Texas Instruments
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🏢 About Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments (TI) is a global semiconductor company designing, manufacturing, and selling analog and embedded processing chips — powering everything from industrial automation to automotive safety systems worldwide.
👥 About the Team — High Speed Data Interface Product Group
The High Speed Data Interface product group focuses on the development of differentiated high-speed SerDes SoCs targeted for automotive and industrial markets. There are two primary focus areas — Ethernet PHY and FPD-Link.
Ethernet PHY Group: A large number of applications — like in-vehicle driver alertness monitors, steering, or accelerator control in automotive and robotic applications — require an Ethernet interface. The ubiquity of Ethernet-enabled devices allows customers to simplify connecting large numbers of devices in automotive and robotic environments. Customers expect robust performance in the presence of interference and ESD events, along with processing offload capabilities. The low-cost migration from CAN to Ethernet presents unique challenges requiring interdisciplinary skills with aggressive cost and power targets.
FPD-Link Group: The proprietary FPD-Link interface addresses multi-gigabit (up to 20 Gbps) automotive and industrial sensor and display markets. Constant increase in density of electronic sensing and display content is pushing data rate (>20 Gbps) and BER performance requirements higher. Automotive functional safety requirements demand robust performance at these high data rates under challenging environments while maintaining low power consumption.
The Broader Mission: As part of this product group, you will be engaged in designing solutions spanning Analog, Digital, and Signal Processing domains to mitigate impairments such as high channel loss, ESD strikes, and narrowband interference. The team implements high-performance equalization circuits (CTLE, FFE, DFE), high-speed converters (DAC, ADC), high-speed digital front-ends, signal processing algorithms, embedded microcontrollers, and high-speed interfaces for camera and display systems. The team has successfully achieved several differentiated innovations through collaborative cross-domain optimization.
🌟 The entire product lifecycle — from product specification to customer and application support — is owned by the product group in Bangalore, giving each team member tremendous learning opportunity and enhanced scope to influence the global success of the product. We are looking for passionate, creative, and self-driven engineers who challenge traditional techniques and come up with innovative solutions to make a difference.
🎯 Role Overview
As a Signal Processing & Algorithms Engineer, you will be the mathematical brain behind TI's SerDes SoC performance. You will develop, model, and optimize advanced DSP algorithms that tackle the most challenging impairments in high-speed automotive data links — from severe channel loss and ESD-induced distortion to narrowband EMI interference — and translate them into efficient hardware implementations.
🔧 Key Responsibilities
- Develop and optimize channel equalization algorithms — adaptive CTLE, FFE, and DFE — for high-loss, long-reach automotive channels approaching and exceeding 20 Gbps
- Design algorithms for interference mitigation addressing EMI, crosstalk, and conducted noise in automotive and industrial environments
- Build solutions for narrowband noise cancellation in high-speed SerDes data links operating in electromagnetically challenging automotive environments
- Perform system-level link budget analysis and simulation to predict SoC performance under real-world channel and noise conditions
- Translate floating-point algorithm concepts into fixed-point, hardware-friendly implementations suitable for RTL realization
- Collaborate with analog and digital design teams for algorithm-to-silicon co-optimization — balancing performance, power, and area
- Build, simulate, and validate algorithms using MATLAB / Python before RTL handoff to digital design teams
- Contribute to IP generation, patent filings, and publication of differentiated innovations
✅ Required Qualifications
- Education: B.Tech / M.Tech / Ph.D. in Signal Processing / Electronics / Communications Engineering
- Experience: 3–5 years of DSP algorithm development for high-speed communications or wireline
- Strong proficiency in MATLAB and/or Python for algorithm modeling and simulation
- Deep understanding of adaptive equalization techniques (LMS, RLS, MMSE)
- Experience with fixed-point algorithm implementation and hardware co-design
- Background in equalization, adaptive filtering, or noise cancellation for high-speed data links
- Strong mathematical foundation in digital communications, estimation theory, and signal processing
🌟 Preferred / Good-to-Have Skills
- Experience with SerDes or Ethernet PHY channel modeling and link simulation
- Familiarity with EMI / narrowband interference characterization in automotive environments
- Knowledge of LDPC, turbo coding, or forward error correction for wireline systems
- Background in system-level BER simulation and link margin analysis
- Experience bridging algorithm models to RTL implementation in collaboration with digital design teams
💡 What Makes This Role Unique
📡 Algorithm Innovation Develop algorithms that define the performance frontier of automotive SerDes
🚗 Domain Impact Your algorithms enable reliable communication in automotive safety systems
🔄 Full Lifecycle Ownership Algorithm → Silicon → Customer validation — all from Bangalore
🤝 Cross-Domain Collaboration Work alongside analog, digital & physical design teams
🌍 Global Influence Shape products deployed in automotive platforms worldwide
📈 Career Growth High-visibility role with direct IP and innovation impact
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