Early Career - AI for Analog Design Engineer

Dallas, TX, US Mid Level AI/ML Engineer

Interested in this AI/ML Engineer role at Texas Instruments?

Apply Now →

Skills & Technologies

PythonPytorchTransformers

About This Role

AI job market dashboard showing open roles by category

.component\-styling\-wrapper\-105035 .job\-details\_\_title { color: rgbfont\-family: 'Roboto\-300', Arial, sans\-serif; text\-align: center; } @media all and (min\-width: 768px) { .component\-styling\-wrapper\-105035 .job\-details\_\_title { font\-size: 36px; line\-height: 1\.2 } }

Early Career \- AI for Analog Design Engineer

.component\-styling\-wrapper\-105038 .job\-details\_\_subtitle { color: rgbfont\-family: 'Roboto', Arial, sans\-serif; font\-size: 16px; text\-align: center; line\-height: 1\.5 }

Dallas, TX, United States

.component\-styling\-wrapper\-105036 .apply\-now\-button, .apply\-with\-indeed\-button { max\-width: 270px; } .component\-styling\-wrapper\-105036 .apply\-now\-button, .apply\-with\-indeed\-button { height: 60px; } .component\-styling\-wrapper\-105036 .apply\-now\-button\-apply\-now .button\_\_label, .apply\-with\-indeed\-button { color: rgbfont\-family: 'Roboto\-500', Arial, sans\-serif; font\-size: 16px; } .component\-styling\-wrapper\-105036 .apply\-now\-button\-already\-applied .button\_\_label { color: rgbfont\-family: 'Roboto\-500', Arial, sans\-serif; font\-size: 16px; } .component\-styling\-wrapper\-105036 .apply\-now\-button\-apply\-now::before, .apply\-with\-indeed\-button::before { background\-color: rgbborder\-radius: 2px; } .component\-styling\-wrapper\-105036 .apply\-now\-button\-already\-applied: disabled::before, .component\-styling\-wrapper\-105036 .apply\-now\-button\-already\-applied::before { background\-color: rgbborder\-radius: 2px; } .component\-styling\-wrapper\-105036 .job\-details\_\_section { background\-color: rgb}

Apply Now

.component\-styling\-wrapper\-105039 .job\-details\_\_description\-header { color: rgbtext\-align: center; } .component\-styling\-wrapper\-105039 .job\-details\_\_description\-content { color: rgbfont\-family: 'Roboto', Arial, sans\-serif; } @media all and (min\-width: 768px) { .component\-styling\-wrapper\-105039 .job\-details\_\_description\-content { font\-size: 16px; line\-height: 1\.5 } }

Job Description

Change the world. Love your job.

Texas Instruments is seeking an AI for Analog Design Engineer to join our IT organization in Dallas. In this role, you will design and build AI\-enabled solutions that accelerate analog circuit design, sizing, and layout across TI's IC development teams.

As an AI for Analog Design Engineer, you will apply your expertise in machine learning and analog circuits to develop discriminative and generative AI applications. You will build efficient data pipelines, develop agents using the latest LLMs, train new networks from scratch, and work with partners across TI to deliver solutions that are robust, scalable, performant, and secure.

Responsibilities include:

Design and build AI\-enabled solutions for analog circuit design, sizing, and layout using a combination of classical and neural network\-based algorithms (MLPs, RNNs, CNNs, GNNs, transformers)

Build and maintain efficient data pipelines to support model development, evaluation, and deployment

Develop AI agents using the latest LLMs and contribute to model training workflows

Test solutions with rigor and monitor deployed models for accuracy and data drift

Work with analog design partners across TI to translate engineering workflows into AI\-ready problem formulations and deliver production\-ready solutions

Participate in design reviews and produce technical documentation for developed solutions

.component\-styling\-wrapper\-105040 .job\-details\_\_description\-header { color: rgbtext\-align: center; } .component\-styling\-wrapper\-105040 .job\-details\_\_description\-content { color: rgbfont\-family: 'Roboto', Arial, sans\-serif; } @media all and (min\-width: 768px) { .component\-styling\-wrapper\-105040 .job\-details\_\_description\-content { font\-size: 16px; line\-height: 1\.5 } }

Qualifications

Minimum requirements:

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

2\-5 years of experience in AI/ML development or analog circuit design

Preferred qualifications:

PhD in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience

Development of novel AI/ML\-based approaches to analog circuit design, sizing, or layout with publication in top technical conferences

Design, training, and use of transformer\-based LLMs including reasoning models and agent frameworks

Design, training, and use of additional neural network types (MLPs, RNNs, CNNs, GNNs)

Familiarity with traditional ML techniques including clustering, regression, and tree\-based methods

Python programming and the PyTorch framework

Analog circuit specification, functional design, physical layout, and post\-layout parasitic extraction and simulation

Proficiency with industry\-standard analog development tools such as Ngspice, Cadence Virtuoso Studio, and Spectre

