Sr. Staff Field Applications Engineer

MaxLinear is seeking an experienced Field Application Engineer (FAE) to drive new designs with customers in broadband (access and connectivity) and LTE/5G wireless infrastructure businesses. FAE team are key to MaxLinear as the first line of contact for our customers. FAEs help customers to design-in MaxLinear-based solutions to ensure successful deployment in real-world applications. FAEs as sales team members are also in charge of pre-sale to win new opportunities and manage customer projects to be on schedule. In this role, you will focus on the following:

• Engage in pre-sales activity and promote MaxLinear products along with Sales team
• Provide consultation to customers on MaxLinear products and help evangelize MaxLinear technologies; During the design-win process, you will help provide technical training to customers’ team on products
• Be the first line of contact for support on all technical issues and questions from customers or peer application engineers
• Drive MaxLinear engineering, R&D and AE teams to support Taiwan customers requests
• As applicable, clarify and reproduce customer technical issues in a local environment and work with AE team to provide correct information (solution)
• Help review customer PCB designs, and any needed debugging
• Support basic IC failure analysis and work with QA team to help customer improve yield rate
• Managing multiple customer accounts with multiple projects and distributor FAEs
• Collecting market information to work with Sales and Marketing to support selling strategy
• Possibility of travel overseas to other MaxLinear offices for field issue support and product training as needed

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, or a related field
• Minimum 10 years of experience in a Field Application Engineer or similar technical role
• Basic knowledge of broadband technologies (xPON, DOCSIS, DSL, WiFi) and LTE/5G infrastructure (RAN, ORAN)
• Basic knowledge of network protocols, RF systems, and embedded systems
• Hands-on experience with lab equipment (spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, etc.)
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Strong project management skills to manage customers’ projects
• Candidates with HW/RF experience:

1. • PCB knowledge includes schematic design, layout and BOM design. Hands-on skills of PCB including prototyping and optimization board design
   • Strong HW development including simulation, and troubleshooting capability
   • Basic EMI, ESD and surge certification support and debugging
   • Test equipment operation: Spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, signal generators, oscilloscope, i2c analyzer…etc
   • (Preferred) RF experiences for WiFi/LTE/5G products

• Candidates with SW experience:
  • Familiar with RTOS, Linux operating system environment and Arm processor system
  • C/C++/Python programing experience
  • Experience in developing SW for WiFi/LTE/5G Radio units
  • Ability to debug SW issue independently
  • Embedded SW development experience such as device drivers, BSP, etc.
  •  (Preferred) DSP programming experience and familiarity with wireless communication algorithms such as DPD, CFR, PIMC, MIMO, CTLE, FFE…
  •  (Preferred) Familiarity with WiFi, or 3GPP and ORAN standards

Other Skills:

• Language skills: Good English read, write and speak capability
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as needed

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.