Principal Foundation IP Design Engineer

Responsibilities

MaxLinear is seeking a Principal Foundation IP Design Engineer to join our team. You will play a critical role in the technology and IP section for the product, driving value-added IP development, optimization, and deployment. This position provides the opportunity to learn about the technology, design, tool, and methodology interactions that drive the development of products targeting broadband, mobile, and wireline infrastructure, data center, and industrial applications. In this role, you will focus on the following:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities to maximize process entitlement and optimize PPA metrics
• Drive design technology co-optimization (DTCO) efforts for new technologies
• Research low power design strategies and propose ideas to ensure robust circuit operation that meets performance targets at the lowest possible power
• Conduct feasibility studies and develop strategies to analyze designs, compare IPs, and identify opportunities to maximize process entitlement
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers and other teams
• Explore and evaluate new EDA tools and tool features to improve productivity, and propose design, analysis, and optimization strategies
• Communicate findings, insights, and recommendations to stakeholders and senior management

Qualifications

• Experience in standard cell design, analysis, and layout optimization, custom IP design, and foundation IP library management
• Expertise in EDA tools, methodologies, and flows for physical design from floor-planning, place-and-route, static timing analysis (STA), physical (DRC, LVS, DFM), and electrical validation (ERC, EM/IR, and signal integrity)
• Experience with low-power implementation flows and methodologies like clock and power-gating, dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS), multi-voltage domain designs, power-collapse, and leakage recovery
• Knowledge of transistor-level/gate-level circuit design, HDLs like Verilog/VHDL, standard cell characterization, circuit/design simulation, logic synthesis, and experience driving pathfinding/technology benchmarking and design optimization activities
• Experience working with FINFET and/or other modern transistor technologies and designs targeting technology nodes 7nm and below
• Strong communication skills and the ability to clearly convey complex ideas. Demonstrated experience working with teams spread across different continents
• BS in Electrical Engineering or related + 9 years of experience, or MS + 7 years of experience, or Ph.D. + 4 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: $120,300 to $190,000 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; Vancouver, Canada; Valencia, Spain; Bangalore and Chennai, India; 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.