Career Accelerator Program - Test Engineer

About the role

In your first year with TI, you will participate in the Career Accelerator Program (CAP), which provides professional and technical training and resources to accelerate your ramp into TI and set you up for long-term career success. Within this program, we offer function-specific technical training and on-the-job learning opportunities that encourage you to solve problems through a variety of hands-on, meaningful experiences from your very first day on the job.

Experience how the latest innovative technologies are developed, built, and optimized as a product, test, or validation engineer. Work with TI teams, customers, and external partners around the world to design, build, qualify, and support our industry-leading analog and embedded processing products.

As a product, test, and validation engineer, you play a vital role in assuring the quality and performance of TI's innovative IC products. From test software and hardware development, product debugging, and test optimization, you help ensure our products are consistently competitive and leading in the market. In each of these roles, you'll dive deeper into manufacturing, quality, design verification, or validation engineering.

In this role, you'll support the development and implementation of strategies that achieve profitability targets on assigned TI product lines through new product development, cost reduction, capacity expansion, and yield enhancement projects. You'll serve as the primary point of contact for all operational aspects related to your assigned product portfolio, resolve customer quality and application issues, and facilitate cross-functional teams for problem-solving. You'll also take a leadership role to establish relationships with key contacts in TI wafer fabrication and assembly manufacturing sites to ensure strong communication and effective problem-solving.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement strategies for profitability on assigned product lines through new product development, cost reduction, capacity expansion, and yield enhancement.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for operational aspects of assigned product portfolios.
• Resolve customer quality and application issues.
• Facilitate cross-functional teams for problem-solving.
• Establish relationships with key contacts in TI wafer fabrication and assembly sites.
• Engage in test software and hardware development, product debugging, and test optimization.
• Gain exposure to product, test, and validation engineering through formal learning, projects, and on-the-job development.

Concepts and Skills

Product Engineering Concepts

• Data analysis knowledge
• Manufacturing systems knowledge
• Product qualification and reliability tests and their implications
• Device failure verification

Test Engineering Concepts

• Knowledge of basic test concepts
• Using automated test equipment (tester, tester hardware and software interaction)
• Hardware design and software development
• Verifying capability and releasing to manufacturing
• Bench setup – verification/characterization

Validation Engineering Concepts

• Validation concepts knowledge
• Using bench setups
• Hardware design and software development
• Device debug

Requirements

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, or related field
• Cumulative 3.0/4.0 GPA or higher

Preferred Qualifications:

• Basic understanding of schematics, layouts, and digital components
• Knowledge and understanding of analog circuitry (e.g., op-amps, DC/DC power, data converters, sensing)
• Programming skills in C/C++ (LabView recommended)
• Ability to establish strong relationships with key stakeholders, both internally and externally
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to quickly ramp on new systems and processes
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work in teams and collaborate effectively with people in different functions
• Ability to take the initiative and drive for results
• Strong time management skills that enable on-time project delivery

About Us

Why TI? 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 push innovation forward and make TI stronger. We value each and every voice and look forward to hearing yours.

Texas Instruments Incorporated (Nasdaq: TXN) is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures, and sells analog and embedded processing chips for markets such as industrial, automotive, data center, personal electronics, and communications equipment. At our core, we have a passion to create a better world by making electronics more affordable through semiconductors. This passion is alive today as each generation of innovation builds upon the last to make our technology more reliable, affordable, and lower power, enabling semiconductors to go into electronics everywhere.