Principal Systems Integration & Test Engineer

Bangalore, Karnataka
Permanent
Full-time

1 month ago

ResponsibilitiesMaxLinear is seeking a Principal Systems Integration & Test Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will focus on the following:

Provide technical and strategic leadership for the end-to-end validation of a Network/Packet Processor from pre-silicon to post-silicon product release
Engage directly with customers and internal stakeholders to ensure alignment, clarity, and timely delivery of a production-grade solution
Hands-on technical leadership role spanning hardware, firmware, Linux, and datapath
Define and own pre-silicon validation strategy using Emulation, and FPGA
Understand Product requirement, Software requirements and work with Architects to come up with a comprehensive Test plan covering Functional, Performance, Stability of the product
Lead and coordinate post-silicon bring-up, ensuring rapid progress, structured execution, and cross-team alignment
Lead system-level debug across HW / FW / Linux / datapath to root-cause and resolve complex issues
Establish and scale test infrastructure, fostering automation, CI/CD-driven workflows, and continuous improvement in validation efficiency and quality
Build and scale test infrastructure and automation, drive issue triage and closure
Promote AI-driven validation approaches, including predictive triage, automated log analysis, anomaly detection, and intelligent test selection to significantly enhance coverage and engineering efficiency

Qualifications

10+ years of experience in this domain
Strong experience in systems integration and validation for complex SoC platforms
Hands-on exposure to both pre-silicon and post-silicon validation
Experience with Linux bring-up and network / packet processor Datapath validation
Experience with Network protocols, Traffic generators, QOS, Tunnels, Throughput, Security
Proven ability to debug complex system-level issues
Strong cross-functional technical leadership skills
Good to have Python for test automation, test framework design, tooling, and data analysis
Good to have Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated validation workflows, and infrastructure-as-code approaches
Good to have Experience with test architecture
Good to have Background in customer qualification, interoperability, or certification workflows

Company OverviewMaxLinear 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; 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.

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