Sr Staff Application Engineer
Renesas · Posted Oct 28
Semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries
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About the role
Renesas is a global semiconductor company supplying MCUs, SoCs, analog and power products for automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT markets. This role sits within Renesas Hardware Support Packages as the technical lead for peripheral blocksets and device variant scaling, building Simulink peripheral blocks (ADC, PWM, UART, CAN) on the foundation layer. The engineer will define block architecture and coding standards, drive automation and validation across MCU variants, and work closely with the MW foundation team to deliver production-ready support packages.
What you will do
- Lead development of peripheral blocksets (ADC, PWM, UART, CAN, etc.) leveraging foundation components and established integration patterns.
- Drive device variant augmentation, defining validation strategies and automation frameworks to scale across Renesas MCU families
- Define block architecture, coding standards, and integration patterns to ensure consistency, reusability, and long‑term maintainability.
- Review IO Builder / System Object implementations and optimize for performance, usability, and customer experience.
- Collaborate closely with the MW foundation team to maintain alignment with core dependencies and release compatibility.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- B. Tech/M. Tech in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Computer Engineering, or related field with 10+ years of experience in embedded systems with strong experience in peripheral driver development.
- Demonstrated experience building support packages / peripheral enablement frameworks at a semiconductor supplier or tools ecosystem team.
- Strong experience with MATLAB/Simulink and MBD concepts, including reusable modeling patterns and integration with code generation.
- Proven ability to design scalable architectures for device variant support, automation, and validation/regression testing.
- Senior Staff‑level technical leadership: architecture ownership, rigorous reviews, mentoring, and cross‑team influence.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience creating custom blockset packages / peripheral libraries / MCAL / CDD for semiconductor solutions.
- Familiarity with IO Builder/System Object patterns and performance tuning in model‑based workflows.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Renesas
Renesas Electronics Corporation is a global semiconductor manufacturer that designs and supplies advanced embedded processors, microcontrollers, analog, power, and connectivity solutions. Serving the automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT sectors, the company delivers integrated technology to support smarter and more sustainable applications worldwide.
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- Company size
- 21629 employees
- Founded
- 2002-11-01
- Location
- Tokyo, Japan
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Representative Executive Officer, President and CEO
Shuhei Shinkai
CFO
Vivek Bhan
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Head of Engineering
Stephen Limoges
Senior Vice President and Chief Sales Officer
Utae Nakanishi
CHRO
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