ID

2026-2964

Job Locations

TWN-Hsinchu City

Category

DCC

Type

Full Time

MaxLinear is seeking a motivated, energetic individual with experience in high-speed data center connectivity for the position of AE (Applications Engineering) Director. The candidate will use their technical expertise, planning, interpersonal and communication skills to:

• Provide management leadership to a team of Application Engineers providing design-in and support to Asia-Pacific and global customers for all of the DCC BUs products. Help team prioritize tasks, interface with customers and internal teams, manage budget and annual resource plans
• Work with regional Sales and FAE teams to secure design wins and strengthen relationships with key customers and strategic partners. Tasks include clarifying the customer's desired system specifications and application requirements, providing direct software integration/debug support to the tier-1 customers and strategic partners, providing training to sales staff, and showcasing MxL products to customers
• Interface between customer and internal teams to reproduce customer issues and perform first level debugging. Reflect the voice of the customer on technical issues. Support internal development including minor FW modification, API driver and diagnostic tools
• Gather information from customers and the market to support marketing including use case studies, new product roadmap, and competitive intelligence studies and analysis
• Support MaxLinear DCC product development to create reference designs for system validation and customer evaluation. Produce product collateral and customer support documents, including application notes, data sheets, and user guides. Work with engineering teams to improve product reliability, quality, and user experience
• Collaborate with internal teams and customers and 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)

Technical Skills Requirement:

• This position requires an AE director with team management experience of at least 10 years
• This position requires a Bachelor's, Master's or PhD in Electrical Engineering (EE) or Computer Engineering (CE), as well as at least 10 years' experience in designing optical modules for long-haul and data center transceivers
• Five years' experience in the development of optical transceiver products in C/C++ would be better
• 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
• Extensive knowledge of optical transceiver products at system and application levels. Knowledge of MSA/CMIS is advantageous
• Strong software design and debugging skills are essential, and experience in basic software programming, including driver integration and writing ATEs for reference design testing, is highly desirable
• The ability to write ATE SW (Python-based) for reference design testing is highly desirable
• 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
• 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

• Customer support experience is a must
• Strong leadership is required to oversee the work of application engineers specializing in optical hardware, software and validation systems
• 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 in terms of strong 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
• Good English communication skills
• 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
• The primary duties will be performed at the Company’s offices

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.

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