Systems Engineer Functional Safety - SR WVB

Texas Instruments; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas Instruments in Phoenix is seeking a Systems Engineer focused on functional safety within the Wide VIN Buck product line. You will translate customer requirements into technical specifications and collaborate with marketing, applications, and design teams to ensure roadmaps are safe, manufacturable, and cost-competitive.

The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and 3+ years of functional safety experience, with familiarity of ISO 26262/IEC 61508 and Power ICs

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering.
• 3+ years of relevant functional safety experience.
• Desire to work with automotive and industrial power ICs and standards.

Responsibilities

• Define functional safety requirements for Power Wide-VIN Buck regulators.
• Collaborate with marketing, applications, and design teams to align roadmaps.
• Support CA/PA processes and address customer issues.
• Interface with Legal, Sales, Quality and Product Safety Advisory Team as needed.

Skills

Functional safety

Systems engineering

Customer-facing

Project delivery

Analog/mixed-signal

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Change the world. Love your job. At TI, Systems Engineers work to identify ideal roadmap opportunities for a business and are responsible for defining new products and platforms based on market opportunity. To do this, they leverage strong technical knowledge of our existing portfolio, deep understanding of the technologies, standards and protocols within an industry or end equipment, and an ability to engage with customers and translate their requirements into technical specifications that will solve their problems. Systems engineers also partner closely with marketing and applications engineers, as well as design teams, to ensure our roadmap is both meeting customer and market requirements and is technically optimized and manufacturable at a price and cost point that makes sense for the business. Systems Engineers must be proficient at converting customer requirements to a specification (whether IC specification, or safety concept), as well as execute towards development timelines and on-time project delivery.

About the Product Line

APP's Wide VIN Buck (WVB) product line focuses in Automotive, Industrial and Datacenter power solutions. It's a portfolio in active reinvention: new packaging, new power architectures, and emerging process technologies like GaN; pushing the limits of power density and performance. You'll be a Systems Engineer focused on the Functional Safety aspect of our devices across the entire WVB Product Line.

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering
• 3+ years of relevant functional safety experience

Preferred qualifications:

• Relevant Functional Safety Certification (e.g. ISO 26262/IEC61508, TUV SUV)
• Experience understanding requirements for Power ICs within the Automotive and Industrial markets
• Strong understanding of analog/mixed-signal IC's and their application
• Experience promoting/marketing ICs and driving design wins by providing system solutions
• Strong customer facing skills
• Strong time management skills that enable on-time project delivery
• Ability to evaluate customer's system for Functional Safety requirements to determine the appropriate semiconductor safety level and safety features for our Power products
• Ability to quickly ramp to define functional safety diagnostics for present & next generation Power Wide-VIN Buck Regulators
• Ramp quickly to enable hardware and/or software safety architecture requirements for our buck regulators
• Ability to collaborate on functional safety development needs including training materials and reference designs
• Support functional safety related CA/PA (Correct Action/Preventive Action) to address customer issues, returns and questions
• Interpret functional safety standards (e.g. IEC 61508/ISO 26262) from a semiconductor component perspective taking into account system applications (specifically buck regulators)
• Familiar with functional safety standards such as IEC 61508 and ISO 26262 and quickly ramp-up with TI's product safety requirements (QSS 024-002)
• Ability to work independently to take and/or influence appropriate actions, including at management level, when potential functional safety related execution challenges and/or other issues arise
• Ability to interface with customers and other internal support functions such as Legal, Sales, Marketing, Quality and Product Safety Advisory Team
• Ability to influence appropriate technically driven decisions, including sensitivity and ability to maintain TI's public image
• Thorough attention to detail and above reproach ethics
• Ability to establish strong relationships with key stakeholders critical to success, both internally and externally
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work in teams and collaborate effectively with people in different functions
• Ability to take the initiative and drive for results