Senior Staff Field Applications Engineer

MaxLinear, Inc; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 123,000 - 192,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading semiconductor company in California seeks a technical engineer to work with sales and engineering teams. Responsibilities include engaging with customers, promoting products, and supporting product development through hands-on experience. Candidates should have a strong background in RF and digital communications, with a degree in Electrical Engineering or related fields.

Benefits

Health care benefits

401k savings plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Paid time off

Annual discretionary bonus eligibility

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge in RF, Mixed Signal, and Digital Communications.
• Ability to communicate effectively and solve technical challenges.
• Hands-on experience with schematic design and debugging.

Responsibilities

• Engage with customer engineers to provide technical support and promote products.
• Gather market information and track customer program revisions.
• Support product development and documentation.

Skills

RF knowledge

Mixed Signal

Digital Communications

Problem solving

Technical communication

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering

MS

Ph.D.

Tools

Schematic and layout design tools

Job description

Responsibilities

• Work with MaxLinear Sales, Marketing, and Systems Engineering teams to secure design wins at key customers and strengthen relationships between customer engineers and MaxLinear
• Work directly with key customer engineers to:
  • Promote MaxLinear’s products and technology advantages
  • Qualify the technical feasibility of new programs
  • Communicate, review, and clarify product specifications and application circuit requirements
  • Review component selection, schematics, and layout files to ensure customer first pass success and quick time to market
  • Demonstrate evaluation kits (hardware and GUIs)
  • Bring up, debug, and test customer boards and track support issues with MaxLinear Systems Engineering
• Provide field trial support
• Gather information from customers and the market to support Sales and Marketing:
• Assess customer technical capabilities and program resourcing to determine likelihood of success
• Assess resources required from MaxLinear to ensure customer program success
• Gather information about competitor products, schedules, capabilities, features, and support
• Gather information about new product features to help define new products and roadmaps
• Track customer program revisions and schedules
• Support MaxLinear product development:
  • Design and layout reference-design boards
  • Make recommendations on GUI software
  • Test hardware and software releases in advance of shipment to customers
  • Write documentation to support reference designs and development kits
  • Write customer support documents (application notes, datasheets, and FAQs)
  • Work with customers and the internal Quality team to ID, debug, and troubleshoot product quality issues

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of RF, Mixed Signal, and Digital Communications concepts
• Ability to manage and resolve technical and business challenges with customers
• Strong skills in problem solving and analysis
• Able to communicate effectively verbally and in writing
• Ability to work well and learn quickly under pressure in a fast-paced environment
• Preferred qualification (not required)
  • 5G O-RAN / Small Cell experience
  • Optical networking, SFU, gateway WiFi experience
  • Data Compression, storage acceleration, security experience
  • Ethernet experience- PHYs, Switches, POE
  • Working understanding of power, interface transceivers, basic analog
  • Hands-on experience in schematic and layout design, IC debug
  • Programming languages such as C, C++, C#, .NET
• BS in Electrical Engineering or related +7 years of experience, or MS +5 years of experience, or Ph.D. +2 years of experience

Compensation and Benefits

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

MaxLinear expects to offer a starting base salary within the range of: $123,300to $191,475Annually

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.

Company Overview

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; Vancouver, Canada; Valencia, Spain; Bangalore and Chennai, 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.