Software Engineering Director

MaxLinear is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to join our team. In this role, you will focus on the following:

• Direct software development projects of varying sizes through technical leaders
• Participate in the entire lifecycle of a product from concept through obsolescence
• Work collaboratively with international software teams to drive development efforts, effectively utilizing cross-site resources
• Work with Program Management to schedule key milestones, identification of risks, contingency plans, and allocation of project resources
• Ensure products are completed on time and according to product specifications, schedules, and quality standards
• Facilitate the definition of SW development processes for developing superior software, and constantly strives and puts processes in place to improve quality
• Hire, train, and conduct employee performance appraisals
• Motivate, discipline, and groom team, providing a constructive environment for improvement of personal traits and technical skills
• Keep team informed on the company’s direction and roadmap
• Facilitate communication upward and across engineering teams including product status, justifications for variances and technical information, acceptance and rejection of feature changes, serving as the point of contact for all software activities
• Ensure that software architecture and implementation is maintainable and extendible to accommodate future development and maintenance
• Ensure that appropriate development and corporate methods and procedures are followed

• Experience in software/firmware development preferably in the embedded product space (wireless, wire-line communication products) with knowledge of SW from OS/RTOS to applications
• Full product life cycle experience of several products
• Hands-on and proficient in C/C++/C#, assembly coding, proficient with CPU architectures, Linux OS, Windows OS, and experienced in writing efficient code
• Strong oral and written communication skills and the ability to present
• Experience working with multicultural teams
• BS in Electrical Engineering or related + 15 years of experience, or MS + 12 years of experience, or Ph.D. + 10 years of experience

• Competitive Salary Package
• Stock-based compensation
• Private Medical Insurance 
• Life Insurance

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.