Texas Instruments

Makes analog and embedded chips in its own plants

Applications Engineer - Audio

Solution EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeDallas, TX, USANo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

A Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related degree is required.
At least 2 years of related engineering experience is required.
A strong sense of responsibility for owning, driving, and resolving customer issues is required.
Proficiency with schematic and layout tools such as Altium Designer is required.
Knowledge of analog and basic mixed-signal chains is required.
Ability to handle lab instruments, including oscilloscopes, audio analyzers, and signal generators, and analyze data is required.

Responsibilities

Own resolution of technical issues involving automotive Class-D audio amplifiers and drive design wins for automotive external amplifier, head unit, telematics, e-call, and AVAS applications.
Support customers integrating audio amplifiers into end products by answering questions, debugging issues through email, forums, calls, and on-site visits, reviewing schematics and board layouts, reproducing customer system behavior internally, and collaborating with cross-functional teams on solutions or workarounds.
Visit customer sites as needed to help customers design and debug systems using the company’s devices.
Collaborate with global cross-functional teams, including product-line design engineers, firmware engineers, validation and test teams, systems and marketing teams, and sales and application teams, to execute customer projects through production.
Train field application engineers on product fundamentals and how to sell and use products.
Provide customer system-level solutions addressing application requirements, including basic functionality, reliability, ease of implementation, and cost.
Understand customer system-level requirements and work with systems and design teams to define common customer features and designs, address development challenges for new product definitions, and provide data-driven product recommendations.
Build prototypes for new customer system-level features; own key parameter design, customer interface design including registers and hardware pins, and value proposition learning and definition.
Support customer product returns by recreating issues and recommending improvements, collaborating with field quality, design, and sustaining engineers on failure-analysis processes and test coverage.
Design customer evaluation modules, evaluate their performance and functionality, specify software graphical user-interface tools for each module, and drive each module and its software through production release.
Use laboratory equipment to measure audio performance, power consumption, and other performance parameters; organize and present collected data for customers and internal personnel.
Create technical documents and tools, including design guides, application notes, TI Designs, blogs, models, and simulation tools, to help customers select, design in, and debug products.

Desired Qualifications

Experience with microcontroller-related hardware and software, ability to write C code, or familiarity with artificial-intelligence tools for software implementation is preferred.
Experience with amplifier, analog-to-digital converter, digital-to-analog converter, phase-locked loop, or DC-to-DC converter applications is preferred.
Knowledge of electromagnetic compatibility (conducted emissions and radiated emissions), key board parameter extraction, and simulation capability is preferred.
Experience playing or making music is preferred.

Responsibilities:

This role will own automotive Class-D audio amplifier technical issue resolving, also responsible of driving opportunity DWINs for Auto external amplifier, Head Unit, Telematics, E-call & AVAS applications.
Supporting customers design our audio amplifiers into their end product. This involves answering questions and helping debug customer issues via email, forum, calls, and on-site visits, reviewing customer schematics and board layouts, attempting to duplicate customer system behavior within TI for better debug, drive collaboration with cross-function team to seek for solution/workaround. Specific on-site time will be required to help customers design and debug their systems using our devices.
This role involves collaboration with cross-functional team across global sites, including product line inside - design engineers, firmware engineers, validation and test team, system and marketing team, also with sales & application team on customer project smooth execution to production, and training FAEs on products basic knowledges and how to sell/use.
Provide customer system level solutions to address application requirements including basic function, reliability & easier, cost attractive implementation.
Fully understand customer’s system level requirements. Work with systems and designs to define common customer features/designs and development challenges for new product definition, provide data driven product recommendations.
Build prototype for new feature from customer system level, own key parameter design and customer interface(register, HW pins) design, own value proposition learning and definition.
Support customer returns to recreate issue and provide recommendations, collaboration with field quality engineer, design team and sustaining engineer for FA process and test coverage improvements.
Designing customer evaluation modules (EVMs), evaluating EVM performance and functionality, specifying software graphical user interface tools to work with each EVM, and driving each EVM and accompanying software through to production release.
Using lab equipment to make measurements related to audio performance, power consumption, and other performance parameters, organizing and presenting the data collected so as to be understandable by customers and TI internal personnel.
Create technical documents(design guides, application notes, TI Designs, blogs, models, simulation tools, etc.) that enables customers to effectively select, design in and debug products.

Minimum requirements

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or related degree
2 + years related Engineering experiences including:
- Strong responsible attitude to own and drive/resolve customer issues
- Master schematic/layout tools like Altium Designer, etc.
- Solid analog and basic mixed signal chain knowledge
- Solid lab instrument handling capability: oscilloscope, AP, signal generator and data analysis handling capability

Preferred qualifications

Has MCU related HW & software experience, able to write C code or familiar with AI tools for SW implementation.
Experience with Amplifier/ADC/DAC/PLL/DC-DC converter application is a plus.
EMC (CE and RE) handling knowledge & key board parameter distraction, simulation capability is a plus
Experience of playing music or making music is a plus.

About the Company

Texas Instruments

Makes analog and embedded chips in its own plants

Texas Instruments designs and makes analog and embedded processing chips, the basic parts inside cars, factory equipment, data centers, and consumer electronics, and it sells one of the broadest chip catalogs in the industry. In 1958, its engineer Jack Kilby built the first integrated circuit, the building block of modern electronics, and later won a Nobel Prize for it. Its analog chips regulate power and convert signals such as sound and heat into data, while its microcontrollers act as small built-in computers, and TI earns money selling both to device makers. It also makes the graphing calculators many students use in math class. Texas Instruments was founded in 1930 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: Dallas, TX
Founded: 1930

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