Software Project Analyst

MaxLinear is seeking a Software Project Analyst who will work with Program & Project Managers to assist the team by developing and managing processes, procedures, and tools designed to increase the project’s productivity. A Project Analyst is tasked to help setup, track, monitor and report the progress of the project execution closely by working with the functional leaders. 

This Position is for Broadband Wireless Gateway Software team. We have a long track record of contributing to bringing up various SoCs and productizing it to optimize time to market for our customers. The team is working on development of cutting-edge wireless communication and broadband technologies products like multi-gigabit Wi-Fi and broadband routers, mesh networks and distributed systems providing connectivity over extremely high speeds. You will join the team working on pre- and post-silicon, developing drivers and software for the next generation of Fibre/Cable/5G, 802.11AX WLAN, IoT and smart gateways, integrating into systems and lab testing of your products developed in C/C++ and various scripting languages. In this role,

• You will be required to drive a platform software project for new SoCs including emulation platforms, pre-SoC testing, bring-up, post-bring up testing and customer engagement / software enhancement
• You will need to ramp up fast on different SoC families
• You will work closely with the software development and test engineering team members to setup the tasks for the project, get the team to update the status, show risks/delays and ensure the project executes per plan

• Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power Point, SharePoint usage
• Create weekly/monthly status reports
• Agile Software development process including Sprints and release planning & tracking
• Ability to multi-task on different projects
• Ability to create project status reports by creating charts and dashboards to convey the accurate information of the project
• Ability to initiate surveys and collect feedback from team related to project and team topics
• Good interpersonal skills to work with both junior engineers and experienced leaders
• Ability to learn new tools quickly and identify tool issues for troubleshooting
• Good English communication skills, both verbal and written
• Inclined to learn to automate activities using tools like PowerBI, Jira dashboards, Excel Macros, and charts
• Work with the team for procurement and tracking expenses as per yearly/quarterly plan
• Having worked in a SoC Embedded software project and tracking the milestones, deliverables, resource usage is a big plus
• Having worked in a cross functional role interacting with different location teams is a Plus
• Bachelor's degree (prefer engineering degree)
• 1-3 years of relevant experience in an Embedded Software team

MaxLinear is a global, New York Stock Exchange-traded company (NYSE: 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; Vancouver, Canada; Valencia, Spain; Bangalore, India; Villach, Austria; Munich, Germany; Israel; and Singapore.

We have approximately 1,500 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.