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Firmware Engineer

Marvell

Marvell

Software Engineering
Córdoba, Cordoba, Argentina
Posted on Mar 6, 2025

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

The Firmware team at Marvell builds highly integrated component platforms with high speed Silicon photonics, transmit and receive amplifiers, controller ASIC’s with Marvell DSP’s. These components are made operational with a highly functional embedded firmware. The team is responsible for design, verification, and validation of these integrated high speed optical components. The team performs system level testing under various operating conditions, and validates the performance of the hardware, firmware and control loops. An engineer in this team will be involved in a full product lifecycle and will carry new products from inception all the way to NPI.

What You Can Expect

  • Work individually, collaboratively, and cross-functionally on the design, implementation, testing, deployment, maintenance, and enhancement of firmware for embedded systems.
  • Collaborate with HW and SW teams on overall design, system requirements, schematics, and hardware validation
  • Optimize firmware for performance, reliability, and power consumption.
  • Participate in design reviews, code reviews, debugging sessions with your team to create reliable solutions
  • Lead bring-ups for next gen Marvell products.
  • Develop and maintain documentation - functional specifications, design documents, test specifications.
  • Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies.
  • Design and implement code unit testing processes
  • Execute frequent releases for internal proprietary firmware and external customers


What We're Looking For

  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
  • 4+ years of experience in embedded software/firmware development
  • Experience with various microprocessor architectures (at least ARM or RISC-V)
  • Excellent team and communications skills; ability to work with a remotely located team
  • RTOS, queuing, memory management, interrupt processing
  • Embedded device driver experience in communications protocols (e.g., SPI, I2C, MDIO, UART)
  • Experience writing control firmware for: CDR, Flash/EEPROM, Laser Driver, TEC Controller
  • Understanding of parameter calibration techniques (e.g., interpolation, splines.)
  • Expert C/Python programming skills
  • Hands-on experience debugging in real world environments with embedded diagnostics tooling such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, JTAG etc
  • Working knowledge of hardware design schematics
  • Working knowledge of version control systems (e.g., git), build environments (IDE, gmake)
  • Excellent English language skills
  • Excellent multitasking skills

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.

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