Senior Silicon Validation Engineer

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. Put your talent to work with us – change the world, love your job! 

Who are we and what do we do?

The advanced circuits and power solution business is known for delivering industry leading custom IC system solutions including display and touch power products, charger power products, camera PMICs, power path devices, sensing devices and high-performance communication interface products. Our products integrate precision signal-chain and highly efficient power components in ultra-small form factors that enable TI’s best-in-class customer to translate their ideas to high value products that revolutionize the personal electronics market. 

In this team, you will get to work with, and learn from incredibly talented technical leaders, who have influenced TI technology, productivity and way of working in a creative and impactful way. You will get to directly interact with one of TI’s valued and high-volume customers, by way of intense technical reviews and architecture discussions! 

By enabling designs that are highly impactful to TI revenue and working with a critical customer on a versatile set of products, you will find yourself on an accelerated career path. 

 

About the job 

If you are looking to join an ingenious, vigorous & ambitious team that consistently delivers groundbreaking technologies into the custom mobile electronics world, here is an opportunity for you!   

Senior Silicon Validation Engineer

Location: Bangalore, India

What will you be doing in this role?

• Develop validation board, schematics and layout, matching it with customer use-case & applications. The validation boards include - modularization of the Val board for generic flow, solving mixed-signal challenges, scalability of HW for many setups and most importantly closeness to the customer EVMs. 
• Build, design, and document the full validation plan. The validation plan needs a detailed understanding of not only the device but also the system environment.
• Define the Validation Strategy in terms of Hardware, Software and Instrumentation
• Building Validation test cases and implementing them on different scripting languages. (i.e. Python, Test stand, lab view etc)
• Define, build the automation strategies and implement them through methodology, circuit, script and hardware innovations.   
• Bring the device on the bench; Perform system level and parametric test on the bench with a strong break-the-part mentality.
• Close collaboration with system and design teams to understand the device issues and bugs and find the SW-level workaround for the fix.
• Debug device and setup-related issues and drive the issue to closure independently.
• Perform correlation study between ATE and bench board char results. 

• Engaging on customer issues and fixes with application engineers, to help them understand the device better, help to fix the issues and provide modifications if any tweaks are needed. This is done in collaboration with Application engineers. 

Basic Requirements (Must-Haves)

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field of study

• 3+ years of silicon validation experience for mixed signal devices.

Preferred Skills & "Good to Have" (Innovation & Automation)

• Demonstrates hardware debugging skills, schematic and PCB layout design.
• Excellent time management; Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in simulating and designing inverters and/or DCDC converters
• Expertise in tools e.g. Simplis, Matlab, Altium, PSPICE. 
• Proficient in different scripting languages. (i.e. Python, Test stand, lab view etc)
• Schematic generation and layout performed in Altium
• Physical layout management, signal grounding and routing tradeoffs, optimization
• Must budget time, manage schedule and complete complex design tasks on time
• Must have depth of experience and meticulous approach to ensure high-quality results
• Must account for limitations of system-level specifications, testability, and debug

• Must work well with colleagues and customers to foster a highly creative, interesting, productive, and fun working environment.