Senior Staff Field Applications Engineer

MaxLinear is recruiting a Senior Field Applications Engineer based in China to drive customer design wins and grow company revenue through deep technical expertise and outstanding cross-party communication & interpersonal capabilities. In this role, you will focus on:

• Collaborate closely with MaxLinear’s Sales, Marketing, Application Engineering teams and Business Units to capture design wins at key customer accounts
• Serve as the primary technical liaison with core customer engineering teams, covering the below workstreams:
  • Promote MaxLinear product portfolio, predominantly data center PAM4 DSPs, Drivers and TIAs
  • Review product specs and application circuit design requirements; provide technical guidance for performance optimization for customers
  • Deliver lab testing and on-site technical support, conduct troubleshooting to resolve customer technical roadblocks
• Collect, organize and summarize customer technical demands to support internal industry trend research and technical strategy reviews
• Support internal product development initiatives:
  
  • Conduct pre-release validation of hardware and software builds prior to customer shipment
  • Partner with customers and internal QA, Application Engineering and R&D teams to identify, replicate and resolve product quality issues
  • Strong self-learning ability and solving field issues under tight deadlines and high-pressure scenarios

• Minimum 3 years of hands-on optical module development experience
• Capable of independently debugging software issues; proficient in SPI and I2C communication protocols
• In-depth expertise in fiber-optic communication systems is highly preferred
• Practical experience working with various network switches and NIC adapters is preferred
• Direct project experience with PAM4 DSP, CDR, TIA, Driver and PIC components
• Familiarity with Python scripting is a plus

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.