Applications Engineer | Audio

Texas Instruments Incorporated; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas Instruments Incorporated in Dallas seeks an engineering professional to own automotive Class-D audio amplifier issue resolution, drive opportunities for Auto external amplifier, Head Unit, Telematics, E-call & AVAS applications, and support customers designing TI audio amplifiers into their end products. This role involves on-site customer engagement and close collaboration across TI teams.

You will work with cross-functional teams across global sites, design and test engineers, marketing,

Responsibilities

• Own automotive Class-D audio amplifier technical issue resolving.
• Drive opportunity DWINs for Auto external amplifier, Head Unit, Telematics, E-call & AVAS applications.
• Support customers in designing TI audio amplifiers into end products via email, forum, calls, and on-site visits; review schematics and board layouts; duplicate customer system behavior for debugging.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across global sites including design, firmware, validation and test, systems and marketing, as well as with sales and application teams.
• Provide customer system level solutions addressing basic function, reliability, easy implementation and cost attractiveness.
• Understand customer system requirements and define common features/designs with systems engineers for new product definitions; provide data-driven recommendations.
• Build prototypes for new features from customer systems; own parameter designs and interface definitions.
• Assist with returns to recreate issues and provide recommendations; collaborate with field quality, design and sustaining engineers on FA and test coverage improvements.
• Design customer evaluation modules (EVMs), evaluate performance, specify GUI tools and drive production release.
• Conduct measurements using lab equipment to assess audio performance and power consumption; present data clearly to customers and TI teams.
• Create technical documents such as design guides, application notes, TI Designs, blogs, models and simulation tools to help customers select, design and debug products.

Job description

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. Workwith 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.