaces for reliable high-speed connectivity.
• Design communication interfaces for pluggable modules and implement firmware memory architecture, access controls, and firmware-updatable power sequencing.
• Design and implement secure firmware update mechanisms (signed images, verified boot, remote management APIs) with recovery and independent updatability.
• Develop embedded telemetry to collect high-frequency system metrics and stream to host with minimal performance impact.
• Build and maintain automated firmware build, test, and release infrastructure; support manufacturing test integration with production images.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation; identify platform integration risks and drive mitigation and resolution.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience for this role. Education details are summarized under Education Requirements below.

• Strong proficiency in C/C++ for embedded firmware and low-level driver development.
• Scripting skills for automation (Python or Bash).
• Experience developing low-level boot and platform initialization firmware for embedded systems.
• Solid understanding of high-speed system architecture, signal interfaces, and peripheral communication protocols.
• Experience with platform management controller firmware and remote system management interfaces.
• Hands-on experience with embedded operating systems, low-level drivers, and memory-mapped hardware interfaces.
• Practical experience using lab-based debug equipment to isolate firmware/hardware interaction issues.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated firmware test infrastructure.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and debug skills with accountability and urgency.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with networking silicon platforms from major industry vendors.
• Familiarity with industry security assurance standards for firmware.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field (typical experience: 10–15 years). Alternatively, Master's degree or PhD in a related technical field with roughly 5–10 years of experience. The posting references technical degrees in CS and EE and allows advanced-degree alternatives; equivalent practical experience may be considered.

This position may require access to export-controlled technology; applicants must meet export eligibility requirements where applicable. Reasonable accommodation requests during the selection process can be directed to Marvell HR Helpdesk at TAOps@marvell.com.

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.