Senior Staff Test Engineer

About Marvell

Marvell’s semiconductor solutions are the essential building blocks of the data infrastructure that connects our world. Across enterprise, cloud and AI, 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

As a test development senior staff engineer in the Operations business group, you will test features on the silicon semiconductor chips Marvell produces for internal and external customers. You will make sure we don’t ship out any underperforming units. You’ll work closely with design to make sure their chip features are testable and that the results meet the customer’s specifications. You may even have to write new code or develop new testing strategies when our chips outpace the capabilities of current testing equipment.

What You Can Expect

• Develop wafer sort test programs for production or characterization on the ATE or bench
test platform.
• Involved in the testability review with DFT/DFM teams to define and enhance yield and
test methodologies.
• Play a lead role in test flow optimization, test time reduction, insertion removals, yield
improvement, and release of production test programs with product engineers and
interpersonal skills.
• Set SYL/SBL on new products using product yield history to ensure product quality.
• Make disposition for production lots and work with NPI Product Engineering to drive yield
improvement and test time reduction.
• During NPI process, work with Product & Test Engineers to stabilize and improve product
screening at wafer-probe and package levels.
• Qualify and manage OSATs for capacity and competitive cost.
• Manage OSAT ATE HW inventory and maintain released test programs at OSAT.
• Support Supply Chain to meet customer delivery.
• Review and monitor Test/WAT data to proactively resolve yield issues.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or related fields and 10 years of related professional experience.
• Master’s degree in electrical engineering or related fields with 5 years of experience.
• 5+ years of experience with RF/Mixed-Sign IC test
• Experience of sustaining high-speed RF products that have moved into volume production
• Wafer sort analysis experience for analog devices up to 65GHz
• Demonstrable experience in ATE testing (critical skill), test methodology.
• Demonstrable with C / C++ /Python/Perl is desired.
• Familiar with test bench equipment, including, but not limited to, Network Analyzers, Sampling Oscilloscopes and Power Meters, is desired.
• Must have effective interpersonal, teamwork, and communication skills.
• Excellent problem solving, teamwork, collaboration and interpersonal skills.
• Has an inherent sense of urgency and accountability.
• Ability to clearly and concisely summarize engineering findings to a management audience.
• Self-motivated and action oriented.
• fluent in English (read/write/listen/speak)

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.

Interview Integrity 

To support fair and authentic hiring practices, candidates are not permitted to use AI tools (such as transcription apps, real-time answer generators like ChatGPT or Copilot, or automated note-taking bots) during interviews.

These tools must not be used to record, assist with, or enhance responses in any way. Our interviews are designed to evaluate your individual experience, thought process, and communication skills in real time. Use of AI tools without prior instruction from the interviewer will result in disqualification from the hiring process.

This position may require access to technology and/or software subject to U.S. export control laws and regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). As such, applicants must be eligible to access export-controlled information as defined under applicable law. Marvell may be required to obtain export licensing approval from the U.S. Department of Commerce and/or the U.S. Department of State. Except for U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, or protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), all applicants may be subject to an export license review process prior to employment.

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