Senior Director, Analog & Mixed-Signal (AMS) Engineering

Job Title

Senior Director, Analog & Mixed-Signal (AMS) Engineering

Role Summary

Lead and scale the Analog & Mixed-Signal engineering organization in Bangalore and provide functional leadership for the Taiwan Applications Engineering team. Responsible for technical strategy, team development, resource planning, and end-to-end product delivery across analog, digital, layout, systems, validation, and external partners.

Experience Level

Senior-level; preferred 15+ years of semiconductor industry experience with significant senior engineering leadership responsibility.

Responsibilities

Accountable for technical and organizational leadership across the product development lifecycle and for partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver products to production.

• Lead multidisciplinary teams: Analog, Digital, Layout, Systems Engineering, and Validation.
• Provide functional leadership for the Taiwan Applications Engineering team and align them with product and customer needs.
• Own product lifecycle from architecture and design through validation, qualification, production release, and sustaining support.
• Drive integration of analog, mixed-signal, and digital technologies including embedded control, calibration, interfaces, telemetry, and firmware interactions.
• Establish systems engineering practices to translate market and customer requirements into specifications and verification plans.
• Develop and execute resource strategies using internal teams and external partners (design houses, contractors, IP providers).
• Ensure high design quality, predictable execution, first-silicon success, and robust validation coverage.
• Build, mentor, and retain high-performing teams and develop future technical leaders.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for critical technical, product, customer, and resource issues.
• Drive continuous improvement in design methodology, automation, verification frameworks, and engineering productivity.

Requirements

Must-have technical leadership, execution experience, and cross-functional skills to deliver complex semiconductor products. Preferred technical areas are listed separately.

• Must-have: Proven leadership managing large semiconductor engineering organizations across analog, mixed-signal, digital, systems, layout, verification, and validation.
• Strong technical expertise in analog and mixed-signal IC development and SoC integration.
• Demonstrated success in system architecture, requirements definition, trade-off analysis, and product-level performance optimization.
• Experience managing global engineering teams and external design partners, contractors, and IP suppliers.
• Proven track record delivering semiconductor products from concept through high-volume production, including first-silicon bring-up and customer ramp.
• Leadership skills in talent development, succession planning, and organizational management.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and executive-level communication skills.
• Customer-focused approach with experience resolving critical technical issues and translating customer needs into product roadmaps.
• Nice-to-have: Experience with serial transceivers, bridges, isolators, clocking, data converters, telemetry, PMICs/regulators, digital verification, embedded control, firmware-aware development, silicon debug, and design-for-test methodologies.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred. The posting does not state an explicit "or equivalent experience" clause.

About the Company

Company: MaxLinear

Headquarters: Carlsbad, CA, United States

Fabless semiconductor company that designs RF, analog, digital, and mixed-signal system-on-chip solutions for access and connectivity, data center and optical interconnects, wired/wireless infrastructure, and industrial and multi-market applications.