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Senior Principal Engineer, Digital IC Design

Marvell Technology
June 10, 2026
Full-time
On-site
Morrisville, North Carolina, United States
$184,400 - $272,950 USD yearly
RTL Design Jobs, Level - Senior

Job Title

Senior Principal Engineer, Digital IC Design

Role Summary

Lead architecture definition, micro-architecture, RTL development and HW/SW co-design for advanced CXL and SoC products. Work across cross-functional teams to deliver production silicon and drive productization.

Experience Level

Senior-level. The posting specifies extensive experience: typically 15–25+ years depending on academic degree (see Education Requirements for details).

Responsibilities

Core responsibilities include:

  • Define architecture and micro-architecture for SoC/IP targeting CXL and data-center products.
  • Perform performance modeling and system-level analysis to meet product requirements.
  • Develop RTL and lead HW/SW co-design efforts across teams.
  • Drive designs from architecture through tape-out, post-silicon validation, and productization.
  • Lead cross-functional teams and mentor engineers to improve productivity and quality.
  • Engage with customers to translate workload requirements into hardware/IP specifications.
  • Monitor industry trends and propose incremental and forklift improvements.

Requirements

Must-have skills and experience:

  • Deep understanding of SoC architecture, processor cores, memory and peripheral interfaces.
  • Proven track record leading SoC and IP development and delivering production silicon.
  • Experience taking designs through tape-out and post-silicon bring-up to productization.
  • Strong system-level performance modeling and HW/SW co-design experience.
  • Excellent communication, presentation and cross-functional leadership skills.
  • Ability to interact with customers and translate application/workload needs to hardware specifications.
  • Self-driven, highly motivated, with curiosity to learn new technologies.

Nice-to-have:

  • Prior work on CXL or composable datacenter technologies.
  • Experience driving productivity improvements and tooling for RTL/SoC flows.

Education Requirements

Required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field with 25+ years of related professional experience; or a Master’s degree and/or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related fields with ~15–20 years of related experience.


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.

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Date Posted: 2026-06-11