Staff Firmware Engineer
MaxLinear, Inc.7 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Develop new features for Voice over IP stacks, Telephony DSP, and SLIC applications.
- Fine-tune audio algorithm and application parameters for optimal performance.
- Collaborate on software development, debugging, customer support, and issue reproduction.
- Enable customer IP integrations.
- Develop tools to monitor and analyze audio quality in SIP infrastructure.
- Assist with deployment, configuration, and QA automation tasks.
- Communicate clearly and promptly with relevant teams.
Requirements
- Expert C programming skills with at least five years of experience.
- Strong hands-on expertise in voice signaling and media processing for SIP, IMS, and advanced voice programs.
- Experience developing Linux kernel drivers, multithreaded software, OS inter-process communication, Linux systems, networking software, and related tools.
- Experience with socket programming and UDP/TCP networking.
- Knowledge of real-time communication protocols and technologies including SIP, SDP, RTP, and SRTP.
- BE/BTech in Electronics, Telecommunication, Computer Science Engineering, or a related field with five or more years of experience, or MS/MTech with three or more years of experience.
- Knowledge of ITU-T telephony standards, PacketCable, and audio codecs is advantageous.
- Familiarity with Wireshark packet tracing and telephony call-control analysis is advantageous.
- Familiarity with security authentication, Kerberos, SDL, and threat modeling is advantageous.
About MaxLinear, Inc.
MaxLinear is a fabless semiconductor company that designs highly integrated analog, RF, mixed-signal, and digital SoCs used in broadband access, Wi‑Fi, GPON, RAN, and data‑center connectivity. It sells chips and platform solutions to communications, networking, and industrial OEMs, with products spanning DOCSIS modems, RF transceivers, and microwave/mmWave backhaul. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Carlsbad, California, the company is publicly traded under the ticker MXL.