Lead Analog Ic Designer - Switching Converters jobs at Texas Instruments in India, Bengaluru

Job Description:

We are seeking engineers with experience in system and device level functional safety concepts and implementations. This position will be a hands-on role in analysing Functional Safety concepts and requirements in existing and next generation devices offered by HSD TI Analog team.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for functional safety development of High Speed Digital device Hardware and Firmware;
• Responsible for establishing a device development that meets functional safety regulations, identifying, planning, organizing, tracking and recording all functional safety work matters in the product development cycle;
• Plan and organize the safety assessment and audit, analysis and review of all functional safety products, organize and guide the DFMEA, FMA/FTA, FMEDA activities, etc.;
• Based on functional safety, participate in the design of software and hardware to ensure that product functional safety development meets regulatory requirements;
• Responsible for maintaining functional safety processes, and ensuring compliance with functional safety standards during product development;
• Organize the verification and confirmation of functional safety objectives and create and analyse functional safety status reports;
• Participate in functional safety assessment of customers and suppliers.
• Developing and maintaining the project safety plan including tailoring of safety lifecycle to project specific activities
• Collaborating with project leader & program manager to assure the integration of safety activities within the overall project plan
• Planning, coordination and tracking of all activities encompassed in project safety plan across all phases of the project
• Scheduling functional safety confirmation measures (review, audit and assessment) to the level of independence specified in the project safety plan.
• Leading and coordinating with all contributors on creation of functional safety project deliverables and executing safety analysis (FMEDA, FMEA, FTA, DFA)
• Conducting safety analyses, both quantitative and qualitative, fault campaigns on automotive hardware designs and identify areas of improvement.
• Working with vendors and partners (if required) to ensure functional safety requirements are fulfilled by the components that they provide
• Regular reporting to project team and central functional safety function by creating project safety dashboard and laying escalation paths to foresee and avoid delays
• Interfacing with customers on functional safety project life-cycle and architecture definition and to support System level safety assessments

Minimum Requirements:

• 5-10 years relevant industry experience in software development on embedded devices.
• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Electronics/Electrical/Computer Science

Skills needed:

• Education: Bachelor degree or above;
• Professional: automotive electronic control and other related professional;
• 5+ years Automotive experience and familiarity with Safety work products, experience with Functional Safety Hardware and/or Software development in semiconductor industry meeting IS0 26262/ IEC 61508 standards - Fully participated with key contribution in safety aspect in at least one automotive electronic and electrical project that meets ISO26262:
  • Proficient in ISO26262 standard, good at FMEA/FMA, FMEDA, HARA, DFA, Co-existence analysis methods
  • Familiar with software and hardware development and testing process of automotive electronic and electrical products;
  • Familiar with functional safety development process and functional safety related tools;
  • Functional safety engineer qualification is preferred, Automotive SPICE development process is preferred.
• Prior automotive experience in ADAS and self-driving systems preferred.
• System level Functional safety analysis experience on Hardware/Software components integration preferred
• SoC/IP integration or verification with good understanding of SoC Architecture and IP design experience preferred
• Requirements Management Tools and establishing traceability for functional safety requirements e.g. DOORS, etc.
• Familiarity with Failure Modes and Effect Analysis (FMEA) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) is required experience using tools to perform FMEA, FTA preferred
• Familiarity with hardware failure rate calculation (FMEDA) experience using Siemens 29500 and/or IEC 62380 preferred

As a Software Engineer, you'll become a key contributor, where your skills and input make a big difference. In this role, you'll design embedded software and development tools that will be used to test products. You'll write code that tells chips how to operate in revolutionary new ways. And, you'll work closely with business partners and customers, as well as TI's marketing, systems and applications engineering teams, to collaborate and solve business problems.

