Engineer, Staff Firmware Job in Santa Clara 94067, California Us
Marvell. Moving Forward Faster.
Marvell offers revolutionary devices that touch every point of the communications infrastructure: switching, transceivers, wireless, PC connectivity, communications controllers, and storage. Our continuous cycle of innovations has enabled Marvell to consistently deliver the industry’s gold standard, emerging as the market leader in virtually all of our product categories.
Position Description:
Responsible for winning designs and managing accounts on a technical level.
Develop flash/disk host firmware for evaluating Marvell products and develop code for use in the customer drive application. Familiarity with ARM tools a strong plus.
Lead development effort for internal testing suite to maintain standard compliance, chip maturity and consistency. Covering all OOB and power mode related test cases to ensure early problem discovery.
Provides technical support to customers including customer visits and field design support.
Acts as a primary technical interface between the company and the customer.
Establishes Goals and Objectives with the sales staff and representatives of each target account. Qualifies design activity at the customer engineering level.
Participates in the definition of new products and the identification of niche areas that present new opportunities for Marvell.
Makes new product recommendations to Design/Marketing.
To Apply Visit Marvell Semiconductor
Qualifications:
Previous firmware coding background with 5+ years of development in HDD/SSD drive products with experience in the Host Interface PHY/Protocol area.
Extensive knowledge of communication protocols for physical layer devices, SATA, SAS, PCIe, USB and FC interfaces preferred.
Detailed understanding of PHY Block with coding experience in PHY initialization and parameter setup.
Able to debug issues on the bench or customer site for host/drive compatibility issues with protocol analyzers, logic analyzers and digital/analog oscilloscopes.
Previous firmware product development and FAE troubleshooting support preferred.
Excellent Firmware programming skills in C and Assembly. Knowledge with ARM tools a strong plus.
Ability to make technical presentations, application notes quickly get knowledgeable with company products.
Need to have a technical knowledge of flash or disk drive products. Knowledge of SSD Controllers w SLC and MLC NAND flash management knowledge a strong plus.
Uses professional concepts and company’s policies procedures to solve a wide range of difficult problems in imaginative and practical ways. Work on problems of diverse scope. Exercise judgment with generally defined practices and policies.
MSEE/MSCS preferred.
Founded in 1995, Marvell Technology Group Ltd. has operations worldwide and approximately 5,000 employees. Marvell's U.S. operating subsidiary is based in Santa Clara, California and Marvell has international design centers located in the U.S., Europe, Israel, Singapore and China. A leading fabless semiconductor company, Marvell ships over one billion chips a year.