Principal Power Architect (Product Definition)

Renesas Electronics•San Jose, CA

About The Position

In this role, you will drive innovation and deliver solutions addressing power efficiency and density challenges for datacenter products serving AI customers. You will work directly with customers to define roadmaps aligned with their platforms and focused on compelling system-level outcomes. You will collaborate with marketing, design, packaging, and applications engineering teams to develop and deliver product proposals. The role also supports top-tier customer engagements, maintains key customer relationships, and works with internal teams to guide product execution. Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider with a global team of more than 21,000 engineers and problem solvers in over 30 countries. Its stated culture is TAGIE: Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial. Renesas describes its work as shaping a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter future through technology for Automotive, Industrial, Infrastructure, and IoT. The company is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. The position may involve U.S. export-controlled dual-use technology; a government export license may be required before technology can be released to certain persons.

Requirements

At least 10 years of multidisciplinary experience in the semiconductor industry.
Understanding of general power architecture and product types related to CPUs and other high-current ASICs.
Experience with multiphase voltage regulators or other datacenter-related power products.
Comprehension of magnetics design, passive component selection, power-device driver challenges, and real-world implementation challenges.
Experience defining power products for datacenters 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

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

Responsibilities

Interface with customer systems engineers to understand broad challenges and value drivers.
Analyze voltage-regulator approaches and assess how they fit customers’ overall needs.
Build collateral to present 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 drive them to 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.