Staff Test/qa Applications Engineer

Responsibilities:
MaxLinear is seeking a Staff Applications Engineer with Software Test/QA profile to join our team. You will be accountable to ensure quality, performance, and reliability of Embedded Software and Communications Systems supplied to customers. In this role, you will focus on the following areas:

- Execute, analyze and report results of System Test Plans.
- Report and track defects, and verify associated fixes.
- Review and learn from systems specifications designed by the development teams.
- Support and analysis of customer requirements and issues.
- Design test suites to measure product/system requirements quality indicators.
- Automate test suites at system level with scripting languages and lab instrumentation APIs (goal is to automate most of the test plan).
- Work closely with R&D and FAE teams in multi-disciplinary teams.

Qualifications:

- Good Python programming skills
- BSc or MSc Degree in Telecommunications or Electronics Engineering, + 5 years of experience
- Experience in software and/or systems testing
- Knowledge of IP networking
- Basic usage of lab instrumentation including spectrum analyzer, signal generator, oscilloscope
- Open to learn new technologies, toolkits, and programming languages
- Fluent in written and spoken English
- Customer oriented and good communications skills
- Experience with the following are a plus but not required
- ISTQB Foundation Level Certification or higher
- Linux knowledge as development/work/administration environment
- Embedded Systems work experience
- Coursework in signal theory for communications
- Code versioning tool such as GIT
- Experience in Continuous Integration processes with Jenkins

Company Overview:
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; Waltham, Massachusetts; Vancouver, Canada; Valencia, Spain; Bangalore, India; Villach, Austria; 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.