Test Manager jobs at Texas Instruments in United States, Dallas

Texas Instruments is seeking a High Voltage Packaging Engineering Manager. In this role, you will direct development of new package/container requirements and oversee the quality of existing packages/containers for all product groups. You may also develop designs to meet requirements needed for the nature of the product, transportation methods, cost considerations, legal requirements, and package content characteristics. You will consider the need for resistance to external variables such as temperature variations, light, moisture, and corrosive chemicals. You may oversee the coordination of activities at contract packaging and labeling sites. An additional job function includes overseeing exterior package design to ensure proper product identification, consumer appeal, printing appearance, and production techniques. The role requires current knowledge of hazards and safety protocols for safe handling, transportation, and use of products. As a High Voltage Packaging Engineering Manager, you may also select, develop and evaluate personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.

Responsibilities of the team may include:

• Define, design, develop and scale to volume production high voltage (200-3300V) packages and high-power modules for the Industrial, Automotive, Renewable and Telecom markets
• Understand market trends & end equipment system requirements and build these into competitive forward-looking package and module roadmaps
• Define solutions across various HV technologies like GaN, SiC, IGBT and Isolation Technologies and validate these using CFD, thermomechanical and electrical parasitic extraction tools
• Develop new process flows/technologies necessary to create 1^starticle prototype and also scale to high volume manufacturing
• Outline the package reliability plans, complete testing, summarize failure modes and provide solutions to address issues
• Build upon current knowledge of the material supplier landscape (mold compounds, die attach, substrates) for high voltage applications as well as process / equipment integration and must work with various suppliers to provide solutions to meet TI roadmaps
• Work collaboratively across worldwide cross functional teams and capable of accelerating development cycles and ensuring rapid time-to market for new products

Minimum requirements:

• Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Electrical Engineering or related engineering degree
• 10 + years of experience and proven track record of innovation in High Voltage (200V-3300V must) and high power (5KW – 300KW) semiconductor packaging across GaN / SIC / IGBT, Super Junction MOSFET technologies
• Experience as a Manager for high voltage package and power module design, materials, equipment, and assembly flow integration (molded packages like TOLT, TOLG, Q-DPAK DIP, SIP and case modules)
• Strong knowledge of Silicon / GaN / SiC-package interaction and hands on experience with stress, thermal and electrical modeling analysis and tools

Preferred qualifications:

• Excellent communication skills and ability to work with internal and external customers to define and develop roadmaps
• Prior experience scaling HV packages and modules from concept to high volume manufacturing
• Good understanding of clip attach, flip chip packaging and overview of wafer bumping processes
• Knowledge of magnetics and high power density enterprise power modules (6V – 48V) is a plus
• Strong knowledge of HV Bill of Materials (Mold compounds, Die Attach, DBC substrates, etc.)
• Good understanding of industry & subcon HV packaging capabilities & roadmaps
• Overview of high voltage discrete and power modules reliability and qualification requirements, proven ability to define and drive reliability and qualification strategies in alignment with these standards and problem solving
• Track record of presenting at international conferences or symposiums related to power electronics, semiconductor packaging, or high-voltage technologies

About the job

Developing new process platforms with step-function improvements in performance and cost

Extending roadmap process technologies with new features, models and reduced costs

Creating innovative, breakthrough technologies for new markets and new products

Responsibilities:

• Partnering with technologists to ensure robust characterization solutions are available for emerging and pathfinding technologies with novel components
• Defining test structures, architecting test solutions, and innovating new test capabilities to enable accurate and robust characterization data for technology assessment and SPICE Models across a broad range of technologies and component types
• Partnering with design teams to align critical FoM specifications to characterization data and SPICE model simulations
• Driving best practices & methodologies for optimal test structure design and characterization methods to ensure high-performance technology entitlement
• Characterizing all component types across a wide range of process, bias, temperature, and frequency
• Building infrastructure to enable efficient characterization to support rapid learning cycle technology development

Minimum requirements

• Master's in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Engineering Physics or related with 5 years of semiconductor experience in test & measurements
• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Engineering Physics or related with 3 years of semiconductor experience in test & measurements

Preferred qualifications:

• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Engineering Physics or related
• Expertise in testing fundamentals, experience with semi-automated and automated characterization methods, tools, and equipment
• Understanding of semiconductor device physics, and programming experience
• Experience in development of test systems for new capability requirements and operational efficiency as well as working knowledge of SPICE models for components
• Experience and proficiency in the following areas is also preferred: basic programming experience with MATLAB, Labview, C, SPECS, KTE (Keithley), and Unix Shell; and an aptitude for running various software scripts and utilities
• Strong verbal and written communication 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
• Working well in a team environment is imperative in this role
• Demonstrated ability to build strong, influential relationships
• Good listener and excellent verbal and written communication skills

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

Minimum requirements:

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

In your first year with TI, you will participate in the Career Accelerator Program (CAP), which provides professional and technical training and resources to accelerate your ramp into TI and set you up for long-term career success. Within this program, we also offer function-specific technical training and on-the-job learning opportunities that will encourage you to solve problems through a variety of hands-on, meaningful experiences from your very first day on the job.

From test software and hardware development, product debugging and test optimization – you help ensure our products are consistently competitive and leading in the market. In each of these roles you'll dive deeper into manufacturing, quality, design verification or validation engineering.

