Sr Staff Engineer- Hardware Development Motor Control Solutions
Renesas · Posted Oct 13
Semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries
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About the role
Renesas is a global semiconductor company providing MCUs, SoCs, analog and power products for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT markets. This role owns technical leadership and execution of hardware development for the RH850 Motor Control and Automotive Application Platform, spanning hardware and embedded firmware integration. It drives hardware architecture, design quality, validation, and production readiness for motor control and power conversion solutions while collaborating with systems, firmware, validation, and product engineering teams.
What you will do
- Lead hardware architecture, design, and implementation for RH850 motor control and automotive application platforms, including development and validation of complete motor control solutions.
- Drive hardware technical decisions, ensuring robustness, scalability, cost effectiveness, and alignment with platform requirements.
- Own hardware execution from concept, design, and validation through qualification and production readiness.
- Collaborate closely with systems, firmware/software, validation, and product engineering teams to ensure seamless hardware-software integration and successful delivery of motor control solutions.
- Support regulatory compliance, qualification, and Global Market Access (GMA) readiness for hardware deliverables.
- Identify and mitigate hardware-related technical risks, ensuring predictable execution and high quality.
- Contribute to reference designs, development platforms, solution collaterals and documentation to enable broad customer adoption.
- Act as a technical mentor, influencing best practices and raising the bar for hardware design excellence.
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 12+ years of experience.
- Hands-on experience with Signal Integrity (SI) and Power Integrity (PI) analysis for high-speed digital, mixed-signal, and power-dense designs.
- Applying SI/PI best practices in schematic design, PCB layout, stack-up definition, decoupling strategies, and grounding.
- Deep expertise in embedded hardware design, including MCU-based systems, motor control circuits, and power electronics, embedded firmware development/debugging for system integration, validation, and optimization
- Proven experience delivering embedded hardware designs from concept through production.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience supporting embedded development platforms or reference designs with broad customer adoption.
- Exposure to regulatory compliance and Global Market Access (GMA) requirements for global automotive markets.
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
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Shuhei Shinkai
CFO
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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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