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Applications Engineer

Dallas, TXOnsiteFull TimePosted 1 month agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • Electrical Engineering
  • ECE
  • analog products
  • hardware debugging
  • software debugging
  • bench characterization
  • bench automation
  • hardware design
  • test techniques
  • schematic review

Nice to have

  • communication skills
  • analytical skills
  • problem-solving skills
  • initiative
  • results-driven
  • project delivery

Role summary

Texas Instruments (TI) is seeking an Applications Engineer with a passion for innovation and a strong technical background to support high-speed amplifiers. This role involves providing application support to customers, including answering technical questions, reviewing schematics and layouts, debugging customer issues, and supporting design-in activities for released and new products. Responsibilities also include designing and creating evaluation boards, user guides, test procedures, and application notes. The engineer will perform bench characterization, participate in new silicon testing, and create custom reference designs. A Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field and 2+ years of relevant experience are required, along with solid hardware and software debugging skills and the ability to produce high-quality technical documentation.

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Our business has very high growth in TI and is in a segment where the market is fast growing. We're searching for applications engineer who have the passion and excitement to grow, innovative, take an active role in product definition, execute the characterization until ramp, and provide post ramp application support to customers.

This role is responsible for application support for high speed amplifiers. Key responsibilities include:

  • Answer customer questions and supporting design-in activities for released products. This includes:
  • Forum and email questions from customers
  • Schematic and Layout Review of customer application
  • Debug of customer problems by re-creating issues in our evaluation boards and/or customer boards
  • On-site support for customer board as required
  • Design EVM and internal evaluation boards to support correlation and evaluation activities of new products
  • Create user guides, test procedures and proper release of EVM boards for customer consumption
  • Participate in datasheet review to ensure completeness of datasheet being developed by the Systems Engineer
  • Perform Bench Characterization for High Speed Amplifiers devices, including bench automation, hardware design and develop test techniques
  • Participate in new silicon testing from an application perspective to ensure robustness of the product (i.e. destructive testing)
  • Work with systems engineer to provide support to early design in activities for new products
  • Create custom reference designs targeting relevant applications to be used as customer implementation ideas
  • Write application notes that explain different use cases, implementation and/or flexibility of our products

Qualifications

Minimum requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, ECE, or related field
  • 2+ years of relevant experience
  • Experience in applications support of analog products
  • Solid hardware and software debugging skills
  • Strong technical background, with the ability to produce high quality technical documentation


Preferred qualifications:

  • Ability to establish strong relationships with key stakeholders critical to success, both internally and externally
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to quickly ramp on new systems and processes
  • Demonstrated strong interpersonal, analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to work in teams and collaborate effectively with people in different functions
  • Ability to take the initiative and drive for results
  • Strong time management skills that enable on-time project delivery

Why TI?
  • Engineer your future. We empower our employees to truly own their career and development. Come collaborate with some of the smartest people in the world to shape the future of electronics.
  • We're different by design. Diverse backgrounds and perspectives are what push innovation forward and what make TI stronger. We value each and every voice, and look forward to hearing yours. Meet the people of TI
  • Benefits that benefit you. We offer competitive pay and benefits designed to help you and your family live your best life. Your well-being is important to us. Please find our country-specific benefits here

About Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Incorporated (Nasdaq: TXN) is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and sells analog and embedded processing chips for markets such as industrial, automotive, data center, personal electronics and communications equipment. At our core, we have a passion to create a better world by making electronics more affordable through semiconductors. This passion is alive today as each generation of innovation builds upon the last to make our technology more reliable, more affordable and lower power, making it possible for semiconductors to go into electronics everywhere. Learn more at TI.com.
Texas Instruments is an equal opportunity employer and supports a diverse, inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, disability, genetic information, national origin, gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
If you are interested in this position, please apply to this requisition.
TI does not make recruiting or hiring decisions based on citizenship, immigration status or national origin. However, if TI determines that information access or export control restrictions based upon applicable laws and regulations would prohibit you from working in this position without first obtaining an export license, TI expressly reserves the right not to seek such a license for you and either offer you a different position that does not require an export license or decline to move forward with your employment.

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