Senior Staff Application Engineer
About The Position
Renesas Performance Computing Power Application Engineering team is seeking an engineer to work on digital power management solutions and contribute to the technical and commercial success of the company. The role requires deep technical understanding of multiphase voltage regulator systems, Renesas products, and customer systems, along with the ability to contribute to product definition and business planning. It also requires significant technical experience beyond traditional power management because the products include embedded SoCs. The engineer will translate market understanding into product requirements and market adoption, support technical marketing and customer engagement, collaborate across engineering and business functions, and provide technical support and training. 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 culture is grounded in being Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial. The company describes its benefits package as competitive, with further information provided during hiring. Remote work is not available.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Engineering or technical equivalent.
- At least 10 years of experience in the power management industry.
- Experience with firmware-enabled products and powering large-scale application-specific integrated circuits, such as CPUs and GPUs, in the data center market.
- Experience with multiphase DC/DC converters powering Intel, AMD, or SoC systems.
- Mixed-signal integrated circuit/system knowledge or experience.
- Experience with digitally enabled power management products.
- Understanding of control-loop theory and its application in power converters.
- Proficiency with laboratory equipment, including network analyzers, oscilloscopes, and waveform generators.
- Experience automating laboratory testing.
Responsibilities
- Translate market understanding into product definition and market adoption.
- Support technical marketing through global customer visits to promote products and uncover customer needs.
- Provide analysis for marketing business plans, demonstrating the technical merit of Renesas solutions compared with competing solutions.
- Create technically detailed Product Requirements Documents to support design specification development.
- Work with design engineering to address conflicts among requirements, capabilities, and business expectations.
- Participate in FPGA-based design prototyping to verify that key features and functions meet expectations.
- Collaborate with design and other staff to find solutions when targets are not met.
- Guide staff in creating Applications Validation Plans and ensure corner cases are covered.
- Develop intellectual property by finding unique solutions to critical customer problems.
- Assist marketing with analysis to establish the monetary value of intellectual property.
- Interface with key ASIC suppliers to understand requirements and ensure alignment in product development.
- Provide deep technical support and training to advance Renesas’s commercial success.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package; details provided during the hiring process.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
