Technical Director, ASIC Architecture

MaxLinear is seeking a Technical Director for the Digital ASIC Architecture team. Digital ASIC team provides innovative ASIC solutions for the challenges in wired and wireless communications, storage, networking domains. As an architect you would understand Marketing Requirements and translate them to detailed Systems Requirements, Test Plans and Programming Models for one or more subsystems in the chip. This role requires a holistic view of the system, accounting for various customer use cases and crafting versatile, modular, scalable solutions that meet current and future use cases. The solutions shall ensure compliance with the applicable standards. The solutions shall account for the capabilities and limitations of the applicable technologies. You would guide the ASIC team from Architecture stage all the way till production. You would provide guidance by providing system level view, clarifying requirements, reviewing architecture, design documents, test plans, test results etc. You would be monitoring all aspects of the subsystem you own and be the primary person to sign off. You would work with Marketing, Architecture and all product development teams throughout the chip development process to ensure the chip meets all the requirements. You would also work with the customer teams understanding their requirements, issues and drive solutions to address them.

As the chips target communication market, they include RF circuits, DSP systems, Packet processing and/or multi-CPU SOC environments. A deep understanding, expertise and proven industry experience in one or more of these domains is required for the role.

An ideal person will be a curious and seasoned engineer, with unsatiated thirst for knowledge and technology and a problem solver with a “never give up” attitude. The person should work with cross domain teams and leverage the differences in skill sets. Engineering is about teamwork, collective brainstorming and precise unambiguous communication. An ideal person shall aspire to achieve these goals.

In this role, you will focus on the following:

• Architect effective, versatile chips or subsystems in a chip as per business requirements
• Define/contribute to road map of chips
• Develop Systems Requirements Document, Test Plans, Programming Models based on Marketing Requirements Document for a chip
• Drive definition of architectural solutions at chip, subsystem level from requirement documents
• Present merits of different options on how they deliver on functional, performance and chip PPA goals and drive convergence on optimal choices
• Define efficient ways to implement and realize the design
• Guide Engineering teams during different phases of product development
• Drive reviews of Engineering deliverables as per Maxlinear process. Be the primary person to sign off on the applicable deliverables
• Interface with cross functional teams including Marketing, DSP, RFIC, SW, DFT, PD, Ops, CAD, Program Management teams
• Manage design support on technical questions related to delivered chips to the customer support team
• Drive innovation in technology, methodology and development processes

• Strong fundamentals and proven expertise in digital logic design, CMOS technology and ASIC design methodology
• Strong fundamentals in programming, CPU architecture and SOC systems
• Specialization in Digital Signal Processing, Communication systems, or Networking systems
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Passion for learning and engineering innovative and efficient solutions
• 18+ years of experience in Digital ASIC implementation at chip level including
  • Architecture, Micro-architecture, Development Planning
  • System level knowledge and experience not only chip design but also boards and systems where they get used
  • Ability to estimate chip PPA aspects, anticipate architecture, implementation risks
  • RTL design skills using Verilog, System Verilog or VHDL
  • Subsystem and Chip level verification, validation and interop planning
  • Strong knowledge of ASIC implementation flows, challenges and foresight
• Proven written and verbal communication skills that demonstrate clarity of thought and conviction
• Working knowledge of one or more scripting languages and ability to use them to automate/accelerate design and analysis tasks
• BE/M.Tech in EE/ECE

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 1,200 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.