Applications Engineering Manager – Hardware & Optical Products

MaxLinear is seeking a motivated, energetic individual with experience in optical hardware systems for the position of Applications Engineering Manager. The candidate will use their technical expertise, planning, interpersonal, and communication skills to lead a team that supports customer design-in activity by providing hardware technical and application support. In this role, you will focus on the following:

• Lead the Optical Hardware Systems Applications Engineers
• • Hire and mentor HW team
  • Lead technical discussions with internal team and customers
  • Prepare the annual resource plan and hardware budget plan for AOP

• Work with regional Sales and FAE teams to secure design wins and strengthen relationships with key customers and strategic partners

  • Communicate and clarify the customer's system specifications and application requirements
  • Demonstrate MaxLinear product and present technical seminars at customer sites
  • Support and track customer design, commissioning, validation and debug activities
  • Provide product and technical training to regional sales and FAE teams
  • Support customer and FAE training

• Work with internal teams

  • Reproduce customer issues and complete primary debugging
  • Assist with regression and stress testing
  • Assist with the RMA chip bench test

• Support marketing and gather information from customers and the market

  • Perform feasibility studies for new product features
  • Support the marketing team in defining new products and roadmap
  • Carry out competitive intelligence studies and analysis

• Support MaxLinear product development

  • Create reference designs for system validation and customer evaluation
  • Develop product test plans and produce test reports
  • Produce product collateral and customer support documents, including application notes, data sheets, and user guides
  • Perform field testing and analysis for new products
  • Work with engineering teams to improve product reliability, quality, and user experience

• Support MaxLinear lab team

  • Manage and support PCB vendors and assembly vendors to purchase parts and build PCBs and PCBAs
  • Manage, test, and deliver EVKs to FAEs or customers

• This position requires an Application Engineer Team Leader with 3+ years experience
• This position requires a BS/MS in EE with 6+ years in optical module with long haul or datacenter transceiver product design experience
• 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) 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
• Driver integration and ATE development experience for platform characterization/debugging is a plus
• Familiarity with laboratory instruments including spectrum analyzers, signal generators, network analyzers, digital communication analyzers (DCA), optical/electrical clock recovery (CDR), logic analyzers, network analyzers, protocol analyzers and BER testers, etc.
• Strong leadership to lead optical hardware systems application engineers
• Strong ownership to productively drive customer issues to closure. Act as the interface between the customer and internal engineering to resolve technical issues
• Write and maintain datasheets, technical application notes, and user guides. Must have the technical capability to guide customers through product usage
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
• Self-motivated with a strong sense of ownership
• Ability to work well under pressure and learn quickly in a fast paced environment
• Able to deal with both technical and business challenges
• This will require up to 30% travel to support partners and customers on site

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.