About the Role
MaxLinear is seeking a SoC Design Engineer to join its SoC Front-End Design team, contributing to the development of state-of-the-art ICs and IPs for the wireless connectivity SoC market.
Responsibilities
- Design digital logic with high-level description language (VHDL/Verilog) from specification
- Design quality RTL that meets all design requirements including input/output, constraints, multiple clock domains, functional modes, and analog blocks
- Design RTL with low power requirements from standard power intent file input
- Design RTL for SoC and FPGA-friendly and DFT compliant code
- Design RTL for IP development and SoC assembly
- Design RTL for SoC Clock & Reset structures is a plus
- Verify the design through extensive test-bench simulation and debug with FPGA prototyping
- Work with other RTL2netlist and Backend teams to resolve design issues
Requirements
- Experience in the complete cycle of DSM (65, 45, 40, 28, 16nm) SoC Design, verification and tape-out experience of several million-gates-count complex SoC together with validation of silicon is essential
- Experience through IC life cycle from conception, design, verification, tapeout and silicon validation
- Able to work in a multi-cultural team with a strong drive to excel
- Able to work independently on a given assignment and work hard to finish on time
- Good written and communication skills
Skills
- VHDL/Verilog
- RTL design
- Low power design
- FPGA prototyping
- Design For Test (DFT)
- Synthesis
- Logic Equivalent checks
- UPF/CPF
- SoC connectivity tools
- GPS
- WLAN
- BT
- NFC
- Ethernet
- SoC/ARM/AHB bus design
Location
- Carlsbad, California
- Irvine, California
- San Jose, California
- Valencia, Spain
- Bangalore, India
- Munich, Germany
- Israel
- Singapore
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Fresh local graduates are welcome to apply
Education Level
- Bachelor Degree/Master's in Electrical/Electronics Engineering with an emphasis in IC design
About the Company
- 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.
- 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; Valencia, Spain; Bangalore, India; Munich, Germany; Israel; and Singapore.
- We have approximately 1,200 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.
