Principal Power Architect (Product Definition)

Renesas Electronics•San Jose, CA

2d•$180,000 - $225,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Principal Power Architect (Product Definition) drives innovation and develops best-in-class solutions addressing power efficiency and density challenges for data center products serving AI customers. The role works directly with customers to define roadmaps aligned with their platforms and focused on compelling system-level outcomes. It collaborates across marketing, design, packaging, and applications engineering to turn concepts into products and customer solutions. The position analyzes voltage-regulator approaches from the customer’s system perspective, develops collateral and executive-level materials to communicate proposals, and supports top-tier customer engagements to build consensus and advance proposals toward revenue. It also maintains customer relationships for early market visibility and works with Renesas functional teams, as well as design, firmware, and software teams, to support execution and clarify or negotiate necessary compromises.

Requirements

10+ years of multidisciplinary experience in the semiconductor industry.
Understanding of power architecture and product types related to CPUs and other high-current ASICs.
Experience with multiphase voltage regulators or other data center-related power products.
Understanding of magnetics design, passive-component selection, power-device-driver challenges, and real-world implementation challenges.
Experience defining power products for data centers or customer applications.
Experience with embedded SoCs, including cross-functional collaboration with hardware, firmware, and software teams.
Excellent technical and executive communication skills.
Bachelor’s degree required.

Nice To Haves

Experience with high-level modeling tools such as SIMPLIS.
Master’s degree or higher in power engineering preferred.

Responsibilities

Interface with customer systems engineers to understand broad system-level challenges and value drivers.
Analyze voltage-regulator approaches and assess their fit from the customer’s overall perspective.
Build collateral to communicate proposals and support customer engagement.
Prepare executive-summary-level materials for discussions with senior leaders and key customers.
Support top-tier customer engagements, build consensus on proposals, and help advance them toward revenue.
Maintain key customer relationships to enable early market visibility.
Work with Renesas functional teams to identify the best path to customer satisfaction.
Support design, firmware, and software teams during execution by providing clarification or identifying necessary compromises.