RF Hardware Applications Engineer - Dallas, TX, United States
Originally posted 31 August 2026 by the employer.
This role focuses on wireless microcontrollers for Car Access, Wireless Battery Management Systems (WBMS) and Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems (TPMS).
About the role
This role involves supporting automotive customers in designing and manufacturing products with TI connectivity, specifically focusing on Bluetooth Low Energy, Ultra-wideband (UWB) and TI WBMS Protocol. You will work with customers on-site to address design challenges and optimize products.
What you'll do
- Answer customer questions and support design-in activities for released products, including forum/email support and schematic/layout reviews.
- Debug customer problems by re-creating issues using evaluation boards or customer boards, and provide on-site support.
- Plan, design, develop, and characterize RF development kits (LaunchPads), EVMs, and RF reference designs.
- Test and optimize RF performance on customer hardware and reference designs in an RF lab, including schematic and layout reviews.
- Perform Electromagnetic (EM) simulations and analyses of designs such as balun, filtering, transmission lines, and impedance matching.
- Develop technical documentation, including application notes, user guides, design notes, and white papers, and provide internal and customer training.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, ECE, Computer Engineering, or related field.
- 3+ years of relevant engineering experience.
- Experience in applications support of wireless and embedded processing devices.
- Solid hardware and software debugging skills.
- Ability to produce high quality technical documentation.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, or related field with 5+ years of relevant experience.
- Experience in applications support of embedded & RF products.
- RF PCB design (Cadence, Altium).
- Hands-on experience with RF test equipment (e.g. spectrum and network analyzer, load pull system) and simulation tools (e.g. ADS, Ansys).
- Regulatory & Compliance testing, experience with antenna design & EMC chamber.
- Knowledge of Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy, Ultra-wideband or proprietary wireless networks.
- Embedded C or Python programming skills.
- Experience working in the automotive industry with an OEM or Tier 1.
- Experience with battery management systems.
- Knowledge of Functional Safety, ISO 26262.
Skills: RF Hardware Applications Engineer, wireless microcontrollers, customer support, RF PCB design, RF test equipment
This role has been open 44 days — below the 48-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · RF Frontend
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Open roles in category
68
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Median days open
48 d
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Median salary
$144k
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| Metric | Texas Instruments | All employers we track in this specialty (68 roles · 17 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 7 | 68 |
| Median days open | 65 d | 48 d (+17 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $144k |
Skills observed across this category: RF Hardware Applications Engineer, wireless microcontrollers, customer support, RF PCB design, RF test equipment
Who's hiring in this category
- Keysight Technologies · 20 open roles · median 48 d
- QORVO · 12 open roles · median 44 d
- Analog Devices · 9 open roles · median 109 d
- Texas Instruments (this employer) · 7 open roles · median 64 d
- Silicon Labs · 4 open roles · median 89 d
- GlobalFoundries · 2 open roles · median 75 d
How we counted: 68 open Applications FAE (RF Frontend) roles from 17 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 14 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.