Knowledge of common analog circuit designs including ADCs, DACs, comparators, amplifiers, filters, voltage references, PLLs, and clocks

Strong technical leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills

The ability to dream what could be and the drive to make the dream a reality

Ability to work collaboratively across AI, hardware design, and software engineering teams

.component\-styling\-wrapper\-105033 .job\-details\_\_description\-header { color: rgbtext\-align: center; } .component\-styling\-wrapper\-105033 .job\-details\_\_description\-content { color: rgbfont\-family: 'Roboto', Arial, sans\-serif; } @media all and (min\-width: 768px) { .component\-styling\-wrapper\-105033 .job\-details\_\_description\-content { font\-size: 16px; line\-height: 1\.5 } }

About Us

Why TI?

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.

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

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. Please find our country\-specific benefits here

About Texas Instruments

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, data center, personal electronics and communications equipment. 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.

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.

If you are interested in this position, please apply to this requisition.

.component\-styling\-wrapper\-105030 .job\-details\_\_description\-header { color: rgbtext\-align: center; } .component\-styling\-wrapper\-105030 .job\-details\_\_description\-content { color: rgbfont\-family: 'Roboto', Arial, sans\-serif; } @media all and (min\-width: 768px) { .component\-styling\-wrapper\-105030 .job\-details\_\_description\-content { font\-size: 16px; line\-height: 1\.5 } }

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.

.component\-styling\-wrapper\-105028 .job\-details\_\_description\-header { color: rgbtext\-align: center; } .component\-styling\-wrapper\-105028 .job\-meta\_\_title { color: rgbfont\-family: 'Roboto\-500', Arial, sans\-serif; font\-size: 16px; } .component\-styling\-wrapper\-105028 .job\-meta\_\_subitem { color: rgbfont\-family: 'Roboto', Arial, sans\-serif; font\-size: 16px; }

Job Info

Job Identification 25011659

Job Category Information Technology

Posting Date 07/07/2026, 03:26 PM

Degree Level Master's Degree

Locations EXKI 13560 N Central Expy, Dallas, TX, 75243, US

Shift/Work Schedule 1

ECL/GTC Required Yes

Role Details

Title Early Career - AI for Analog Design Engineer
Location Dallas, TX, US
Category AI/ML Engineer
Experience Mid Level
Salary Not disclosed
Remote No

About This Role

AI/ML Engineers build and deploy machine learning models in production. They work across the full ML lifecycle: data pipelines, model training, evaluation, and serving infrastructure. The role has evolved significantly over the past two years. Where ML Engineers once spent most of their time on model architecture, the job now tilts heavily toward inference optimization, cost management, and integrating LLM capabilities into existing systems. Companies want engineers who can ship production systems, and the experimenter-only role is fading fast.

Day-to-day, you're writing training pipelines, debugging data quality issues, setting up evaluation frameworks, and figuring out why your model performs differently in staging than it did on your dev set. The best ML engineers are obsessive about reproducibility and measurement. They instrument everything. They know that a model is only as good as the data feeding it and the infrastructure serving it.

Across the 3,708 AI roles we're tracking, AI/ML Engineer positions make up 70% of the market. At Texas Instruments, this role fits into their broader AI and engineering organization.

Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.

What the Work Looks Like

A typical week might include: debugging a data pipeline that's silently dropping 3% of training examples, running A/B tests on a new model version, writing documentation for a feature flag system that lets you roll back model deployments, and reviewing a junior engineer's PR for a new evaluation metric. Meetings tend to be cross-functional since ML touches product, engineering, and data teams.

Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.

Skills Required

Python (51% of roles) Pytorch (15% of roles) Transformers (2% of roles)

Python and PyTorch dominate the requirements. Most roles expect experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and familiarity with ML frameworks like TensorFlow or JAX. RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) has become a top-3 skill requirement as companies integrate LLMs into their products. Docker and Kubernetes show up in about a third of postings, reflecting the production focus of the role.

Beyond the core stack, employers increasingly want experience with experiment tracking tools (MLflow, Weights & Biases), feature stores, and vector databases. Fine-tuning experience is valuable but less common than you'd think from reading Twitter. Most production LLM work is RAG and prompt engineering, not fine-tuning. If you have both, you're in a strong position.

Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.

Compensation Benchmarks

AI/ML Engineer roles pay a median of $218,750 based on 3,817 positions with disclosed compensation. Mid-level AI roles across all categories have a median of $200,000.

Across all AI roles, the market median is $217,500. Top-quartile compensation starts at $272,100. The 90th percentile reaches $325,000. For comparison, the highest-paying categories include AI Safety ($300,000) and Research Engineer ($280,000). By seniority level: Entry: $120,000; Mid: $200,000; Senior: $230,000; Director: $272,150; VP: $250,000.

Texas Instruments AI Hiring

Texas Instruments has 2 open AI roles right now. They're hiring across AI/ML Engineer. Positions span Richardson, TX, US, Dallas, TX, US.