In this role, you'll support the development and implementation of strategies that achieve profitability targets on assigned TI product lines through new product development, cost reduction, capacity expansion and yield enhancement projects. You'll serve as the primary point of contact for all operational aspects related to your assigned product portfolio, resolve customer quality and application issues, and facilitates cross-functional teams for problem solving. You'll also take a leadership role to establish relationships with key contacts in TI wafer fabrication and assembly manufacturing sites to ensure strong communication and effective problem solving.

Product engineering concepts:

• Data analysis knowledge
• Manufacturing systems knowledge
• Product qualification and reliability tests and their implications
• Device failure verification

Test engineering concepts:

• Knowledge of basic test concepts
• Using automated test equipment (tester, tester h/w and s/w interaction)
• Hardware design and software development
• Verifying capability& releasing to manufacturing
• Bench setup – verification/characterization

Validation engineering concepts:

• Validation Concepts knowledge
• Using Bench Setups
• Hardware design& software development
• Device debug

As a Product, Test or Validation Engineer, you will also get exposure to each of these roles through formal learning, projects and on-the-job development experiences that will help you broaden your knowledge and accelerate your growth and success at TI.

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering or related field
• Cumulative 3.0/4.0 GPA or higher

Preferred qualifications

• Basic understanding of schematics, layouts and digital components
• Knowledge and understanding of analog circuitry (examples include: op-amps, DC/DC power, data converters, sensing, etc.)
• Programming skills in C/C++ (LabView recommended)
• Experience with lab equipment, like oscilloscopes, along with soldering and debugging skills
• 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

Texas Instruments is seeking a Design Verification Manager. In this role, you will direct and guide the activities of a design verification function. 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 a Design Verification Manager, you may also select, develop, and evaluate personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.

About this job

As a manager it will be important to have the right people skills to work with and manage a demanding customer and lead, growing team. The position requires innovative design verification solutions with a detail-oriented mind-set that seeks to uncover all bugs before silicon.

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Oversee both DMS and AMS Design Verification teams with execution ownership and responsibility from definition to release to manufacturing
• Actively participate in hiring, developing and evaluating personnel to ensure efficient operation of the organization and growth of the individuals into leaders
• Responsible for driving accountability and execution excellence within the team
• Responsible for mentoring the team, driving increasing capabilities of the team and performance management of the team
• Make assignments for team members, providing guidance as needed, developing schedules and monitoring progress throughout the project
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to enable successful execution of products to production
• Be a verification subject matter expert for interfacing with our customers for custom chips
• Drive innovation and excellence in verification methodologies not just for the custom projects for this team but for TI at large

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
• 10+ years of verification experience with exposure to AMS and DMS verification
• Semiconductor Design Verification experience of Analog Mixed Signal products utilizing self checking test benches in System Verilog.
• Prior management and/or leadership experience

Preferred qualifications:

• Extensive knowledge in Verilog, SystemVerilog, UVM Verification environments with metric tracking, Verilog-A, Verilog-AMS, Python
• Experience with Analog regression methodologies in Cadence ADE-L/ADE-XL or Maestro
• Experience writing models for analog circuits and systems, either in Verilog AMS or real number models in SystemVerilog.
• Extensive track record of success with chip level verification execution for new product development
• Ability to generate detailed chip verification plans, with appropriate resource allocation
• Ability to set strategic direction for the teams and provide guidance in meeting organizational goals
• High sense of responsibility and ownership
• Ability to establish strong relationships with key stakeholders critical to success, both internally and externally
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and an ability to work directly with customers
• 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

TI is seeking an Analog Design Manager for its RF business. In this role, you will direct and guide the activities of a research, technical design and verification functions responsible for designing, developing, modifying and releasing to production analog and radio frequency components and integrated circuits 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, making recommendations for actions necessary to achieve desired results and directly influence the roadmaps for future product and research developments. 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: PhD in Electrical Engineering with direct application to RF
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in RF design and related areas

Preferred qualifications:

• Prior experience leading RF design teams
• Expert in RF simulation and other RF specific design tools
• Experience with RF modeling
• Ability to establish strong relationships with key technical and business stakeholders critical to success, both internally and externally
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to quickly ramp on new systems and processes and define new processes when needed
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work and lead teams; collaborate effectively with people in different functions and organizations
• Ability to take the initiative and drive for results
• Strong time management skills that enable on-time project to delivery

Responsibilities include:

• Work with design team to understand design specifications
• Generate test plan, creating test and char program, designing ATE hardware interface boards
• Debug characterizing silicon on ATE, correlate results with bench data
• Analyze silicon results, supporting failure analysis tasks
• Perform statistical analysis of yield fallout, debugging and fixing yield issues; optimizing test time
• Work with production team to release products to volume production
• Create test strategy definition and implementation for new products
• Work silicon qualification & characterization including qual hardware development
• Comprehensive device debugging, design validation and failure analysis
• Drive for robust and cost effective test solutions while being accountable for product quality

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Software Engineering.
• Cumulative 3.0/4.0 GPA or higher

Preferred qualifications:

• Proficient in computer programming and software development
• Knowledgeable in data analytics/visualization/modeling
• Strong statistical background
• 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