Senior/ Staff Application Engineer – Analog & Mixed-Signal Platform

MaxLinear is seeking a driven, high-energy, experienced Application Engineer to focus on AMS products. We are open to a candidate who has worked with AMS products or products with AMS features. In this role, you will use your technical expertise, interpersonal and communication skills, focusing on the following areas:

• Define and create test plan by advertising product feature and learn system specification from development team to create the plan from customer perspective
• Execute, analyze and report results of reference system test plans with zero failure policy
• Report and track defects and verify associated fixes
• Automate test cases at system level with scripting languages and lab instrumentation APIs
• Develop new tools and scripts to improve daily validation tasks and test plan
• Review schematics and layouts to clarify differences among evaluation, create reference design and customer designs
• Able to perform HW modification on PCBA deliverables
• Analysis and debugging of technical issues on AMS platform level

• Hands-on lab experience in measurement, testing, and debugging on Analog Mixed signal application
• Experience and proven track record to define, develop and execute test automation with modern script language
• Experience with several of the following technologies and product domains: digital isolators, serial communication interfaces (RS-232/RS-485), USB-UART, PCIe-UART bridge devices and related industry standards. Experience with power management products is a plus
• Familiarity with
• Windows and Linux operation experience is helpful
• Python (preferred), TCL programming and C language
• Lab instruments include oscilloscope, logic analyzer, protocol analyzer, traffic analyzer and BER tester, etc
• Self-motivated with great sense of responsibility, managing both technical and business challenges
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work well and learn quickly under pressure in a fast-paced environment
• Solid English communication skills (verbal, written, listening) are mandatory
• Assertive, customer focus, persistent, and ambitious to achieve targets
• BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering with +5 years of experience

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.