Applications Engineer | mmWave Radar

Texas Instruments•Dallas, TX

About The Position

The Radar BU is seeking a mmWave Radar Application Engineer to join its HPR HW Applications team, supporting Radar portfolio across Automotive and Industrial markets. This role involves being a technical expert on mmWave sensors and RF products, systems, and applications support. Applications engineers at TI partner with Systems and Marketing teams to create collateral, documentation, and tools that accelerate customer development. They also play a key role in introducing new end-equipments by showcasing product features in new contexts. This role provides pre- and post-sales support to customers through forums and by collaborating with Sales teams. Additionally, they may assist customer quality engineers with evaluating customer returns by recreating issues, setting up devices for probe and debug, or developing test improvement plans.

Requirements

Masters in Electrical Engineering, ECE, Computer Engineering or equivalent degree
5+ years of experience and with proven history of technical accomplishment
Experience in PCB design tools such as Altium or Cadence
Strong knowledge and understanding of RF, analog, mixed-signal and high-speed digital circuits.
Demonstrated strong analytical and problem solving skills
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Ability to work in teams and collaborate effectively with people in different functions
Strong time management skills that enable on-time project delivery
Demonstrated ability to build strong, influential relationships
Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment
Ability to take the initiative and drive for results
Strong time management skills and the ability to work towards a deadline.
Able to work proactively on identifying problems and solve them.
Ability to multi-task and handle/prioritize multiple tasks.

Nice To Haves

Solid understanding of transmission lines, RF matching, power management, Cascading -MIMO techniques.
Experience in designing evaluation boards at mmWave frequencies and PCB best practices at RF frequencies.
Working experience with tools such as ANSYS HFSS, Keysight ADS, Allegro, Altium and MATLAB.
Experience with lab equipment, like spectrum analyzers, signal generators, network analyzers, logic analyzers and oscilloscopes.

Responsibilities

Apply mmWave and RF knowledge to design 60/77GHz radar products into automotive and industrial customer systems.
Design EVM, socket boards, and review customer board designs schematics and layouts.
Support customer returned silicon with bench debug closely working with Design, PE, Quality and Systems team.
Project manage all EVM deliverables from setting up Galileo and SAP tools to engaging with TI EVM planners.
Provide E2E and customer support and technical guidance to the field engineers for the best working solution of TI products in customer systems.
Design and develop RF/mmWave solutions and provide design recommendations to specific end equipment customers.
Perform Radar and host processors bench-level measurements.
Create product collateral such as datasheet, errata, applications note, users guide, technical reference manual, etc.
Develop and drive innovation in the applications team to support existing and future devices and customers.
Work in close collaboration with marketing, system, design, system architects, and production test engineers’ teams to make sure that the products have the expected functionality and datasheet performance satisfactory to our customers’ needs.
Work with design, marketing and product definition teams to successfully launch new products into the market
Promote TI products and providing appropriate technical solutions to customers to solve their design challenges
Provide technical support to customers
Engage with customers to help them define new products and uncover opportunities for future product development
Act as a technical bridge between the customer and factory to help solve complex technical problems or develop competitive, high-performance working proposals for customers
Support the customer's technical seminars and distributor training sessions