Product, Test & Validation Engineer
Texas Instruments • Dallas, Texas, United States
**Role & seniority: ** Engineer – Product, Test & Validation (entry/mid-level not explicitly stated); placed into one of three functions: Product Engineering, Test Engineering, or Validation Engineering.
**Stack/tools: **
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ATE (Automated Test Equipment) platforms for automated test programs
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Test hardware: load boards, fixtures, bench test setups
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Automation/scripts/tools for data collection, measurement, and analysis
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Hardware/software to implement test algorithms and qualify reliability/qualification plans
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Top 3 responsibilities (typical across functions):
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Deliver product quality through test development/qualification/validation (qualification, reliability, operational conditions).
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Use data analysis (production/test/validation) to identify trends, outliers/escapes, and drive corrective actions.
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Perform root-cause failure/silicon debugging and support resolution of customer field returns or performance gaps.
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Must-have skills:
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Strong understanding of analog power IC testing/validation concepts
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Root-cause analysis / structured failure analysis methods
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Data-driven troubleshooting and quality-focused problem solving
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Ability to work cross-functionally across design, applications, manufacturing, and quality
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Nice-to-haves:
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Experience with test program transfer to manufacturing sites
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Skills in automating test and data collection (sc
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Full Description
Engineer - Product, Test & Validation
Change the world. Love your job.
Texas Instruments is seeking an Engineer - Product, Test & Validation to join our Analog Power Products organization in Dallas. Depending on your background
and the needs of the team, you will be placed into one of three functions
- product engineering, test engineering, or validation engineering.
All three functions are critical to delivering high-quality analog power ICs to market. In whichever function you join, you will work closely with IC design, applications, manufacturing, and quality teams across the full product development lifecycle.
Responsibilities include: Product Engineering
- Serve as primary point of contact for all manufacturing and operational aspects of assigned analog power IC product lines
- Analyze production data to identify yield and quality trends, and drive corrective actions with wafer fabrication, assembly, and test sites
- Lead product qualification and reliability testing to support new product introductions and technology transfers
- Resolve customer quality issues and field returns through structured failure analysis and root cause investigation
- Identify and execute cost reduction and yield improvement opportunities
- Maintain and improve product documentation including test limits, qualification plans, and product change notifications
Test Engineering
- Develop and debug automated test programs for analog power ICs on industry-standard ATE platforms
- Design, build, and qualify load boards and test hardware to support device test requirements
- Optimize test time and cost while maintaining quality and coverage requirements
- Collaborate with design and validation engineers to translate device specifications into test algorithms
- Support transfer of test programs and hardware to manufacturing test sites
- Analyze test data to identify escapes, outliers, and opportunities for quality improvement
Validation Engineering
- Develop and execute validation plans for analog power ICs across operating conditions including temperature, voltage, and load variations
- Design and build bench test setups including hardware fixtures and software automation
- Characterize device performance and identify deviations from specification
- Identify, document, and drive resolution of silicon issues through structured debugging and root cause analysis
- Collaborate with IC design engineers to validate functional correctness and resolve performance gaps
- Develop scripts and tools to automate data collection, measurement, and analysis
- Support product release by executing reliability and qualification testing per industry standards
Why TI?
- Engineer your future. We empower our employees to truly own their career and development. Come collaborate with some of the smartest people in the world to shape the future of electronics.
- We're different by design. Diverse backgrounds and perspectives are what push innovation forward and what make TI stronger. We value each and every voice, and look forward to hearing yours. Meet the people of TI
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- Benefits that benefit you. We offer competitive pay and benefits designed to help you and your family live your best life. Your well-being is important to us. Please find our country-specific benefits here
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About Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated (Nasdaq: TXN) is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and sells analog and embedded processing chips for markets such as industrial, automotive, data center, personal electronics and communications equipment. At our core, we have a passion to create a better world by making electronics more affordable through semiconductors. This passion is alive today as each generation of innovation builds upon the last to make our technology more reliable, more affordable and lower power, making it possible for semiconductors to go into electronics everywhere. Learn more at TI.com
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Texas Instruments is an equal opportunity employer and supports a diverse, inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, disability, genetic information, national origin, gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
If you are interested in this position, please apply to this requisition.
TI does not make recruiting or hiring decisions based on citizenship, immigration status or national origin. However, if TI determines that information access or export control restrictions based upon applicable laws and regulations would prohibit you from working in this position without first obtaining an export license, TI expressly reserves the right not to seek such a license for you and either offer you a different position that does not require an export license or decline to move forward with your employment.