Workflow Automation Engineer | GenAI Focused

About the role

Smart Manufacturing and Automation (SMA) at Texas Instruments is seeking a Workflow Automation Engineer to fundamentally transform how quality and manufacturing operations function. This role bridges deep process understanding with sophisticated software engineering, working closely with operational teams to identify inefficiencies, design automated solutions, and build scalable systems across the semiconductor product lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• 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, ensuring scalable, maintainable software with clean architecture, disciplined testing, and rigorous version control practices.
• Apply strong software engineering fundamentals to ensure solutions are robust, extensible, and production-grade.
• 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.

Qualifications

• 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; experience with git and modern software development practices; familiarity with AI-assisted development tools.
• Preferred Qualifications: Masters degree; demonstrated ability to understand complex engineering or business processes; 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.

Benefits

Texas Instruments offers 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.

About Texas Instruments

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, more affordable, and lower power, making it possible for semiconductors to go into electronics everywhere.

About the Team

TI does not make recruiting or hiring decisions based on citizenship, immigration status, or national origin. However, if TI determines that information access or export control restrictions based upon applicable laws and regulations would prohibit you from working in this position without first obtaining an export license, TI expressly reserves the right not to seek such a license for you and either offer you a different position that does not require an export license or decline to move forward with your employment.