Product Engineer | Audio AC

Texas Instruments•Dallas, TX

About The Position

Product engineering works with design and other back-end teams to ensure products are designed for manufacturability and reliability. Product Engineers typically work on a product family or category and ensure devices meet specifications and quality targets defined in data sheets. The role may also include sustaining support: working with design, ATD (process technology), manufacturing, test, quality, reliability, and marketing teams to optimize the manufacturing flow of a released device. This work targets cost reduction or other improvements to the device’s long-term development and profit profile. Texas Instruments is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures, and sells analog and embedded processing chips. The company describes its culture as collaborative and highlights comprehensive benefits supporting employee well-being.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
At least 1 year of relevant experience.
Solid understanding of analog and digital circuits, their operation, and analysis.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience using laboratory equipment for data collection, device debugging, or failure analysis, such as curve tracers, return loss analyzers, oscilloscopes, and spectrum analyzers.
Experience bench testing op-amps, ADCs, mixed-signal circuits, and digital circuits.
Experience with bench validation and characterization PCBs.
Experience with integrated circuit and device failure analysis.
Programming skills for automation of bench characterization equipment (LabVIEW/TestStand), along with C and/or C++.
Extensive knowledge of statistics and tools for analyzing large amounts of characterization data, determining and setting production test limits, and predicting yield data.
Working knowledge of what is required to take a product from development to production.
Ability to work in a team setting comprising other functional groups.
Strong time-management skills that support on-time project delivery.
Demonstrated ability to build strong, influential relationships.
Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
Ability to take initiative and drive results.
Strong problem-solving, verbal, and written communication skills.
Ability to manage multiple projects and maintain project schedules.

Responsibilities

Work with design and back-end teams to ensure products are designed for manufacturability and reliability.
Ensure devices in an assigned product family or category meet data-sheet specifications and quality targets.
Provide sustaining support for released devices, collaborating with design, ATD (process technology), manufacturing, test, quality, reliability, and marketing teams.
Optimize manufacturing flows to reduce cost or improve a device’s long-term development and profit profile.