DSP Architecture junior (Masters Degree), 73 Marvell Technology Italy S.r.l., IT

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

Marvell’s high-speed PAM4 DSPs are the industry leader in building a PAM4 ecosystem and developing low-power, high-performance solutions for cloud data center infrastructure, service providers, AI networks, enterprises, and 5G.

What You Can Expect

• Understand the requirements of serial links as specified by IEEE and other sources (OIF, MSA, customer requirements).
• Familiarize yourself with various modeling approaches for system design and simulation.
• Work on link budgeting, non-ideality modeling, and system simulation.
• Analyze DSP challenges and opportunities, explore and compare different optimization directions, and generate trade-off curves for performance and cost (complexity/power/area/design time).
• Get introduced to state-of-the-art PHY design.
• Work on high-efficiency DSP design.
• Learn how to model, simulate, and analyze complex systems involving multi-domain aspects (e.g., physical link/analog circuits/digital circuits/software).
• Become an expert in MATLAB and other simulation environments (such as custom C++ simulators).
• Be part of the architecture team.
• Receive supervision throughout all phases of your work from a reference person to facilitate a fast learning experience.
• Participate in meetings, discussions, and brainstorming sessions.
• Collaborate with other teams, including analog and digital designers, to enrich and expand your knowledge.
• Gain exposure to an international environment by interacting with teams from multiple locations worldwide.

Please note, this is a fixed-term agreement.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or related fields.
• Final-year master’s student or recent graduate (within the last 12 months) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronics, Mathematics, Physics, or a similar technical field enrolled at an accredited Italian university.
• Knowledge of Digital Signal Processing.
• Knowledge of Communication Theory.
• Basic knowledge of digital design.
• Basic knowledge of analog design is considered a plus.
• Basic knowledge of CPP and MATLAB is considered a plus.

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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
 

As part of our commitment to fair and authentic hiring practices, we ask that candidates do not use AI tools (e.g., transcription apps, real-time answer generators like ChatGPT, CoPilot, or note-taking bots) during interviews.
 
Our interviews are designed to assess your personal experience, thought process, and communication skills in real-time. If a candidate uses such tools during an interview, they will be disqualified 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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