Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, or Computer Engineering; 5-7 years in embedded hardware/system design and validation.
Experience with microcontrollers, power management, and analog/mixed-signal products.
Strong understanding of SoC architecture and ARM cores with low-power design techniques.
Familiarity with electronic components like PMICs and MOSFETs.
Experience with validating high-speed interfaces and standard protocols.
Knowledge of C/C++ for embedded programming and firmware development.
Hands-on experience with lab tools, validation frameworks, and debug utilities.
Responsibilities
Lead hardware validation planning and execution for embedded products.
Drive technical decisions to ensure hardware platform robustness and usability.
Own the execution process from ideation to production readiness.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams for hardware-software integration.
Identify and mitigate technical risks in hardware for enhanced user experience.
Support new product prototypes, including bench testing and evaluation.
Contribute to documentation for customer adoption and provide feedback to product teams.
Benefits
Competitive benefits package provided in the hiring process.
Full Job Description
Job Description
Lead hardware validation planning and execution of embedded products, applications and solutions utilizing a wide portfolio of Renesas products
Drive hardware technical decisions, ensuring robustness, usability and completeness of hardware platforms
Own hardware execution from ideation, validation through qualification and production readiness.
Collaborate closely with systems, firmware/software, validation, and product engineering teams to ensure seamless hardware-software integration.
Identify and mitigate hardware-related technical risks, ensuring highest user experience
Planning and execution of new product prototype bring-up, bench-testing, and evaluation.
Support creation and review of technical documentation (Datasheets, User Manuals/Guides, Application Notes etc)
Feedback findings, issues, potential improvements to product development teams
Contribute to reference designs, development platforms, and documentation to enable broad customer adoption.
Act as a technical mentor, influencing best practices and raising the bar for hardware design excellence.
Qualifications
Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Computer Engineering, with at least 5- 7 years of experience
5-7 years of experience in embedded hardware and system design and validation encompassing microcontrollers, power management and analog/mixed-signal products
Strong understanding of SoC architecture, ARM cores (A/M series), peripherals, power/clock/reset, and low-power design techniques.
Very good understanding of electronic components like PMICs, MOSFETs, GaN, and other discretes
Experience validating high-speed interfaces (e.g., DDR, USB, PCIe, MIPI, Ethernet) and standard protocols (SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, etc.).
Knowledge of C/C++ or embedded programming for firmware development
Hands-on experience with lab tools (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power analyzers, thermal sensors).
Familiarity with validation frameworks, debug utilities (JTAG, Lauterbach, OpenOCD), and issue tracking systems (JIRA, Bugzilla).
Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills.
Hands-on experience with Signal Integrity (SI) and Power Integrity (PI) analysis for high-speed digital, mixed-signal, and power-dense designs.
Applying best practices in schematic design, PCB layout, stack-up definition, decoupling strategies, and grounding.
Proven experience delivering embedded hardware designs from concept through production.
Additional Information
We believe in rewarding our employees with a competitive benefits package alongside their salary. More information will be provided during the hiring process.
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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.
