Job Description

At TI, System Engineers serve as the technical bridge between TI’s global customers, field teams and internal product development teams. This role combines customer engagement, system-level technical expertise and cross-functional leadership to identify market opportunities, shape competitive roadmaps, define differentiated products and lead product execution from concept through release.

What makes this role unique:

• The opportunity to influence product strategy and roadmap by turning real customer challenges into differentiated semiconductor products.
• Direct engagement with global customers and TI field teams across personal electronics, industrial, data center, automotive and communications equipment markets.
• End-to-end exposure to the semiconductor product lifecycle, from market research and customer insight through product definition, development, qualification and release.
• Cross-functional leadership and decision-making by working closely with design, applications, marketing, test, validation, packaging teams.

RGB LED Driver System Engineer’s responsibilities may include:

• Customer Engagement: Proactively initiate and maintain technical engagements with global customers and TI field teams. Build trusted relationships, stay close to evolving customer needs and pain points, and gather first-hand market and system insights through direct customer interaction.
• Roadmap Influence: Shape competitive product roadmaps and partner with marketing and applications teams to prioritize opportunities that strengthen TI’s market leadership.
• Product Definition: Translate customer and market insights into differentiated product concepts and IC definitions, while balancing customer value, technical feasibility, manufacturability, cost and schedule.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Lead technical alignment throughout product development when working with design and backend teams. Constructively challenge assumptions, identify technical gaps and drive cross-functional teams toward timely decisions and issue closure.
• Portfolio Promotion: Promote existing product portfolio by clearly presenting product differentiation, enabling sales and field applications teams, and supporting strategic customer opportunities to accelerate design-ins and design wins.
• Technical Documentation: Create and maintain technical literature, including product specifications, datasheets etc.

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.
• 3-5 years of experience in the development or application of analog and mixed-signal ICs.
• Demonstrated ability to proactively engage with customers, uncover their needs and pain points, and drive the resolution of customer technical problems
• Experience promoting/marketing ICs and driving design wins by providing system solutions
• Fundamental understanding of analog and mixed-signal technologies, digital control, communication interfaces and power design.
• Working knowledge of the semiconductor product development lifecycle, including product definition, IC design, test, validation, qualification, production ramp and release.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in both Mandarin and English.

Preferred qualifications:

• Ability to take the initiative and drive for results
• Ability to establish strong relationships with key stakeholders critical to success, both internally and externally
• Ability to quickly ramp on new market, end equipment and technical niche.
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work in teams and collaborate effectively with people in different functions
• Strong time management skills that enable on-time project delivery
• Hands-on with system evaluation, board-level debugging and common laboratory equipment