Renesas Electronics America

Senior Staff Application Engineer, 48V DC/DC

Renesas Electronics America$130K — $155K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Power Electronics Engineering
  • At least 5 years of hands-on experience with 48V DC/DC power systems
  • Solid grasp of control loop theory and power converter applications
  • Experience with SIMPLIS or similar circuit simulation software
  • Proficient in PCB CAD tools for schematic and layout design
  • Strong lab-based problem-solving abilities
  • Results-driven with a proactive project management approach

Responsibilities

  • Investigate advanced 48V DC/DC solutions to meet new requirements
  • Maintain and improve existing 48V design evaluations
  • Create reference designs and provide technical customer support
  • Engage with customers for design reviews and solution discussions
  • Write product documentation including datasheets and user manuals
  • Conduct lab tests to validate and characterize power management circuits
  • Validate systems with new controllers and power stages

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Detailed information provided during the hiring process
Full Job Description
Job Description

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.

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.


Qualifications
  • Education: Bachelor's or above in Power Electronics Engineering.
  • Experience: 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


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.

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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