Senior Director Analog & Mixed Signal - Engineering

Responsibilities

MaxLinear is seeking a Senior Director, Analog & Mixed Signal (AMS) Engineering to lead and scale the AMS engineering organization in Bangalore. This role provides strategic and functional leadership across analog and digital design, systems engineering, layout, validation, and product execution, while also overseeing the Taiwan Applications Engineering team. The position requires a seasoned leader who can drive technical excellence, organizational growth, and end-to-end product delivery through a combination of internal engineering teams and external development partners.

• Lead multidisciplinary engineering teams across Analog, Digital, Layout, Systems Engineering, and Validation functions
• Provide functional leadership for the Taiwan Applications Engineering team and ensure alignment with product, marketing, field, and customer requirements
• Own the complete product development lifecycle, from architecture and design through validation, qualification, production release, and sustaining support
• Drive integration of analog, mixed-signal, and digital technologies, including embedded control, calibration, interfaces, telemetry, and firmware interactions
• Establish strong systems engineering practices to translate market and customer requirements into product specifications, architecture decisions, and verification plans
• Develop and execute resource strategies leveraging both internal teams and external partners, including design houses, contractors, and IP providers
• Ensure high design quality, predictable execution, first-silicon success, and robust validation coverage
• Build, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering teams while developing future technical and organizational leaders
• Partner closely with Product Management, Marketing, Applications, Test, Operations, Quality, and Supply Chain teams to drive successful product execution
• Serve as the senior escalation point for critical technical, product, customer, and resource-related issues
• Drive continuous improvement in design methodologies, automation, verification frameworks, and engineering productivity to deliver measurable business results

Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience managing large semiconductor engineering organizations across analog, mixed-signal, digital, systems, layout, verification, and validation disciplines
• Strong technical expertise in analog and mixed-signal IC development, complemented by digital design and SoC integration knowledge
• Demonstrated success leading system architecture, requirements definition, trade-off analysis, and product-level performance optimization
• Experience managing global engineering teams, external design partners, contractors, and IP suppliers
• Proven track record of delivering semiconductor products from concept through high-volume production, including first-silicon bring-up and customer ramp
• Strong leadership, talent development, succession planning, and organizational management capabilities
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and executive communication skills
• Customer-focused approach with experience resolving critical technical issues and translating customer needs into product roadmaps

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in interface connectivity, serial transceivers, bridges, isolators, clocking, data converters, telemetry, or related mixed-signal technologies
• Knowledge of power management products, including PMICs, regulators, controllers, protection devices, and power modules
• Experience serving data center, networking, industrial, and broad-market applications
• Familiarity with digital verification, embedded control systems, firmware-aware development, silicon debug, and design-for-test methodologies
• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred
• 15+ years of semiconductor industry experience, including significant senior engineering leadership responsibility

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.