Staff Hardware Design Applications Engineer

We are seeking a skilled Staff Hardware Design Applications Engineer to develop and support PCB platforms for Wireless Backhaul (WBH) systems. This role focuses on designing development boards and reference platforms to enable system validation, performance evaluation, and productization of high‑performance wireless technologies. The main responsabilities will be:

• Lead the integration of network processors into WBH hardware platforms, including interface definition, performance optimization, and system-level validation
• Design and develop PCB platforms, development boards, and reference designs for Wireless Backhaul systems
• Support system-level testing, bring-up, and evaluation of WBH hardware platforms
• Translate system and RF requirements into robust schematic and PCB layouts, including high-speed digital, RF, and power circuits
• Collaborate closely with RF, systems, FW, DV, and manufacturing teams to ensure design alignment and issue resolution
• Perform design reviews, schematic/layout checks, and ensure compliance with design and manufacturing guidelines
• Debug and resolve hardware issues, including signal integrity, power integrity, and soldering or assembly-related problems
• Support prototype builds, bring-up, and validation in lab environments
• Prepare and maintain design documentation, BOMs, and manufacturing files
• Provide AE support for engineers integrating WBH chips into final products

• Experience with Wireless Backhaul technologies (microwave, mmWave, or fixed wireless systems)
• Exposure to EMI/EMC, signal integrity (SI), and power integrity (PI) analysis
• Experience supporting designs from concept through production
• Strong experience in PCB schematic capture and layout tools (e.g., Orcad, Allegro, or similar)
• Familiarity with Design Verification (DV) tools and hardware validation methodologies
• Solid understanding of high-speed interfaces, power delivery, and mixed-signal/RF design principles
• Experience working with multi-layer PCBs and complex hardware platforms
• Knowledge of manufacturing, assembly, and soldering processes
• Ability to debug hardware using lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, and logic analyzers
• Bachelor's Degree in Telecommunications Engineering, Electrical or related plus +3 years of experience.

• Competitive Salary Package
• Stock-based compensation
• Private Medical Insurance 
• Life Insurance

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.