Validation Engineer
Renesas · Posted Oct 27
Semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries
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About the role
The Post-Silicon Validation team within the Performance Computing Power Division validates silicon for industry-leading integrated circuits enabling high-power, high-efficiency power management systems, focusing on test coverage, measurement accuracy, repeatability, and automation. The role sits in a multidisciplinary global development team working on analog, digital, mixed-signal, and power management ICs. As a Validation Engineer, you will build lab test setups, design evaluation hardware, write Python measurement scripts, analyze data, and work with Design, Applications, Product Engineering, and Quality teams to resolve silicon and system-level issues ahead of production.
What you will do
- Validate analog, digital, mixed-signal, and power management ICs against electrical, functional, and performance specifications.
- Prepare advanced laboratory test setups for complex silicon evaluation.
- Contribute to the design of custom evaluation boards and supporting hardware for silicon characterization.
- Develop measurement scripts using Python.
- Perform data acquisition, statistical analysis, result correlation, preparation of detailed technical reports and silicon evaluation summaries.
- Evaluate silicon performance at device, board, and system level, identifying, documenting, and tracking silicon and application issues.
- Collaborate closely with Design, Applications, Firmware, Product Engineering, and Quality teams to investigate and resolve silicon and system-level bugs.
- Contribute innovative ideas that enhance validation quality, automation, productivity, and time-to-market.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related discipline with about 2 years of work-related experience.
- Good level of expertise in lab automation, ability to propose improvements to existing measurements techniques.
- Proficiency with Python programming with particular use for lab automation hardware environments
- Basic knowledge of power management applications in consumer electronic
- Board level analog and digital circuit design expertise for PCB schematic creation
- Strong analytical and debugging skills with a systematic approach to problem solving.
- Self-motivated, proactive, and able to manage priorities while delivering high-quality results under demanding project schedules.
- Goals-oriented and able to deliver on-time results under tight schedules
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively within international cross-functional teams.
- Concise and precise communication, internal and with customers
- Cross cultural awareness and sensitivity within multisite and multicultural environments
- Flexible to undertake occasional international travel
- Excellent command of verbal and written English
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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