Change the world. Love your job.
Smart Manufacturing and Automation (SMA) at Texas Instruments is looking for a Workflow Automation Engineer who can fundamentally change how quality and manufacturing operations run. This role sits at the intersection of deep process understanding and sophisticated software engineering — you will work directly with operational teams to identify inefficiencies, design automated solutions, and build systems that scale across the semiconductor product lifecycle, from fab operations to customer delivery.
This role is not about automating tasks in isolation. It involves solving problems in complex operational environments, earn the trust of subject matter experts, and drive and implement workflow automation across systems.
About You
You are a strong software engineer energized by ambiguity. You can walk into a room with process engineers and quality specialists, ask the right questions, and leave with a clear picture of what needs to be built. You don’t just write code — you understand the business problem deeply enough to know when a simpler solution beats a clever one.
You are self-directed. You find automation opportunities others miss, propose solutions before anyone asks, and take ownership of outcomes from design through deployment. You stay current with emerging technologies — including agentic frameworks and AI tooling — not because it’s trendy, but because you know how to apply them where they genuinely move the needle.
What You’ll Do
Understand and Automate
- Engage directly with operational and engineering stakeholders to understand, map, and automate complex business processes — translating domain expertise into reliable, scalable software
- Analyze existing workflows across manufacturing and quality operations to identify automation opportunities with measurable impact on productivity, cycle time, and decision quality
- Design and implement end-to-end automated workflow solutions that reduce manual effort and increase operational consistency
Build with Engineering Excellence
- Build scalable, maintainable software with clean architecture, disciplined testing, and rigorous version control practices
- Design and implement agentic automation solutions leveraging emerging frameworks such as Model Context Protocol (MCP) and agent-to-agent (A2A) protocols to create intelligent, composable workflow systems
- Apply strong software engineering fundamentals to ensure solutions are robust, extensible, and production-grade
Lead and Elevate
- Define and drive technical strategy for workflow automation — setting engineering standards and identifying platform-level opportunities that compound impact over time
- Mentor engineers and elevate team capability through technical guidance, code reviews, and knowledge sharing
- Proactively identify and self-initiate improvements beyond assigned scope, bringing a continuous improvement mindset to everything you build
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, ECE, Electrical Engineering, or related field
- 5 years of software engineering experience
- Proficiency in Python and SQL for automation, data processing, and complex database interactions
- Experience with git and modern software development practices including code reviews, testing, and CI/CD
Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools as a productivity accelerator
Preferred Qualifications:
- Masters degree
- Demonstrated ability to understand complex engineering or business processes and translate them into automated, production-grade solutions
- Strong foundation in data structures and algorithms
- Experience in semiconductor manufacturing or familiarity with fab operations, quality systems, or product lifecycle processes
- Familiarity with quality engineering concepts such as defect analysis, yield management, reliability, or corrective action workflows
- Experience with MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems), lab data systems, or semiconductor equipment data interfaces
- Proven track record of successfully automating multi-step engineering or business workflows at enterprise scale
- Hands-on experience with agentic frameworks, MCP, A2A, or LLM integration in production systems
- Excellent communication skills for engaging technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels
- 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. Please find our country-specific benefits here
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, ECE, Electrical Engineering, or related field
- 5 years of software engineering experience
- Proficiency in Python and SQL for automation, data processing, and complex database interactions
- Experience with git and modern software development practices including code reviews, testing, and CI/CD
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools as a productivity accelerator
Texas Instruments Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Texas Instruments and has not been reviewed or approved by Texas Instruments.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Profit sharing and annual bonuses are portrayed as a meaningful, formula-linked upside that can materially lift total earnings in strong years. An employee stock purchase plan with a discount further reinforces recurring, wealth-building incentives.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) match is described as a stable core benefit, with some references to additional legacy employer contributions and even pension-like elements for certain cohorts. This framing positions long-term savings support as a notable part of the overall rewards package.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical coverage is depicted as broadly comprehensive, with preventive care and access to HSA/FSA features cited as value-adds. Company-seeded HSA contributions are repeatedly characterized as an important offset to the plan design for those enrolled.
Texas Instruments Insights
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
