Senior Director Platform and Applications Engineering, DCC

MaxLinear, Inc.•San Jose, CA

3d•$238,000 - $294,000•Onsite

About The Position

MaxLinear is seeking a Senior Director Platform and Applications Engineering focused on high-speed data center interconnects to join our team. In this role, you will focus on growing our Data Center Connectivity BU (DCC) business. This includes providing leadership to a global team of Platform and Applications Engineers who offer design-in technical support to global customers for DCC BUs products. You will help the team prioritize tasks, interface with customers and internal teams, manage budgets, and annual resource plans. You will manage a team of hardware and software engineers to create reference designs using MxL products for customer evaluation and adoption, which may include Transceiver modules, opto-electronic engines, and active cables used in high-speed datacenters. Additionally, you will manage an Applications Engineering team that interfaces between customers and internal teams to overcome customer design-in challenges by reproducing, debugging, and solving technical issues emerging from the integration of MxL products in customer platforms. You will also support internal development of FW augmentation, API driver, and diagnostic tools. Working with regional Sales and FAEs, you will secure design wins and strengthen relationships with key customers and strategic partners, understanding customer use cases and requirements to help craft product requirements for internal development teams. You will gather customer and market information, including use case studies, new product roadmaps, and competitive intelligence studies and analysis to support marketing. Collaboration with internal teams and customers is key to define validation plans for high-speed Ethernet/InfiniBand optical transceivers, active optical cables (AOCs), and active electronic cables (AECs) tested by automated test equipment (ATE). Finally, you will build and manage test and validation labs geared towards customer enablement.

Requirements

Previous management experience building and managing large engineering teams is a must
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)
Extensive knowledge of optical transceiver products at system and application levels including optical modules and components, and optical communications systems
Strong software and hardware design and debugging skills are desirable.
Driver integration and ATE development experience for platform characterization/debugging is a plus
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
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
Previous experience in high speed Serdes or Analog IC development or in optical transceiver module development is a must
Strong leadership is required to oversee the work of application and platform engineers specializing in high-speed networking hardware, software and validation systems
Strong ownership to productively drive customer technical issues to closure, interfacing between the customer and internal engineering
Excellent verbal and written 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
Ability to work well under pressure and learn quickly in a fast-paced environment
Able to deal with both technical and business challenges
Strong communicator with experience presenting to senior management
Customer support experience is desirable
BS in Electrical Engineering or related + 15 years of experience, or MS + 13 years of experience, or Ph.D. + 10 years of experience

Nice To Haves

Driver integration and ATE development experience for platform characterization/debugging is a plus
Customer support experience is desirable

Responsibilities

Provide leadership to a global team of Platform and Applications Engineers providing design-in technical support to global customers for DCC BUs products
Help team prioritize tasks, interface with customers and internal teams, manage budget, and annual resource plans
Manage team of hardware and software engineers to create reference designs using MxL products for customer evaluation and adoption; reference designs may include Transceiver modules, opto-electronic engines, and active cables used in high-speed datacenters
Manage Applications Engineering team that interfaces between customers and internal teams to overcome customer design-in challenges by reproducing, debugging, and solving technical issues emerging from the integration of MxL products in customer platforms
Support internal development of FW augmentation, API driver, and diagnostic tools
Work with regional Sales and FAEs to secure design wins and strengthen relationships with key customers and strategic partners; understand customer use cases and requirements and help craft product requirements for internal development teams
Gather customer and market information including use case studies, new product roadmap, and competitive intelligence studies, and analysis to support marketing
Collaborate with internal teams and customers 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)
Build and manage test and validation labs geared towards customer enablement