Principal Field Application Engineer, Optics

MaxLinear

Responsibilities

MaxLinear is seeking a Principal Field Applications Engineer (FAE) focused on Optics to join our growing team. In this role, you will focus on the following:

  • Collaborate with Sales and Marketing to identify opportunities, evaluate the feasibility of customer requests in the territory, and refine priorities to align with business goals continually
  • Engage with customers to enhance their specifications based on product knowledge and understanding
  • Manage customer programs through design cycles, including prototype, EVT, PVT, pre-production, and mass production
  • Review customer board designs, offering support from internal teams during the evaluation process
  • Conduct live demonstrations of evaluation platforms in front of customers
  • Provide support during field trials
  • Perform extensive laboratory testing and characterization of reference platforms, facilitating the transfer of designs to external customers for evaluation and production
  • Develop documentation to support reference designs, evaluation kits, and product datasheets
  • Gather information on new product features to contribute to defining the product roadmap
  • Present the roadmap and technical specifications to both internal and external customers
  • Drive collaboration across engineering functions to support customer needs
  • Regularly update management on the business outlook, correlating it with design stages and ongoing activities
  • Deliver technical product training to other Field Application Engineers (FAEs) on MaxLinear products
  • Help sales management in understanding and prioritizing requests from various regions, providing support to FAEs from other regions as needed

Qualifications

  • Experience in high speed digital and optical design and signal integrity problem solving
  • Experience with RF, Mixed Signal, Digital and Analog Field specific software with CAD, Unix, and C++
  • Knowledge of and ability to use all of the following tools: spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes and signal analyzers
  • Experience working with hyperscale data center customers and the ecosystem surrounding them
  • Hands-on experience in schematic, layout, and IC debug
  • Knowledge of RF design, PA and LNA matching, and RF network analysis
  • Experience in high speed digital and optical design and signal integrity problem solving
  • Working knowledge of digital interfaces with all of the following: 0, usb3.0 and SerDes
  • Knowledge of semiconductor business practices including design-in process
  • Experience in testing and designing high-speed pluggable 100G+ transceivers
  • Experience with ethernet testing platforms from Ixia, Keysight, and Exfo
  • Experience analyzing data in Excel
  • BS in Electrical Engineering or related + 9 years of experience, or MS + 7 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: $134,300 to $208,495 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), paid time off, and a hybrid work schedule.

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; Waltham, Massachusetts; Vancouver, Canada; Valencia, Spain; Bangalore and Chennai, India; Villach, Austria; Munich, Germany; Israel; and Singapore.

We have approximately 1,500 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.

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