Lead Test Engineer

Texas Instruments; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas Instruments in Wisconsin is seeking Test Engineers to work on multiphase buck controllers and high-density power stages. You will collaborate with design, test, systems and application engineers to ensure our power solutions meet customer and market requirements while optimizing costs.

Responsibilities include test planning, silicon debugging on ATE, yield analysis, and working with FW to implement firmware fixes. This role demands hands-on testing and close collaboration with customers.

Responsibilities

• Work with the design team to understand design specifications and system challenges.
• Generate test plans, create tests and CHAR programs, and design ATE interfaces.
• Debug silicon on ATE and correlate results with bench data.
• Analyze silicon results and support failure analysis tasks.
• Perform statistics on yield fallout; debug and fix yield issues, optimize test time.
• Coordinate with production to release products to volume production.
• Define and implement test strategy for multiphase controllers and power stages.
• Silicon qualification and development of the qual program.
• Comprehensive device debugging, validation and failure analysis.
• Drive robust, cost-effective test solutions and ensure product quality.
• Collaborate with FW team to support customer needs and implement firmware fixes.
• Engage with customers with application engineers to explain devices and tweaks.

Job description

Change the world. Love your job.

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. In TI’s Power Products,we’re developing breakthrough technology to power the world’s future innovations as well.Put your talent to work with us – change the world, love your job!

Why Multiphase Processor Power (MPP):

Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and data centers are just a few of the trends driving the need for high-current multiphase switching power in the Enterprise market.The Multiphase Processor Power product line is focused on bringing to market the multiphase controllers and Smart Power Stage (driver plus power FETs with integrated sensing) solutions for enterprise computing and other ASICs that are power hungry and require very high currents (can be 1000A+). The MPP team actively collaborates with TI’s advanced technology, packaging and research and development teams to deliver the highest power density solutions for the power level.

About the job

At TI, Test Engineers leverage strong technical knowledge working hands-on to bring differentiated power solutions to our customers globally. Test Engineers also partner closely with Design, Test, Systems and Application engineers to ensure our power solutions are both meeting customer and market requirements and are cost-wise optimized. The MPP product line is working on complex multiphase buck controllers and the world’s breakthrough technology to develop the high-power density power stages.

About the role and team:

• Work with the design team to understand design specifications and system challenges
• Generate test plan, create test and char program, design ATE hardware interface boards
• Debug characterizing silicon on ATE, and correlate results with bench data
• Analyze silicon results, supporting failure analysis tasks
• Perform statistical analysis of yield fallout, debug and fix yield issues; optimize test time
• Work with the production team to release products to volume production
• Test strategy definition and implementation for multiphase controller and power stage devices
• Silicon qualification, including the qual program development
• Comprehensive device debugging, design validation, and failure analysis
• Drive for robust and cost-effective test solutions while being accountable for product quality
• Work with the design and Firmwareteam to support customer needs, implement custom features in FW. Close collaboration with FW and validation teams to understand the device issues and bugs and find the FW level workaround for the fix.
• Engaging with customers 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.