Location Context

Across all AI roles, 14% (508 positions) offer remote work, while 3,180 require on-site attendance. Top AI hiring metros: New York (1,045 roles, $220,000 median); San Francisco (810 roles, $277,088 median); Los Angeles (397 roles, $215,000 median).

Career Path

Common paths into AI/ML Engineer roles include Data Scientist, Software Engineer, Research Engineer.

From here, career progression typically leads toward ML Architect, AI Engineering Manager, Principal ML Engineer.

The fastest path into ML engineering is through software engineering with a self-directed ML education. A CS degree helps, but production engineering skills matter more than academic credentials. Build something that works, deploy it, and measure it. That portfolio project is worth more than a Coursera certificate. For career growth, the fork comes around the senior level: go deep on technical complexity (staff/principal track) or move into managing ML teams.

What to Expect in Interviews

Expect system design questions around ML pipelines: how you'd build a training pipeline for a specific use case, handle data drift, or design A/B testing infrastructure for model deployments. Coding rounds typically involve Python, with emphasis on data manipulation (pandas, numpy) and algorithm implementation. Take-home assignments often ask you to build an end-to-end ML pipeline from raw data to deployed model.

When evaluating opportunities: Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.

AI Hiring Overview

The AI job market has 3,708 open positions tracked in our dataset. By seniority: 102 entry-level, 1,705 mid-level, 1,469 senior, and 432 leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level). Remote roles make up 14% of the market (508 positions). The remaining 3,180 roles require on-site or hybrid attendance.

The market median for AI roles is $217,500. Top-quartile compensation starts at $272,100. The 90th percentile reaches $325,000. Highest-paying categories: AI Safety ($300,000 median, 21 roles); Research Engineer ($280,000 median, 147 roles); AI Architect ($254,798 median, 67 roles).

Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.

The AI Job Market Today

The AI job market spans 3,708 open positions across 16 role categories. The largest categories by volume: AI/ML Engineer (2,605), Data Scientist (310), AI Software Engineer (259). These three account for the majority of open positions, though smaller categories often have higher per-role compensation because of specialized skill requirements.

The seniority mix tells a story about where AI teams are in their maturity. Entry-level roles (102) are outnumbered by mid-level (1,705) and senior (1,469) positions, reflecting that most companies are past the 'build a team from scratch' phase and need experienced engineers who can ship production systems. Leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level) total 432 positions, representing the bottleneck between technical execution and organizational strategy.

Remote work availability sits at 14% of all AI roles (508 positions), with 3,180 requiring on-site or hybrid attendance. The remote share has stabilized after the post-pandemic correction. Senior and specialized roles (Research Scientist, ML Architect) are more likely to be remote-eligible than entry-level positions, partly because experienced hires have more negotiating power and partly because these roles require less hands-on mentorship.

AI compensation is structured in clear tiers. The market median sits at $217,500. Top-quartile roles start at $272,100, and the 90th percentile reaches $325,000. These figures include base salary with disclosed compensation. Total compensation (including equity, bonuses, and sign-on) runs 20-40% higher at companies that offer those components.

Category matters for compensation. AI Safety roles lead at $300,000 median, while Prompt Engineer roles sit at $140,000. The spread between highest and lowest-paying categories reflects the premium on specialized technical skills versus broader analytical roles.

The most in-demand skills across all AI postings: Python (1,890 postings), Aws (1,103 postings), Azure (877 postings), Rag (855 postings), Gcp (631 postings), Prompt Engineering (560 postings), Pytorch (545 postings), Claude (498 postings). Python dominates, appearing in the vast majority of role descriptions regardless of category. Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) is the second most common requirement. The newer entrants to the top skills list (RAG, vector databases, LLM APIs) reflect the shift from traditional ML toward generative AI applications.

Frequently Asked Questions

Based on 3,817 roles with disclosed compensation, the median salary for AI/ML Engineer positions is $218,750. Actual compensation varies by seniority, location, and company stage.
Python and PyTorch dominate the requirements. Most roles expect experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and familiarity with ML frameworks like TensorFlow or JAX. RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) has become a top-3 skill requirement as companies integrate LLMs into their products. Docker and Kubernetes show up in about a third of postings, reflecting the production focus of the role.
About 14% of the 3,708 AI roles we track offer remote work. Remote availability varies by company and seniority level, with senior and leadership roles more likely to offer location flexibility.
Texas Instruments is among the companies actively hiring for AI and ML talent. Check our company profiles for detailed breakdowns of open roles, salary ranges, and hiring trends.
Common next steps from AI/ML Engineer positions include ML Architect, AI Engineering Manager, Principal ML Engineer. Progression depends on whether you lean toward technical depth, people management, or product strategy.

Get Weekly AI Career Intelligence

Salary data, skills demand, and market signals from 16,000+ AI job postings. Every Monday.