Lead Test Engineer – Switching Regulator
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-Voltage Regulators
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, Test Engineers leverage strong technical knowledge working hands-on to bring differentiated power solutions to our customers globally. Test Engineers also partner closely with Design, Validation, Systems and Application engineers to ensure our power solutions are both meeting customer and market requirements, and are technically and cost-wise optimized.
About the role and team:
- Work with design team to understand design specifications
- Generate test plan, create test and char program, design ATE hardware interface boards
- Debug & characterize silicon on ATE, correlate results with bench data
- Analyze silicon results, supporting failure analysis tasks
- Perform statistical analysis of yield fallout, debug and fix yield issues; optimize test time
- Work with production team to release products to volume production
- Test strategy definition and implementation for new DCDC converter products
- ATE (Automatic Test Equipment) test hardware and software knowledge base
- Silicon qualification & characterization including qual hardware development
- Comprehensive device debugging, design validation and failure analysis
- Drive for robust and cost-effective test solutions while being accountable for product quality
Minimum requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field of study
- 5+ years of relevant experience, 8+ preferred
- ATE experience on Teradyne Eagle or equivalent analog ATE (iFlex, LTX, VLCT), although Eagle experience is preferred and is a differentiator
- Characterization test program and hardware development experience, Production test program and hardware development experience
- Strong technical knowledge of electronic devices and circuits, and Analog test techniques
- Data analysis skills using Spotfire, dataPower or equivalent tool based on STDF
- Experience with various lab equipment such as scopes, power supplies, sourcemeters, loads etc.
- Experience with product engineering activities such as yield improvement and test time reduction
- Strong understanding of the IC product development process, from concept to volume production
Preferred qualifications:
- Mixed signal test techniques and experience with developing mixed-signal tests on ATE, especially Power Products
- Experience with test program and hardware offload to offshore manufacturing sites
- Proficiency in programming/scripting in C++, Python, C#
- Revision control tools experience
- Demonstrated strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work in team 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
- 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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
- 5+ years of relevant experience
- ATE experience on Teradyne Eagle or equivalent
- Characterization test program and hardware development
- Strong technical knowledge of electronic devices
- Data analysis skills using Spotfire or equivalent
- Experience with lab equipment such as scopes and power supplies
- Experience with product engineering activities such as yield improvement
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What We Do
Texas Instruments develops semiconductor and computer technology for cellular handsets, digital signal processors and analog semiconductors. Texas Instruments has been making progress possible for decades. We are a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures, tests and sells analog and embedded processing chips. Our more than 80,000 products help over 100,000 customers efficiently manage power, accurately sense and transmit data and provide the core control or processing in their designs, going into markets such as industrial, automotive, personal electronics, communications equipment and enterprise systems. Our passion to create a better world by making electronics more affordable through semiconductors is alive today as each generation of innovation builds upon the last to make our technology smaller, more efficient, more reliable and more affordable – opening new markets and making it possible for semiconductors to go into electronics everywhere. We think of this as Engineering Progress. It’s what we do and have been doing for decades. Learn more https://news.ti.com/index.cfm
