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<strong>Job Description</strong><br><br><strong>Change the world. Love your job.</strong><br><br>When you join TI, you will participate in the Career Accelerator Program (CAP), which provides professional and technical training and resources to accelerate your ramp into TI and set you up for long-term career success. Within this program, we also offer function-specific technical training and on-the-job learning opportunities that will encourage you to solve problems through a variety of hands-on, meaningful experiences from your very first day on the job.<br><br>The FAST (Field Applications & Sales Training) Program is designed to prepare Sales & Applications team members for customer-oriented careers that pair technical skills with business perspectives. The program provides experiences that help rising TIers understand how to successfully grow TI's business and to thrive throughout their entire TI career. There are two available FAST program tracks: (1) Field Applications and (2) Technical Sales.<br><br><strong>Field Applications Engineer track</strong><br>This 12-month experience aims to establish rising Field Applications Engineers (FAEs) as technical TI experts with customer engineers and internal teams. The track includes 3 rotations:<br><br><strong>Rotation 1, Field Sales Office (FSO): </strong>The FSO rotation is centered on learning how to work directly with customers to solve technical challenges, and to ultimately maximize TI's revenue by providing customers with the systems-level solutions that best address their design needs. Among other aspects, the FSO rotation focuses on analyzing technical trade-offs, understanding component selection, and solving design and cost challenges.<br><br><strong>Rotation 2, Mass Market (MM):</strong> The MM rotation is designed to train FAEs on how to scale any action within a given sector or EE across multiple customers. Rotators will participate in innovative projects to help create new and more efficient sales processes. This rotation focuses on learning how to leverage TI's resources, automation, practice scalable selling techniques, decision making in imperfect circumstances, and direct customer interactions.<br><br><strong>Rotation 3, Business Unit/Systems Engineering & Marketing (BU/SEM):</strong> This rotation provides hands-on experiences that help future FAEs understand how various TI components fit together to provide systems-level solutions for customer designs. Rotators will be trained on business acumen, technical capabilities, and processes for new product definition and introduction. This rotation focuses on technical product selection, schematic/layout capture, PCB layouts, fabrication processes, board bring up and validation.<br><br>Upon successful completion of the Field Applications Engineer track, participants are welcomed as FAEs on TI's Worldwide Sales & Applications team. FAE responsibilities include:<br><ul> <li>Using various sales tools and relationships with design engineering to identify all potential projects</li> <li>Providing customers with proactive proposals for complete, system-level solutions that maximize TI content</li> <li>Using broad technical expertise to influence customers' part selection process while favorably positioning TI versus competition</li></ul><br>Texas Instruments will not sponsor job applicants for visas or work authorization for this position.<br><br><strong>Qualifications</strong><br><br><strong>Minimum requirements:</strong><br> <ul> <li>Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Technology, Electrical Engineering Technology, Electrical and Computer Engineering or related field</li> <li>Cumulative 3.0/4.0 GPA or higher</li> </ul> <br><strong>Preferred qualifications:</strong><br> <ul> <li>Experience with lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, along with soldering and debugging skills</li> <li>Programming skills in C/C++ (LabView recommended)</li> <li>Demonstrated strong analytical and problem solving skills</li> <li>Excellent communication and presentation skills</li> <li>Ability to work in teams and collaborate effectively with people in different functions</li> <li>Strong time management skills that enable on-time project delivery</li> <li>Ability to build lasting, influential relationships, both inside and outside the organization</li> <li>Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment</li> <li>Ability to take initiative and drive for results</li> <li>Ability to influence decisions through a sense of urgency and competitive drive</li> </ul><br><br><strong>About Us</strong><br><br><b>Why TI?</b> <br> <br> <ul> <li>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.</li> <li>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</li> <li>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.</li> </ul> <br><br><b>About Texas Instruments</b> <br> <br> 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, personal electronics, communications equipment and enterprise systems. 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. <br><br>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. <br><br>If you are interested in this position, please apply to this requisition.<br><br><strong>About the Team</strong><br><br>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.

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