Principal Applications Engineer - Analog & Mixed-Signal

Responsibilities

MaxLinear is seeking Principal Application Engineering to join our Analog Mixed Signal (AMS) group. The AMS team develops a broad portfolio of integrated solutions spanning high speed and embedded connectivity interfaces (bridges, serial transceivers, isolators) and power management, supporting data center, industrial, and embedded platforms. In this role, you will focus on the following:

• Drive end-to-end systems definition across silicon architecture, firmware, software drivers, and hardware integration, working closely with design, applications, product management, and customers to deliver differentiated, production ready solutions
• Engage directly with customers to capture system level requirements and support complex technical discussions and escalations
• Characterize interface products, including USB based connectivity, PCIe based interfaces, and serial and control protocols (UART, I²C, SPI, GPIO, and related interfaces)
• Partner with Product Management on product definition, feasibility, roadmap planning, competitive and system level differentiation
• Guide products through silicon bring-up, characterization, qualification, and production
• Drive cross functional alignment across analog, digital, firmware, software, package, test, and system teams
• Participate in system requirements, architecture documents, and design reviews
• Mentor engineers and act as a technical authority within the connectivity domain

Qualifications

• Self-motivated and capable of handling both technical and business challenges.
• Experience with USB-UART, USB-Ethernet, USB HS/FS, and PCIe products as well as serial and peripheral interfaces (UART, I²C, SPI, GPIO, and Digital Isolators).
• Experience with USB hardware, PCIe, and SW drivers
• Ability to lead technically across multiple disciplines and global teams
• Track record of delivering products from architecture definition through high volume production
• BS in Electrical Engineering or related + 8~9 years of experience
• Excellent problem-solving abilities in fast-paced environments.
• Willingness to travel (~10%).

Lab Equipment Experience

• Oscilloscopes
• Spectrum analyzers
• Signal generators
• Network analyzers
• Logic analyzers
• Protocol analyzers
• BER testers

Preferred Skills

• USB 2.0 and USB 3.0
• PCIe 
• UART interfaces and Serial interfaces.
• Digital Isolators
• GUI development and Automation testing and scripting (Python)
• Ethernet

Company Overview

MaxLinear is a global, NASDAQ-traded company (MXL) where the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well. We are a fabless system-on-chip product company, striving to improve the world’s communication networks for everyone through our highly integrated radio-frequency (RF), analog, digital, and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions for access and connectivity, wired and wireless infrastructure, and industrial and multi-market applications.

We hire the best people in the industry and engage them in some of the most exciting opportunities that connect the world we live in today. Our growth has come from innovative, bold approaches to solving some of the world’s most challenging communication technology problems in the most efficient and effective manner.

MaxLinear began by developing the world’s first high-performance TV tuner chip using standard CMOS process technology. Others said we couldn’t achieve the extremely high-performance requirements using CMOS, but we proved them wrong and achieved enduring global market leadership with our designs. Since then, we’ve developed a full line of products that drive 4G and 5G infrastructure; enable data center, metro and long-haul optical interconnects; bring 10Gbit to the home; power the IoT revolution; and enable robust and reliable communication in harsh industrial environments. Over the years, we’ve expanded through organic growth and through several acquisitions that have perfectly complemented our existing portfolio and enabled us to deliver complete end-to-end solutions in our target markets. One such example was the acquisition of Intel’s Home Gateway Platform Division that added Wi-Fi, Ethernet, and Broadband Gateway Processor SoC technology to our connected home portfolio creating a complete and scalable platform of connectivity and access solutions to fully address our customers’ needs.

Our headquarters are in Carlsbad, near San Diego, California. We also have major design centers in Irvine and San Jose, California; Valencia, Spain; Bangalore, India; Munich, Germany; Israel; and Singapore.

We have approximately 1,200 employees, a substantial majority of whom have engineering degrees and include masters and Ph.D. graduates from many of the premiere universities around the world. Our employees thrive on innovation, outstanding execution, outside-the-box thinking, nimbleness, and collaboration. Together, we form a high-energy business team that is focused on building the best and most innovative products on the market.