Staff Engineer, Hardware Application Engineering — Lab Operations
$111,070–$166,400 year
On-site · Santa Clara, California, United States
Job Summary
Senior Staff Engineer for Lab Operations responsible for the Santa Clara hardware lab—owning lab infrastructure, equipment lifecycle, vendor relationships, inventory, RMA readiness, budget execution, and global remote-lab enablement. Manages logistics for customer demos and industry tradeshows, collaborates with facilities and security teams, and ensures a best-in-class, reliable lab experience for Marvell’s Customer Solutions Group across platforms. Requires extensive hands-on experience with high-speed test equipment, SerDes concepts, and cross-site coordination.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
- 7+ years of hands-on hardware lab and validation engineering experience
- Demonstrated track record of running or owning a hardware lab — equipment lifecycle, setups, calibration, maintenance, inventory, and safety
- Working familiarity with high-speed test and measurement equipment such as oscilloscopes, BERTs, VNAs, TDR, jitter analyzers, logic analyzers, power supplies, electronic loads, and compliance test kits
- General understanding of high-speed networking and SerDes test concepts (eye-opening, BER, jitter, return loss, PDN behavior, thermal validation)
- Proven vendor management experience: sourcing, quoting, negotiating, and managing service and RMA cycles with major test equipment vendors
- Experience executing against operational budgets and reporting against plan
- Strong organizational skills — able to keep a complex, multi-platform lab in disciplined order under continuous project pressure
- Experience supporting customer demos, tradeshows, or executive engagements — owning logistics end-to-end
- Experience working with facilities and security teams on lab infrastructure, build-outs, and access controls
- Excellent communication and coordination skills, with the ability to work across engineering teams, vendors, and global Marvell sites
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