Senior Staff Test Development Engineer

The Senior Staff Test Development Engineer will have the following areas of responsibility:

• This individual will understand firmware and software requirements and derive Test Plans and Test Procedures to verify and validate firmware functionality.
• This individual will interface with Software, Chip Designers & Systems engineers to review testability & coverage
• Responsible for developing complex test infrastructure and automation frameworks using Python advanced programming skills
• Responsible for developing test cases using Python that exercise various complex requirements/specifications of wireless communication platforms
• Responsible for ensuring test cases are integrated within automated test execution engines
• Responsible for initial triage of issues found, and debugging test-specific hardware/software issues with minimal hand holding
• Responsible for developing and integrating Jenkins pipelines

• This position requires a BS/MS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
• Relevant industry experience of at least 10 years
• Source code version control systems – git
• Issue reporting & tracking systems – Jira
• Programming languages – Python scripting language, Robot Framework, C/C++ programming
• Must have used OOPS concepts and advanced python programming skills
• Unit Test frameworks, test management and automation engines
• Experience with setting up and using equipment like spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, signal generators, vector signal analyzers
• Test case development experience for complex embedded firmware platforms
• (Desirable) – Some exposure to fundamentals of rf & communication systems
• (Desirable) – Test development experience for communication systems with complex certification requirements

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, 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.