Overview
Principal Systems Integration & Test Engineer Jobs in Irvine, USA at MaxLinear, Inc.
Responsibilities
- 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
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Title: Principal Systems Integration & Test Engineer
Company: MaxLinear, Inc.
Location: Irvine, USA
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