System Engineer

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Do you want play a pivotal role in shaping the future of automotive electronics? Look no further. As a Texas Instruments (TI) Systems Engineer in out Functional Safety PMIC group you will have an opportunity to define and participate in developing next-generation power management solutions for automotive applications in safety critical areas like steering, braking and ADAS systems. You will work with TI’s international R&D teams in Oulu and Dalla and collaborate with leading automotive system vendors and car manufacturers globally building a future with more energy efficient, smarter and safer vehicles. Position is available in Oulu, Finland or Freising, Germany or Dallas, USA depending on your preference.

Responsibilities include:

• Research and create new product definitions, including developing business case proposals and product strategies
• Analyze key end-equipment in automotive space to identify trends, opportunities for improving performance and adding value to these systems
• Contribute to the short and long term product strategy and roadmap
• Assess and negotiate IC functionality and specification tradeoffs with design team and customers
• Define, analyze and document the functional safety architecture and implementation PMIC product in accordance with ISO26262 standard
• Drive new product development by supporting design, DV, test and validation to choose right implementation and validation throughout the development process until start of manufacturing
• Be the ultimate technical expert, supporting customer design-in and getting IC to production
• Silicon system evaluation (HW, SW if needed) and related documentation in collaboration with silicon validation and test teams
• Application support for newly introduced and existing products with applications engineering team
• Support and train central applications engineering and sales organizations on new/existing products
• Relentlessly drive new design wins for new and existing products
• Bring quick resolution to customer problems by interfacing across different functional groups such as design, product, test, packaging, marketing and sales
• Create technical literature such as datasheets, functional safety documentation, reference design documents, application white papers and other similar documents
• Build relationships with customers/field teams by closely interacting with them to identify and solve system problems with TI IC products

Qualifications

Minimum requirements:

• Masters's degree in Electrical Engineering
• At least 5 years of relevant experience designing and/or defining IC products or supporting customer use of such products in automotive applications
• Strong understanding of power management analog/mixed-signal IC's and their application in power management products
• Familiarity with concept of functional safety and ISO26262 standard
• Experience promoting/marketing ICs and driving design wins by providing system solutions
• Strong customer facing skills
• Familiarity with lab equipment

Preferred qualifications:

• Ability to establish strong relationships with key stakeholders critical to success, both internally and externally
• Thorough knowledge and experience in developing automotive functional safety systems in accordance with ISO26262
• Experience of automotive systems such as braking, steering, body control or ADAS systems
• 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, ability to see the big picture and separate critical from nice-to-have
• Strong time management skills that enable on-time completion of tasks in situations with multiple parallel tasks compete for priority