Lead AVV Engineer
Texas Instruments · Posted Oct 21
Semiconductor design, manufacturing, and analog chip solutions
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About the role
The ASM Auto Group at Texas Instruments develops safety-compliant automotive MCUs for EV, HEV, traction inverters, onboard chargers, BMS, and body/chassis control. The role is a technical leadership position in pre-silicon and post-silicon functional validation for these automotive MCUs. The engineer will own subsystem-level validation strategy, lead first-silicon bring-up and root-cause investigations, and partner with Architecture, Design, RTL Verification, and Firmware teams to make silicon readiness recommendations.
What you will do
- Own functional validation strategy and sign-off for complex subsystems (e.g., Ethernet MAC, functional safety, clock/reset/power, multicore interactions)
- Define requirements-to-test traceability, functional coverage closure criteria, and sign-off readiness
- Architect reusable validation frameworks spanning emulation platforms and silicon test environments
- Lead first-silicon functional bring-up and silicon functional test execution
- Lead complex root-cause analysis across firmware, RTL, emulation models, and silicon
- Validate cross-peripheral interactions with DMA, interrupts, clock switching, and low-power transitions
- Lead fault-injection campaigns and functional safety validation evidence (ISO 26262)
- Define pre-silicon to post-silicon correlation and test reuse strategy
- Architect and maintain automation and CI/CD-integrated regression infrastructure
- Define and own performance and benchmarking strategy, including throughput, latency, and timing-margin target.
- Lead resolution of customer-reported issues through reproduction and root-cause analysis
- Define fix or workaround recommendations for customers and drive them to closure
- Lead validation reviews and provide sign-off recommendations
- Mentor engineers and drive continuous improvement in methodology and tooling
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, ECE, Computer Engineering, or related field
- 5+ years of engineering experience working with silicon design and/or validation
- Experience with digital/embedded design on emulation/FPGA platforms/RTL simulation
Preferred qualifications
- Work experience with ARM architecture
- Advanced embedded C and firmware architecture knowledge
- MCU/SoC architecture understanding (multicore, coherency, boot, power domains)
- Expert-level peripheral validation, including complex interactions and error recovery
- Emulation platform experience (QuickTurn, Palladium, ZeBu) and test infrastructure design
- RTL and waveform debugging for SoC-level issues
- Deep understanding of ISO 26262, AUTOSAR, and CAN FD / LIN / Ethernet
- Functional safety subsystem validation and safety-case evidence
- Complex DMA and bus (arbitration, ordering, timeout) validation
- SystemVerilog and advanced RTL debugging
- Track record of building and mentoring validation teams, or publishing technical work
- Excellent technical communication and documentation skills
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures, tests, and sells analog and embedded processing chips for industrial, automotive, personal electronics, and communications markets. The company enables customers to efficiently manage power, accurately sense and transmit data, and provide core control in diverse electronic applications. Known for its historical innovations including the integrated circuit and commercial silicon transistors, Texas Instruments continues to be a major technology provider worldwide.
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- Company size
- 33,000+ employees
- Founded
- 1930
- Location
- Dallas, Texas, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
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