Senior Staff Engineer, Firmware Development

Marvell Technology

Senior Staff Engineer developing system software for network and storage systems using Rust at Marvell. Leading firmware development and enhancing reliability and performance with cross-functional teams.

Posted 6/20/2026full-timeTokyo • 🇯🇵 JapanSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Rust

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Architect, design and develop system software for reliable, scalable, high performing network and storage systems using Rust.
Develop new features and enhance existing features for Data-plane/Fast-path software Toolkits by designing data structures and algorithms tailored for Marvell MIPS/ARM based CPU, coprocessors and hardware-based accelerators.
Develop software and troubleshoot issues related to hardware bring-up, multi-threaded software development with virtualized hardware.
Analyze and investigate methods to enhance software performance on Marvell SoC by eliminating bottle-necks using existing hardware and simulators and suggest future hardware/software design improvements.
Work with cross functional hardware/software engineers to understand and solve customer issues.
Plan, schedule, estimate efforts for projects and provide technical guidance to junior engineers during execution.
Work on ARM based storage/Networking products, design and develop firmware and software for Storage and networking products.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor or Masters in electrical engineering, computer engineering or similar
Strong software/firmware engineering background
Experience developing security and/or storage products
Minimum 12 years of relevant experience
Experience with firmware development working closely with SoC development organization
Knowledge of RUST, C, C++ and embedded firmware tools and techniques
Ability work in dynamic and fast paced work environment
Ability to technically lead the development of independent module in a large FW stack
Preferred Experience: Experience of working on cryptographic and/or security FW protocols, Experience with HSMs and other security domain (TLS, Cryptography) is a plus
Working knowledge on cryptographic algorithms (RSA, EC, AES, SHA variants), TLS/SSL protocols
Working experience in any of one of the standard API developments : PKCS11, OpenSSL Engine, Root of trust
Experience of firmware development on NVMe
Using FW Simulators for Pre-Si FW development
Affinity with Agile development
Knowledge of processor architectures, such as ARM
Experience with design and support for mass production

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation
Great benefits
Environment of shared collaboration
Transparency
Inclusivity
Tools and resources for success and growth

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Hard Skills & Tools

RustCC++firmware developmentcryptographic algorithmsTLS/SSL protocolsNVMeAPI developmentembedded firmware toolsmulti-threaded software development

Soft Skills

technical leadershipproject planningschedulingestimationproblem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationadaptabilityguidancecustomer issue resolution