Staff Software Engineer
Renesas · Posted Oct 12
Semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries
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About the role
The software team within Renesas's SoC development organization builds customer-facing software for feature-rich hardware. The role spans software/firmware/hardware systems and involves interfacing with IC, firmware, cloud infrastructure, and product definition teams. The Staff Software Engineer will design, develop, test, and maintain software primarily using Java, Kotlin, and Python, and contribute to requirement gathering and code reviews.
What you will do
- Design, develop, test, and maintain software that meets the needs of both customers and internal teams
- Gather and drive clarity on software requirements from diverse groups including customers, application engineers, hardware, firmware and cloud infrastructure engineers
- Contribute to both existing and new projects, covering a broad range of languages and scope. We use Java, Kotlin and Python.
- Aid in code reviews for fellow team members, as required
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or computer engineering
- 9+ years of software development experience
- Technical expertise in cloud technologies like Java, python, Kotlin, Spring
- Assist in the upkeep of code quality, reusability, and continual code evaluation
- Investigate and apply new technologies to enhance the user experience
- Ability to design, develop, and troubleshoot software solutions using creative, unconventional approaches
- Strong understanding of Software Architecture and Design principles, Behavior-Driven Development and unit testing
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work across teams
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with Generative and Agentic AI for software development.
- Experience working with JavaScript, JavaFX or GUI development
- Understanding of DevOps including JIRA, Confluence and GitLab preferred
- Understanding of basic electronics, microcontroller programming and bus communication.
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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