Senior Digital Design Engineer

MaxLinear is seeking a Senior Digital Design Engineer to join our Analog Mixed-Signal (AMS) organization. The AMS team develops a broad portfolio of Interface and Power Management integrated circuits serving datacenter, industrial, networking, communications, and multi-market applications. Our Power Management portfolio includes PMICs, Point-of-Load (PoL) converters, power controllers, eFuses, and digital power management solutions. Our Interface portfolio includes USB-to-UART, USB-to-Ethernet, PCIe-to-UART controllers, RS-232/RS-485 transceivers, digital isolators, power isolators, GPIO expanders, and other connectivity products.

• Develop RTL designs using Verilog/SystemVerilog for ASIC and FPGA implementations.
• Participate in architecture and microarchitecture discussions based on product requirements.
• Perform block-level design, integration, debug, and verification support activities.
• Work closely with verification, AMS, applications, firmware, and physical design teams.
• Develop and maintain design documentation, specifications, and interface definitions.
• Support LINT, CDC, synthesis, STA, and design sign-off activities.
• Participate in silicon bring-up, characterization, and root-cause analysis of product issues.
• Contribute to IP evaluation, integration, and reuse across multiple products.
• Support low-power implementation techniques such as clock gating and power optimization.
• Drive continuous improvements in design quality, productivity, and development methodologies.

• Bachelors in Electrical/Electronics Engineering or Master’s degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering
• 2 to 5 years of experience in digital ASIC/SoC design and implementation using Verilog and SystemVerilog
• Solid understanding of CMOS fundamentals, digital logic design, and ASIC methodologies
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Required experience with understanding architecture, writing block-level micro-architecture, converting to realizable RTL Design, Synthesis and Static Timing Analysis (STA)
• Experience with functional verification support, LINT and CDC Analyses preferred
• Familiarity with serial communication protocols such as I²C, SPI, UART is a plus
• Exposure to SystemVerilog/UVM-based verification environments is desirable
• Passion for learning and engineering great solutions
• Proven written and verbal communication skills that demonstrate clarity of thought and conviction

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.