Minimum Requirements:

• 5+ years of relative experience
• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, or related field
• Strong Embedded firmware skills and experience
• Strong Assembly, C and C++ programming skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of software engineering processes and the full software development lifecycle
• Demonstrated strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work in teams and collaborate effectively with people in different functions
• Strong time management skills that enable on-time project delivery
• Demonstrated ability to build strong, influential relationships
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment
• Ability to take the initiative and drive for results

Responsibilities may include:

• Research and create new product definitions, including developing business case proposals, product strategies and taking products to RTM
• Analyze key end-equipment in automotive, industrial, consumer and computing spaces to identify future trends, identifying opportunities for improving performance and adding value to these systems
• Assess and negotiate IC development tradeoffs with design team and customers
• Be the technical expert, responsible for product ramp up for the customer
• Silicon system evaluation (HW, SW if needed) and related documentation
• Application support for newly introduced and existing products
• Support and train central applications engineering and sales organizations on new/existing products
• Relentlessly drive new design wins for new and existing products
• Trouble-shoot customer application issues by lab testing, schematic analysis and other methods, as necessary
• Bring quick resolution to customer problems by interfacing across different functional groups such as design, product, test, packaging, marketing and sales
• Assist with generating the revenue plan for the organization
• Definition of successful new products at TI, system evaluation and taking the products to RTM
• Create technical literature such as datasheets, application notes, user's guides, EVMs, spice models, SCMs etc.
• Revenue growth through adoption of new and existing products
• Build relationships with customers/field teams by closely interacting with them to identify and solve system problems with TI silicon
• Contribute to the short and long term product strategy and roadmap

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering
• 5+ years of relevant experience
• 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
• Familiarity with lab equipment
• System level circuit modeling with EDA tools, SPICE, Matlab

Preferred qualifications:

• Ability to establish strong relationships with key stakeholders critical to success, both internally and externally
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to quickly ramp on new systems and processes
• 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
• Strong time management skills that enable on-time project delivery

Job Description:

As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for delivering high quality software that complies with coding standard and meet technical requirements that scales across RTOS on multiple TI SOCs. The work will deal with drivers development, Boot loaders, RTOS integration, Memory and Performance optimizations, SDK integration and delivery. You will be part of team which will be solving problems across wide range of domains. Your role demands you to work across the lifecycle of a software products from requirement gathering, Design, coding and testing.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop simple, scalable and high-performance drivers, middleware, compliance, SDK Integration and Customer support.
• Can debug device drivers, applications of self-written or customer written software
• Analyzes and writes test and procedures for the components developed.
• Develop test automation software and test scripts, performing SW optimization for memory & performance.
• Develop application specific software demos and examples related to end equipment which enables to benchmark TI processor capability and help customer to get started on their product development.
• Able to look at software deliverables from end user point of view – ease of use, well documented code, design documents. Participate in customer discussion and understand their requirements and implement it on TI software.

Minimum Requirements:

• 2-5 Years industry experience in software development on embedded devices.
• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications:

• Programming experience in Embedded C and Embedded C++.
• Experience with bare-metal drivers and RTOS based Applications
• Good understanding of CPU and SOC architecture for MCUs and MPUs
• Experience in hands-on development and troubleshooting on embedded systems with tools like compilers, debuggers and SDKs
• Proficiency debugging embedded software systems. Familiarity with UARTs, SPI, I2C, JTAG, and oscilloscopes
• RTOS application level development and Python or Perl scripting experience and methods to optimize SW development and testing activities
• Familiarity with software tools which is used to configure SW, Drivers and application
• Strong Communication, documentation and writing skills.
• Concept of Continuous Integration using Jenkins and GIT

In this role, responsibilities may include:

• Lead an Analog IC design team with product ownership and responsibility from definition to release to manufacturing
• Direct, guide and participate in activities of a research or technical design function responsible for designing, developing, modifying and evaluating electronic parts, components, integrated circuits for a variety of applications
• Make assignments for team members, providing design guidance as needed, developing schedules and monitoring progress throughout the project
• Evaluate intermediate and final results of projects during the design phase and during silicon evaluation, to ensure accomplishment of technical objectives
• Work with and provide guidance to physical designers and monitors the progress of IC layout
• Collaborate with Design Verification teams during the pre-PG phase of a project to ensure completion of all technical tasks before PG
• Work with systems engineers, application engineers and marketing to prepare product briefs, datasheets, application notes and assisting in the definition of the product to meet customer needs as well as contributing to roadmap formulation and new concept creation
• Collaborate with validation, product engineering and test engineering teams to enable successful transfer to production
• Interface and lead discussions with the customer and/or TI field sales/field applications teams to understand customer designs, problems and support as required
• Actively participate in hiring, developing and evaluating personnel to ensure efficient operation of the organization and growth of the individuals into leader

