Description:
Marvell is seeking a talented System Validation Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team, supporting board, switch, and optics development for next-generation platform solutions. This role drives execution across highly complex, cross-functional programs addressing some of the most demanding challenges in AI, wired and wireless communications, and critical infrastructure markets.
This role is responsible for developing and executing system and rack-level validation plans across electrical, thermal, functional, and performance domains, ensuring board, switch, and optics components perform reliably as integrated platform solutions. You will partner closely with hardware design, signal/power integrity, firmware, and systems engineering teams to translate platform requirements into robust validation methodologies and test coverage.
You will operate in a highly visible technical environment, providing validation expertise, bring-up support, and lab-based characterization while engaging with cross-functional engineering teams and customers to ensure platform designs meet performance, quality, and schedule objectives.
What You Can Expect
- Lead system and rack-level validation planning for platform solutions spanning board, switch, and optics
- Define validation requirements and test methodologies, translating platform architecture and customer needs into comprehensive test coverage
- Drive execution of electrical, thermal, functional, and performance validation across switch systems, boards, and rack-scale infrastructure
- Own validation tradeoff decisions across hardware, software, mechanical, thermal, and operational domains
- Collaborate with hardware design, signal/power integrity, firmware, and systems engineering teams to ensure validation coverage aligns with system-level design intent
- Develop and execute comprehensive board, system, and rack-level validation plans and test procedures
- Partner with ODMs, contract manufacturers, and suppliers to ensure validation processes meet manufacturability and production readiness requirements
- Support hyperscale, cloud, and enterprise customer engagements with validation data, design reviews, and technical escalations
- Develop and maintain validation documentation, including test plans, characterization reports, and pass/fail criteria
- Proactively identify validation and integration risks across the platform stack, develop mitigation strategies, and escalate issues as needed to drive resolution
- Define validation scope, requirements, and risk assessments up front to guide testing and reduce security, data integrity, and operational risks
- Qualify systems through installation, operational, and performance testing (IQ/OQ/PQ) to confirm they are installed correctly, function as specified, and perform reliably under real-world conditions
- Maintain requirements traceability, audit trails, and change/deviation records throughout the system lifecycle, and produce final validation reports
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 10-15 years of related professional experience; Master's degree and/or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field with 5-10 years of experience
- Experience with microprocessor, interconnect, memory, networking, and storage architectures relevant to platform-level system validation
- Strong understanding of system and rack-level architecture, including scale-up and scale-out fabric design, interconnect, and data center power/thermal constraints
- Experience validating switch, board, and optics components integrated into rack-scale solutions and reference platforms
- Familiarity with high-speed interfaces including Ethernet, PCIe, and other advanced interconnect technologies
- Ability to define system validation requirements and translate platform architecture into test plans and design tradeoffs
- Experience with programming/scripting languages such as Python or C for test automation, data analysis, and validation tooling
- Hands-on experience with system-level validation methodologies, including electrical, thermal, functional, and performance characterization
- Experience collaborating with ODMs, contract manufacturers, and cross-functional engineering teams to ensure design manufacturability and integration readiness
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to work successfully across cross-functional teams