Responsibilities

We are looking for an experienced Principal RFIC Design Engineer to take a leading technical role in the development of highly integrated RF and mixed-signal ICs.

The ideal candidate combines deep hands-on circuit-design expertise with strong system understanding and a proven ability to drive complex designs from architecture and specification through implementation, verification, silicon bring-up, and production. The role has significant influence on RF architecture, technical decisions, design methodology, and the development of the broader RFIC team. The main responsabilities are the following:

- Lead the architecture, design, simulation, and verification of complex RF, analog baseband, data-converter, SerDes, and mixed-signal circuits
- Own critical RFIC blocks from specification through tapeout, silicon bring-up, characterization, production, and simulation-to-measurement correlation
- Design and/or technically lead circuits such as LNAs, PAs, mixers, VGAs, RF front ends, ADCs, DACs, filters, analog baseband signal-processing chains, SerDes analog front ends, PLLs and frequency synthesizers, VCOs and DCOs, clock-generation and distribution circuits, biasing, and power-management circuitry
- Translate system-level requirements into circuit specifications, architectures, verification plans, and robust designs across PVT, mismatch, noise, linearity, stability, dynamic range, power, and reliability
- Lead RFIC top-level integration and sign-off across RF, analog, digital, package, PCB, and power domains, including supply coupling, spurs, isolation, and signal integrity




- Partner with layout engineers on RF-aware layout, parasitic optimization, EM analysis, extraction, and post-layout verification
- Work with validation, test, and product engineering to define characterization, calibration, ATE, and production-test strategies for high-volume manufacturing
- Lead complex silicon investigations, identify root causes, and drive issues to resolution during bring-up and productization
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship through design reviews, methodology improvements, and cross-functional technical alignment

Qualifications

- BSc, MSc, or PhD in Electrical or Electronic Engineering, or a related field, with a minimum of 10 years of industry experience in RFIC or analog/mixed-signal IC design and demonstrated ownership of complex designs that reached production silicon
- Strong RF and analog fundamentals, including noise, linearity, matching, stability, feedback, device modeling, process variation, data-converter performance, and analog baseband signal processing
- Hands-on design experience across several RF, data-converter, SerDes, frequency-generation, or analog baseband blocks, such as LNAs, PAs, mixers, VGAs, ADCs, DACs, filters, variable-gain signal chains, SerDes analog front ends, PLLs,



VCOs, and DCOs
- Solid experience with Cadence Virtuoso/Spectre or equivalent environments and with relevant verification methods, including S-parameters, PSS/PAC/PNOISE, transient noise, and data-converter or baseband performance analysis
- Strong understanding of layout-dependent effects, parasitic extraction, EM effects, RF layout optimization, and post-layout verification
- Experience developing high-volume integrated products in advanced CMOS technologies for wireless connectivity, wireline communications, data conversion, SerDes, networking, or other complex analog and mixed-signal applications
- Practical understanding of on-chip LDOs, biasing, calibration, package and PCB interactions, ATE, production test, and high-volume manufacturing
- Strong analytical, silicon-debug, technical decision-making, and cross-disciplinary communication skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English

Compensation and Benefits

- Competitive Salary Package
- Stock-based compensation
- Private Medical Insurance
- Life Insurance

Company Overview

MaxLinear is a general, 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 applica

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