Basic Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor's/master’s degree in ECE/EE/Instrumentation/Communication
• 5+ years of analog & mixed signal IC Design
• Thorough familiarity with high-speed, high-resolution analog-to-digital (ADC) or digital-to-analog (DAC) data converter design techniques and Switched Capacitor Circuits
• Strong competency in transistor level design and implementation of various Analog functions, small signal analysis and various frequency compensation techniques.
• Experience in designing high performance blocks like band-gap references, PLLs, LDOs, I/O, Operational Amplifiers, comparators, oscillators etc.
• Expertise in tools e.g. Spectre, Virtuoso and understanding of verification flows & tools.
• Experience working with layout team on block level designs to ensure signal-chain performance.
• Experience with Silicon validation and debug and track record ofsuccessfully taking designs to production
• Top-level integration, Block-level verification across PVT, Statistical Mismatch, Post-layout parasitic extraction and simulation
• Understanding of chip level ESD/LU, EM, IO and reliability requirements.
• Good mentoring, communication, presentation skills and teamwork

Job Expectations and Primary responsibilities:

• Full product ownership and responsibility from definition till release to production
• Comprehensive understanding of system-level behavior and ability to translate customer requirements into precise IC specifications are essential. Consider system-level behavior, testability, debug capabilities, characterization, production, and yield targets during the IC design phase.
• Direct, guide and lead activities of a research/Innovation to develop highly differentiated products
• Make assignments for team members, providing design guidance as needed, developing schedules and monitoring progress throughout the project
• Work across domains viz Digital Designers, Software engineers, layout, design verification, validation and test engineers.
• Evaluate intermediate and final results of projects during the design phase and during silicon evaluation, to ensure accomplishment of technical objectives
• Collaborate with Design Verification teams during the pre-PG phase of a project to ensure completion of all technical tasks before PG
• Work with systems engineers, application engineers and marketing to prepare product briefs, datasheets, application notes and assisting in the definition of the product to meet customer needs as well as contributing to roadmap formulation and new concept creation
• Collaborate with validation, product engineering and test engineering teams to enable successful transfer to production
• Interface and lead discussions with the customer and/or TI field sales/field applications teams to understand customer designs, problems and support as required
• Actively participate in hiring, developing and evaluating personnel to ensure efficient operation of the organization and growth of the individuals into leader

Design and Development:

- Lead the design and development of high-efficiency switching converter designs.

- Guide the package and pinout selections for optimum power delivery and reliability

- Ensure designs meet specified performance, quality, and reliability standards.

2. Innovation and Continuous Improvement:

- Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in analog design and audio technology.

- Continuously improve design processes and methodologies.

3. Collaboration and Communication:

- Communicate project status, challenges, and solutions to senior management and stakeholders.

- Interface with customers and partners as needed to understand requirements and provide technical support

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering
• 4+ years of relevant experience

Preferred qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical engineering or a related field.
• 4+ years of experience in Analog circuit design, with a focus on switching converters, high voltage or high-power designs
• Strong knowledge of Analog design principles, high efficiency switching circuit designs and reliability.
• Proficiency with EDA tools for schematic capture, and simulation.
• Expertise in floorplan and layout reviews
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience in leading full chip activity like circuit block spec definition, top-level simulations, design verification and design for test.
• Good grasp of basic digital design fundamentals, Understanding of DV flows & tools.
• Good mentoring, communication, presentation skills and teamwork.

Texas Instruments is seeking an Analog Design Manager. In this role, you will direct and guide the activities of a research or technical design function responsible for designing, developing, modifying and evaluating analog and mixed signal electronic parts, components or integrated circuitry for electronic equipment and other hardware systems. You may also evaluate final results of research and development projects to assure accomplishment of technical objectives. In addition, job functions include preparing and presenting reports outlining the outcome of technical projects and making recommendations for actions necessary to achieve desired results. As an Analog Design Manager, you may also select, develop, and evaluate personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.

Minimum requirements:

• Minimum education (i.e., bachelor's degree in electrical engineering)
• Minimum of 15 years of experience

Preferred qualifications:

• Ability to establish strong relationships with key stakeholders critical to success, both internally and externally
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to quickly ramp on new systems and processes
• 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
• Strong time management skills that enable on-time project delivery