Senior Field Applications Engineer

Responsibilities

• Work with Max Linear Sales, Marketing, and Systems Engineering teams to secure design wins at key customers and strengthen relationships between customer engineers and Max Linear
• Work directly with key customer engineers to:
  • Promote Max Linear's products and technology advantages
  • Qualify the technical feasibility of new programs
  • Communicate, review, and clarify product specifications and application circuit requirements
  • Review component selection, schematics, and layout files to ensure customer first pass success and quick time to market
  • Demonstrate evaluation kits (hardware and GUIs)
  • Bring up, debug, and test customer boards and track support issues with Max Linear Systems Engineering
• Provide field trial support
• Gather information from customers and the market to support Sales and Marketing:
• Assess customer technical capabilities and program resourcing to determine likelihood of success
• Assess resources required from Max Linear to ensure customer program success
• Gather information about competitor products, schedules, capabilities, features, and support
• Gather information about new product features to help define new products and roadmaps
• Track customer program revisions and schedules
• Support Max Linear product development:
  • Design and layout reference-design boards
  • Make recommendations on GUI software
  • Test hardware and software releases in advance of shipment to customers
  • Write documentation to support reference designs and development kits
  • Write customer support documents (application notes, datasheets, and FAQs)
  • Work with customers and the internal Quality team to , debug, and troubleshoot product quality issues

• Strong knowledge of RF, Mixed Signal, and Digital Communications concepts
• Ability to manage and resolve technical and business challenges with customers
• Strong skills in problem solving and analysis
• Able to communicate effectively verbally and in writing
• Ability to work well and learn quickly under pressure in a fast-paced environment
• Preferred qualification (not required)
  • 5G O-RAN / Small Cell experience
  • Optical networking, SFU, gateway WiFi experience
  • Data Compression, storage acceleration, security experience
  • Ethernet experience- PHYs, Switches, POE
  • Working understanding of power, interface transceivers, basic analog
  • Hands-on experience in schematic and layout design, IC debug
  • Programming languages such as C, C++, C#, .NET
• BS in Electrical Engineering or related + 7 years of experience, or MS + 5 years of experience, or Ph.D. + 2 years of experience

Max Linear has a Total Compensation philosophy which includes base salary and annual discretionary bonus eligibility and many positions also include stock-based compensation.

Max Linear expects to offer a starting base salary within the range of: $123,300 to $191,475 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), and paid time off.

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.

Max Linear 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.…