Dwight Larson joined Maxim as a power-supply and hot-swap applications engineer in 2004. Before joining Maxim, he worked as a mixed-signal instrumentation design engineer at Mykrolis Corp. in Allen, Texas. He was awarded four patents during his work at Mykrolis. Larson received a BSEE from the University of Houston in 1996. Prior to earning his degree, he served as a submarine nuclear reactor mechanic and radiological controls technician in the United States Navy from 1985 to 1991.