BLDC Motor Drive Application Engineer

Texas Instruments•Dallas, TX

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About The Position

Texas Instruments is seeking an applications engineer to support a high-growth business in a fast-growing market. The role involves taking an active part in product definition, executing product characterization through ramp, and providing post-ramp application support to customers. The posting describes responsibility for application support for high-speed amplifiers, including customer design-in assistance, evaluation-board development, device characterization, and support for new-product development. The engineer will answer customer questions and support released-product design-ins, review customer schematics and layouts, and help debug customer issues by recreating them on evaluation or customer boards. The position also contributes to new-product activities with systems engineers, develops reference designs and technical documentation, and tests new silicon from an application perspective.

Requirements

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, ECE, or a related field.
2–3 years of relevant experience.
Experience supporting applications of analog products.
Solid hardware and software debugging skills.
Strong technical background and ability to produce high-quality technical documentation.

Nice To Haves

Ability to establish strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to quickly ramp up on new systems and processes.
Strong interpersonal, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to work in teams and collaborate effectively with people in different functions.
Ability to take initiative and drive results.
Strong time-management skills that enable on-time project delivery.

Responsibilities

Answer customer questions and support design-in activities for released products, including forum and email support.
Review customer schematics and layouts.
Debug customer problems by recreating issues on evaluation boards and/or customer boards.
Provide on-site customer board support as required.
Design EVMs and internal evaluation boards for new-product correlation and evaluation activities.
Create user guides and test procedures, and manage proper release of EVM boards for customer use.
Participate in datasheet reviews to ensure completeness of datasheets being developed by systems engineers.
Perform bench characterization of high-speed amplifier devices, including bench automation, hardware design, and development of test techniques.
Participate in new-silicon testing from an application perspective to ensure product robustness, including destructive testing.
Work with systems engineers to support early design-in activities for new products.
Create custom reference designs for relevant applications as customer implementation ideas.
Write application notes explaining product use cases, implementation, and flexibility.