Software Engineering Manager
MaxLinear · Carlsbad, CA
$167,000–$206,000
Jul 6, 2026
Carlsbad, CA
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
Senior level · 7+ years · San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA · Bachelor's required · Full-time
Pay in the description: $167,000–$206,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $211,286 (middle half $169,099–$267,976). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The title carries no seniority level word, so the title states no level; the actual scope (team leadership, people management, performance reviews, cross-functional ownership) clearly maps to a people-management role at the Senior band.
The role is a genuine engineering manager position with direct reports, performance reviews, and hiring/career-development responsibilities — hence 11-3021 (Computer and Information Systems Managers). The alt code 15-1252 reflects the strong hands-on technical component (silicon bring-up, code review, architecture review) described throughout.
Degree requirement: the JD states 'BS … 9 years, or MS … 7 years, or Ph.D. … 4 years' as a combined gate. A Bachelor's is the minimum formal degree listed; the overall years minimum is set to 7 (the MS path, which is the middle option and the most common for this level), but the BS+9 path is also valid.
FPGA appears in the required responsibilities section ('FPGA/emulation platforms') rather than an explicit skills list, but it is clearly a hard gate given the bring-up duties described.
Optical networking, SerDes, Ethernet, JTAG, Python, CI/CD, and Agile all appear under the 'Preferred Experience' heading and are marked accordingly.
Compensation includes base salary plus annual discretionary bonus and stock-based compensation (ESPP); only the base salary range is quoted numerically.
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