Senior Director Platform and Applications Engineering, DCC

MaxLinear is seeking a Senior Director Platform and Applications Engineering focused on high-speed data center interconnects to join our team. In this role, you will focus on growing our Data Center Connectivity BU (DCC) business:

• Provide leadership to a global team of Platform and Applications Engineers providing design-in technical support to global customers for DCC BUs products
• Help team prioritize tasks, interface with customers and internal teams, manage budget, and annual resource plans
• Manage team of hardware and software engineers to create reference designs using MxL products for customer evaluation and adoption; reference designs may include Transceiver modules, opto-electronic engines, and active cables used in high-speed datacenters
• Manage Applications Engineering team that interfaces between customers and internal teams to overcome customer design-in challenges by reproducing, debugging, and solving technical issues emerging from the integration of MxL products in customer platforms
• Support internal development of FW augmentation, API driver, and diagnostic tools
• Work with regional Sales and FAEs to secure design wins and strengthen relationships with key customers and strategic partners; understand customer use cases and requirements and help craft product requirements for internal development teams
• Gather customer and market information including use case studies, new product roadmap, and competitive intelligence studies, and analysis to support marketing
• Collaborate with internal teams and customers to define validation plans for high-speed Ethernet/InfiniBand optical transceivers, active optical cables (AOCs), and active electronic cables (AECs) tested by the automated test equipment (ATE)
• Build and manage test and validation labs geared towards customer enablement

• Previous management experience building and managing large engineering teams is a must
• Broad knowledge of analog circuit and system hardware integration, firmware and software in application layer issues; experience in RF/SI simulation tool (ADS or HFSS)
• Extensive knowledge of optical transceiver products at system and application levels including optical modules and components, and optical communications systems
• Strong software and hardware design and debugging skills are desirable. Driver integration and ATE development experience for platform characterization/debugging is a plus
• Experience in 400G/800G/1.6T transceiver design using DML, EML, Sipho driver/TIA/CDR/DSP/PAM4; including circuit design, HW/SW debug and application support is preferred.
• Experience in high-speed digital and RF/microwave PCB design
• Familiar with a range of laboratory instruments, including spectrum analyzers, signal generators, network analyzers, digital communication analyzers (DCAs), optical/electrical clock recovery (CDRs), logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, protocol analyzers and bit error rate (BER) testers
• Previous experience in high speed Serdes or Analog IC development or in optical transceiver module development is a must
• Strong leadership is required to oversee the work of application and platform engineers specializing in high-speed networking hardware, software and validation systems
• Strong ownership to productively drive customer technical issues to closure, interfacing between the customer and internal engineering
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with customers and various internal groups such as marketing, engineering, sales, and operations
• Previous experience of supporting IC products in a high-volume market
• Ability to process multiple tasks, strong technical account management, and project management skills
• Ability to work well under pressure and learn quickly in a fast-paced environment
• Able to deal with both technical and business challenges
• Strong communicator with experience presenting to senior management
• Customer support experience is desirable
• BS in Electrical Engineering or related + 15 years of experience, or MS + 13 years of experience, or Ph.D. + 10 years of experience

MaxLinear has a Total Compensation philosophy which includes base salary and annual discretionary bonus eligibility and many positions also include stock-based compensation.

MaxLinear's good faith estimate starting base salary range is:  $238,000 to $294,000 Annually

We offer competitive benefits designed to support employee health, welfare, and retirement and some highlights are:  health care benefits, 401k savings plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), and paid time off.

The actual starting base salary will be determined by the match to certain role-related criteria such as educational degree(s) or equivalent, relevant work experience, skillset needed for the role, and geographic location; this is not an all-inclusive list as some roles may require unique skills or experience.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on race, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.

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.