Job Description

About TI

Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is a global semiconductor design and manufacturing company that develops analog ICs and embedded processors. By employing the world's brightest minds, TI creates innovations that shape the future of technology. TI is helping about 100,000 customers transform the future, today. We're committed to building a better future – from the responsible manufacturing of our semiconductors, to caring for our employees, to giving back inside our communities and developing great minds. In TI's Power Products, we're developing breakthrough technology to power the world's future innovations as well. Put your talent to work with us – change the world, love your job!

Why Mid-Vin Buck (MVB)

Enterprise, Industrial, Personal Electronics, Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Driving are just a few of the trends driving the need for high current mid-voltage regulators. The Mid-Vin Buck product line is focused on bringing to market the optimized power package solution for improved performance, reliability, and throughput. The Mid-Vin Buck team actively collaborates with TI's advanced technology, packaging, and research and development teams to deliver the highest power density solutions for the power level.

About The Job

At TI, Validation Engineers leverage strong technical knowledge working hands-on to bring differentiated power solutions to our customers globally. Validation Engineers also partner closely with Design, Test, Systems and Application engineers to ensure our power solutions are both meeting customer and market requirements and are technically and cost-wise optimized. The validation engineer in MVB has to evaluate the system-level performance also for enterprise computing.

About The Role And Team

Develop validation board, schematics and layout, matching it with customer use-case & applications. The validation boards include - modularization of the Val board for generic flow, solving mixed-signal challenges, scalability of HW for a large number of setups and most importantly closeness to the customer EVMs.
Build, design, and document the full validation plan. The validation plan needs a detailed understanding of not only the device but also the system environment.
Define the Validation Strategy in terms of Hardware, Software and Instrumentation
Building Validation test cases and implementing them on different scripting languages. (i.e. Python, Test stand, Labview etc.)
Bring the device on the bench; Perform system level and parametric test on the bench with a strong break-the-part mentality.
Work with design and Firmware team to support customer needs, and implement custom features in FW. Close collaboration with FW and application teams to understand the device issues and bugs and find the FW-level workaround for the fix.
Debug device and setup-related issues and drive the issue to closure independently
Engaging on customer issues and fixes with application engineers, to help them understand the device better, help to fix the issues and provide modifications if any tweaks are needed. This is done in collaboration with application engineers.
Team leading skillset along with mentoring and guiding junior engineers in the team.

Qualifications

Minimum requirements:

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field of study
5+ years of relevant experience; 8+ preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in validation engineering of analog products
Demonstrates hardware debugging skills.
Excellent time management; Strong written and verbal communication skills
Experience in simulating and designing inverters and/or DCDC converters
Knowledge of semiconductor power switches like MOSFET, IGBT, and SiC MOSFET
Expertise in tools e.g. Simplis, Matlab, Altium, PSPICE, LabView, Python
Schematic and PCB layout design in Altium.
Physical layout management, signal grounding and routing tradeoffs, optimization
Must budget time, manage schedule and complete complex design tasks on time
Must have depth of experience and meticulous approach to ensure high-quality results
Must account for limitations of system-level specifications, testability, and debug
Must work well with colleagues and customers to foster a highly creative, interesting, productive, and fun working environment

About Us

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.

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.

If you are interested in this position, please apply to this requisition.

About The Team

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.

Validation/Characterization Engineer