Staff Platform Software Engineer

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MaxLinear is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Power Platforms team working closely with our hardware engineering team for validation, characterization and support of new products. In this role, you will focus on the following

• Develop internal software tools for automation testing and validation
• Build automated test scripts for product validation and performance analysis
• Execute bench tests and analysis on power products
• Work closely with platform hardware engineers to validate and characterize power products
• Operate and setup bench-top test systems for semiconductor testing
• Develop GUIs and external software tools for use by our customers
• Programming techniques and concepts in Python
• Scripting concepts for automation testing
• Familiar with I2C, GPIO, PMBUS, SPI protocols
• Basic understanding of hardware and power concepts including analog, digital, and circuit theory
• Understanding setup of test equipment including oscilloscopes, DMM, power supplies, multimeter
• Strong organizational, project management, and execution skills and a demonstrated ability to prioritize in a fast-paced environment
• Fluent in English with excellent oral and written communications skills
• BS in Electrical Engineering or related field + 6 years of experience, or MS + 3 years of experience, or Ph.D.

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.