Senior Staff Systems Applications Hardware Engineer - Optical Products

Responsibilities

MaxLinear is looking for energetic and motivated engineers with experience in system applications engineering. In this role, you will use your technical knowledge and communication skills to support both customers and internal teams. You will focus on:

• Work with Sales and FAE teams:
  • Secure design wins and strengthen relationships with key customers and strategic partners
  • Communicate and clarify customer-required system specifications and application requirements
  • Demonstrate MaxLinear product evaluations and present technical seminars at customer sites and trade show events
  • Support and track customer design, bring-up, validation, and debug activities
  • Provide product and technical training for regional Sales and FAE teams
• Work with internal teams:
  • Reproduce customer-reported issues and complete primary debugging
  • Clarify customer-reported issue details and provide accurate information to internal teams
  • Support regression and stress testing

• Gather information from customers and the market to support marketing:
  • Perform feasibility studies on new product features
  • Support the Marketing team in defining new products and product roadmaps
  • Conduct competitive intelligence studies and analyses

• Support MaxLinear product development:
  • Build reference designs for system validation and customer evaluation
  • Develop product test plans and generate test reports
  • Generate product collateral and customer support documents, including application notes, datasheets, and user guides
  • Work with the Engineering teams to improve product reliability, quality, and user experience
  • Conduct field testing and analysis for new products

• Support MaxLinear lab team:
  • Manage and support PCB and assembly vendors for purchasing parts and building PCBs and PCBAs
  • Manage, test, and deliver EVKs to FAEs or customers

Qualifications

• BS/MS in EE with 3+ years of experience in optical modules and long-haul/data center transceiver product design
• Broad knowledge of analog circuits, system hardware integration, firmware, and application-layer software issues; experience with RF/SI simulation tools (ADS or HFSS) is a plus
• Experienced in 400G/800G/1.6 transceiver design with DML, EML, Sipho Driver/TIA/CDR/DSP/PAM4; including circuit design, HW/SW debug, and application support is preferred
• Experienced in high-speed digital and RF/Microwave PCB design
• Driver integration and ATE development for platform characterization/debug experience is a plus
• Familiar with lab instruments including spectrum analyzer, signal generator, network analyzer, Digital Communication Analyzer (DCA), Optical DCA Sampling Oscilloscopes, Optical/Electrical Clock Recovery (CDR), logic analyzer, spectrum analyzer, network analyzers, protocol analyzer, and BER tester, etc
• Strong ownership of productively drive customer issues to closure. Act as the interface between the customer and internal engineering to resolve technical issues
• Write and maintain data sheets, technical application notes, and user guides
• Must have the technical capability to guide customers through product usage
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English in terms of strong communication skills with customers and various internal groups such as marketing, engineering, sales, and operations

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.