Senior Staff Application Engineer, 48V DC/DC

Renesas Electronics•Austin, TX

16h•Onsite

About The Position

This role serves as a key interface between product engineering, test engineering, and design engineering. The focus is on customer system applications, design-in support, and development of technical collateral for both new and existing products. This role will drive system-level innovation, including defining architectures, evaluating advanced power solutions, and validating complete 48V DC/DC systems that meet next-generation performance, reliability, and customer requirements.

Requirements

Bachelor's or above in Power Electronics Engineering.
Minimum of 5 years’ hand-on experience in the 48V DC/DC power
Good understanding of basic topology, control loop theory, magnetic and application in power converters
Proficiency with SIMPLIS or similar circuit simulator in a switching regulator context
Proficiency with PCB CAD tools for both schematic and layout.
Excellent lab-based problem-solving skills. Ability to debug & dig out the root cause.
Have driven force in projects, results oriented

Responsibilities

Investigate and verify advanced solutions to meet latest requirements of 48V DC/DC application.
Maintain exited 48V solution of designing eval board, validation, continually improvement.
Provide referenced design to customers and provide technical support to customers.
Communicate with customers for design reviews, solution presentation, issue solving.
Write product datasheets with applications sections, application notes, internal and external presentations, and demo board user manuals, responsible for all text, graphs, and diagrams.
Perform and design Lab tests (using manual and automatic methods of measurement) to verify, characterize, and prevent future failures of analog/power management circuits using Lab benchtop equipment.
System validation with new controller, gate driver and power stage, etc.