Systems Applications Engineer Group Leader (Hardware, Optical Products)

MaxLinear is seeking a motivated, energetic individual with experience in optical hardware systems for the position of Applications Engineer Group Leader. The candidate will use their technical expertise, planning, interpersonal and communication skills to:

1. Leading the Optical Hardware Systems Applications Engineers;

• Prioritise Applications Engineer support customers and tasks.

• Lead technical discussions with internal team and customers.

• Prepare the annual resource plan.

• Generate the annual AOP (Annual Operating Plan) and budget plan.

• Host the global optical exhibitions plan (OFC, ECOC, CIOE.….)

2. Work with regional Sales and FAE teams to secure design wins and strengthen relationships with key customers and strategic partners:

• Communicate and clarify the customer's desired system specifications and application requirements.

• Demonstrate MaxLinear product evaluations and present technical seminars at customer sites.

• Support and track customer design, commissioning, validation and debug activities.

• Provide product and technical training to regional sales and FAE teams.

3. Generate and host the training plan:

• Generate and host the internal FAE and AE remote and hands-on training schedule.

• Generate the customer training schedule.

• Support customer training.

4. Work with internal teams:

• Reproduce customer report issues and complete primary debugging.

• Clarify customer report issues in detail and provide correct information to the internal team.

• Assist with regression and stress testing.

• Assist with the RMA chip bench test.

5. Gather information from customers and the market to support marketing:

• Perform feasibility studies for new product features

• Support the marketing team in defining new products and roadmap

• Carry out competitive intelligence studies and analysis.

6. Support MaxLinear product development:

• Create reference designs for system validation and customer evaluation.

• Develop product test plans and produce test reports.

• Produce product collateral and customer support documents, including application notes, data sheets, and user guides.

• Perform field testing and analysis for new products.

• Work with engineering teams to improve product reliability, quality, and user experience.

7. Support MaxLinear lab team:

• Manage and support PCB vendors and assembly vendors to purchase parts and build PCBs and PCBAs.

• Manage, test, and deliver EVKs to FAEs or customers.

Technical Skills Requirement:

• This position requires an Application Engineer Team Leader with 3+ years experience.

• This position requires a BS/MS in EE with 6+ years in optical module with long haul and datacenter transceiver product design experience.

• Broad knowledge of analog circuit and system hardware integration, firmware and software in application layer issues; experience in RF/SI simulation tool (ADS or HFSS) is a plus.

• Experience in 400G/800G/1.6T transceiver design using DML, EML, Sipho driver/TIA/CDR/DSP/PAM4; including circuit design, HW/SW debug and application support is preferred.

• Experience in high speed digital and RF/microwave PCB design

• Driver integration and ATE development experience for platform characterization/debugging is a plus

• Familiar with laboratory instruments including spectrum analysers, signal generators, network analysers, digital communication analysers (DCA), optical/electrical clock recovery (CDR), logic analysers, spectrum analysers, network analysers, protocol analysers and BER testers, etc..

Job Requirement:
• Strong leadership to lead optical hardware systems application engineers.

• Strong ownership to productively drive customer issues to closure. Act as the interface between the customer and internal engineering to resolve technical issues

• Write and maintain datasheets, 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

• Self-motivated with a strong sense of ownership

• Ability to work well under pressure and learn quickly in a fast paced environment

• Able to deal with both technical and business challenges

• This will require up to 30% travel to support partners and customers on site.

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; Waltham, Massachusetts; Vancouver, Canada; Valencia, Spain; Bangalore and Chennai, 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.