Renesas Electronics America

Embedded Systems Firmware Architect

Renesas Electronics America$120K — $150K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in embedded firmware, embedded systems, digital power, SoC firmware, or related semiconductors.
  • Strong C programming experience for resource-constrained systems.
  • Experience with microcontrollers and embedded peripherals including interrupts and timers.
  • Ability to translate system-level requirements into firmware APIs and data structures.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills for clear documentation.

Responsibilities

  • Define firmware architecture for digital multiphase power controllers and power management products.
  • Develop firmware interfaces for telemetry, diagnostics, and control support.
  • Translate system architecture needs into firmware contracts, APIs, and execution flows.
  • Collaborate across teams: systems, firmware, digital and analog design, verification, and validation.
  • Support embedded characterization methods like signal injection and frequency-response measurement.
  • Create prototypes to reduce architectural risk and validate feasibility.
  • Document firmware architecture specifications, behaviors, and validation expectations.

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits package including healthcare, retirement plans, and professional development opportunities.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Renesas is seeking an experienced Embedded Systems/Firmware Architect to define firmware architecture, control interfaces, telemetry systems, and diagnostic frameworks for next-generation digital power management products for AI, data center, and high-performance computing applications.

This role works at the intersection of embedded firmware, control systems, semiconductor hardware, validation, and system architecture. The successful candidate will help define scalable firmware frameworks that enable advanced power management, monitoring, characterization, tuning, diagnostics, and system optimization features across multiple product families.

This is an architecture-focused role that partners closely with firmware development teams. It is ideal for someone who can prototype quickly, understand implementation tradeoffs, and define clean firmware-facing contracts for complex mixed-signal control systems.

Responsibilities
  • Define firmware architecture requirements for digital multiphase power controllers and related power management products.
  • Develop system-facing firmware interfaces for telemetry, monitoring, diagnostics, tuning, characterization, and control-loop support.
  • Translate system architecture needs into clean firmware contracts, data structures, APIs, timing expectations, and execution flows.
  • Collaborate with systems, firmware, digital design, analog design, verification, validation, applications, and software/tool teams.
  • Support embedded characterization methods such as signal injection, frequency-response measurement, fixed-point signal processing, runtime monitoring, and health-oriented diagnostics.
  • Create reference implementations or early prototypes when needed to reduce architectural risk and validate implementation feasibility.
  • Document firmware architecture specifications, interface behavior, operating ranges, limits, timing requirements, and validation expectations.
  • Help establish reusable firmware patterns across product families while leaving production firmware delivery ownership with the firmware implementation team.


Qualifications
  • 8+ years of experience in embedded firmware, embedded systems, digital power, SoC firmware, control-oriented firmware, or related semiconductor product development.
  • Strong C programming experience for resource-constrained embedded systems.
  • Experience with microcontrollers, embedded peripherals, interrupts, timers, fixed-point math, register interfaces, and hardware bring-up.
  • Ability to translate system-level requirements into firmware APIs, data structures, execution flows, and testable contracts.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document architecture clearly for multiple execution teams.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with digital power controllers, DC/DC converters, voltage regulators, telemetry, diagnostics, or firmware-enabled power management products.
  • Experience with frequency-response measurement, Bode-style characterization, embedded auto-tuning, or signal-processing techniques.
  • Experience with Python, automation, data analysis, firmware test infrastructure, or model-based development workflows.
  • Familiarity with Verilog, SystemVerilog, hardware modeling, or hardware/software interface definition.
  • Experience working across firmware, hardware, validation, software tools, applications, and systems engineering teams.

Education
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.


We believe in rewarding our employees with a competitive benefits package alongside their salary. More information will be provided during the hiring process.

Are you ready to join our team and shape the future with us?

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About Renesas Electronics America

Renesas Electronics America is a leading supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions including microcontrollers, SoC solutions and a broad range of analog and power devices, with operations spanning research, development, design and manufacturing for a wide range of applications.
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