# Senior Principal Digital SoC Design Engineer

Responsibilities MaxLinear is seeking a Senior Principal Digital SoC Design Engineer to join our Analog Mixed Signal (AMS) group in San Jose, CA. The AMS team develops a broad portfolio of integrated solutions spanning high speed and embedded connectivity interfaces (bridges, serial transceivers, isolators) and power management, supporting data center, industrial, and embedded platforms. In this role, you will lead digital architecture and RTL for a roadmap of products ranging from USB-based connectivity bridges to PCIe-to-USB host bridge devices, to complex embedded-processor SoCs for data center platform management, and will focus on the following: Lead digital architecture and RTL for USB device-side connectivity bridges, including multi-port serial (UART), I²C/SPI/GPIO bridging, endpoint/FIFO architecture, flow control, and OTP-based configurability and customization Architect and integrate PCIe-to-USB host bridge solutions, including PCIe endpoint and USB host controller (xHCI) integration, DMA engines, buffer management, interrupt and power-state handling, and driver-visible register architecture Define and lead digital architecture for complex embedded-processor SoCs for dat

- **Id**: 4048530
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/maxlinear-senior-principal-digital-soc-design-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Jose, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T00:57:26Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T00:57:26Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
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- **Benefits**: 401k plan
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Incident Response, Processors, MCUs & AI Chips, RF & Wireless Hardware, Analog & Power Semiconductors

## Company

- **Id**: 64219
- **Name**: Maxlinear
- **Domain**: maxlinear.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/maxlinear>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: iCIMS

## Technologies

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- **Verilog** — Optional: no
- **Wi-Fi** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T00:57:26Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 17 · green card filings: 10; Filings 12m: 17

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 46
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T02:20:38Z

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