
Senior/Staff System Software Applications Engineer, Optical Products
- Hsinchu City
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Work with regional Sales and FAE teams to secure design wins and strengthen relationships with key customers and strategic partners:
- Provide direct software integration/debug support to the tier-1 customers and strategic partners
- Communicate and clarify customer require system specifications and application requirements
- Demonstrate MaxLinear product evaluations and present technical seminars at customer sites and trade show events
- Support and track customer design, bring-up, validation, and debug activities
- Provide product and technical training for regional Sales and FAE teams
- Work with internal teams:
- Reproduce customer report issues and finish primary debug
- Clarify customer report issues detail and provide correct information to internal team
- Support internal host SW development work including API driver and tool development
- Support reference design software porting, integration and debugging
- Support regression and stress testing
- Gather information from customers and the market to support marketing:
- Perform feasibility studies on new product features
- Support marketing team to define new products and roadmap
- Conduct competitive intelligence studies and analyses
- Support MaxLinear product development:
- Build reference designs for system validation and customer evaluation
- Develop product test plans and generate test reports
- Generate product collateral and customer support documents including application notes, datasheets, and users’ guides
- Work with the Engineering teams to improve product reliability, quality, and product experience
- Support MaxLinear lab team:
- Manage, Test and delivery EVKs to FAEs or customers
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering
- Minimum of 5 years of optical transceiver product development experience in C/C++
- Extensive knowledge of optical transceiver products in system and application levels. MSA/CMIS knowledge is a plus
- Previous experience of optical transceiver module SW development is a plus
- Software design/debug skills are a must while basic software programming skills including driver integration and writing ATEs for reference design testing are highly desired
- The ability to write ATE SW (Python based) for reference design testing is highly desired
- Experienced in 400G/800G/1.6T transceiver design with DML, EML, Sipho Driver/TIA/CDR/DSP/PAM4; including SW/HW debug, and application support is preferred
- Familiar with lab instruments including 400G/800G/1.6T switch, Digital Communication Analyzer (DCA), Optical/Electrical Clock Recovery (CDR), logic analyzer, protocol analyzer, and BER tester, etc
- Strong ownership to productively drive customer issues to closure. Act as the interface between the customer and internal engineering to resolve technical issues
- Customer support experience is a must
- Write and maintain data sheets, technical application notes, and user guides. Must have the technical capability to guide customers through product usage
- Previous experience of supporting IC products into a high-volume shipment
- Have the ability to process multiple tasks, strong technical account management, and project management skills
- Good English communication skills
- Self-motivated with a great sense of urgency and responsibility
- Able to work well and learn quickly under pressure in a fast-paced environment
- Able to manage both technical and business-related challenges
- This requires up to 30% travel to partners and customers' on-site support