MaxLinear is seeking a Senior Director of Communications Systems to join our Irvine, CA design center team. In this role, you will be responsible for managing several leaders, each of which leads a talented team of Ph.D.–level communications systems engineers. You will work with marketing and other technical team leaders to provide architectural level guidance for new products. You will manage and mentor the leaders to allow them to guide their teams in analyzing and solving difficult algorithm and technical issues, and you will be responsible for recruiting and adding to the team as needed. You will work with Marketing, RFIC, RF Systems, Software and ASIC to develop highly optimized products.

Required Experience

• Deep understanding of modern communications systems
• Leadership of high performance teams
• Ability to work with different functional areas including RFIC, ASIC, and Software
• Ability to work with marketing and present to customers
• Passion for developing great products
• Understanding of what it takes to create a product that succeeds in the market
• Strong academic background
• 10+ years of experience in at least one of the following areas (not all areas are needed):
  • Wireless modulator/demodulator design
  • Wire-line modulator/demodulator design
  • Error correction codes
  • Signal processing algorithm design
• Familiarity with wireless or wire-line communications standards
• Master of Science, PHD preferred and 10 plus years of experience

COMPANY OVERVIEW

MaxLinear is a global, New York Stock Exchange-traded company (NYSE: MXL) where the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well. We are a fabless system-on-chip product company, designing highly integrated, radio-frequency, and mixed-signal Communications ICs for broadband and infrastructure applications.

We hire the best people in the world and engage them in some of the most exciting opportunities in our broadband and infrastructure markets. Our growth has come from innovative, bold approaches to solving some of the world’s most challenging communication technology problems.

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 for satellite communications, cable modems, and terrestrial TV; diversified into high speed products addressing Datacom applications such as 400 Gbps fiber-optic interconnect chips for high-speed networks; and MoCA technology for home networking.

Our headquarters is in Carlsbad, near San Diego, California. We also have major design centers in Irvine and San Jose, CA; in Vancouver, Canada; in Valencia, Spain; and in Bangalore, India.

We have approximately 800 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 engineers 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 great products.

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Required Skills Required Experience

• B.S. in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science discipline.
• Must be able to travel as needed to support product testing, production support and launch – up to 25%
• Demonstrated team leadership, initiative, and creative problem solving skills
• Must be able to simultaneously manage multiple projects of varying complexity.
• Knowledge of design of experiments and the scientific process.
• People skills for customer interactions.
• Candidate must have outstanding written and oral communication skills, and proficiency with MS Office, specifically MS Excel.
• Highly motivated and a self-starter.
• Detail oriented and highly organized.
• Must be capable of independent work but also able to work with multi-functional teams.