Principal Architect/Product Definer

Company Description

Renesas is one of the top global semiconductor companies in the world. We strive to develop a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter world, and our goal is to make every endpoint intelligent by offering product solutions in the automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT markets. Our robust product portfolio includes world leading MCUs, SoCs, analog and power products, plus Winning Combination solutions that curate these complementary products. We are a key supplier to the world’s leading manufacturers of electronics you rely on every day; you may not see our products, but they are all around you.

Renesas employs roughly 21,000 people in more than 30 countries worldwide. As a global team, our employees actively embody the Renesas Culture, our guiding principles based on five key elements: Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial. Renesas believes in, and has a commitment to, diversity and inclusion, with initiatives and a leadership team dedicated to its resources and values. At Renesas, we want to build a sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. Join us and build your future by being part of what’s next in electronics and the world.

Job Description

As Principal Architect/Product Definer for Low Power Core team, you will be a key player driving innovation, defining next-generation product roadmaps, delivering best in class solutions addressing power efficiency and density challenges and writing product specifications (PRDs) in Client computing and related applications. You will engage cross functionally with a diverse team including IC design, Applications, Marketing, and other engineering teams to turn good ideas into reality.

This role combines deep knowledge of system level challenges from a customer perspective with knowledge of VR system technologies, IC design techniques, power architectures, trade-offs between competing priorities and others to arrive at optimal definitions for new products. You will use your understanding of system level considerations from the CPU vendor/customer to steer VR architecture and product roadmaps. Once validated and approved for execution, you will also have responsibility for capturing the ideas into a PRD that will be used as the guideline for the execution team. You will identify critical avenues of long-term value creation to support building a durable long-term business.

Location is flexible.

Key responsibilities include:

• Interface with customer systems engineers to understand big-scope perspective on challenges and value drivers.
• Analyze various VR approaches to determine how they fit in the big picture from a customers point of view.
• Build critical collateral to evangelize proposals and support customer engagement.
• Directly support top tier customer engagements to gain consensus on proposals and help drive them to revenue.
• Maintain key customer relationships to enable early market visibility.
• Be up-to speed on new innovations across the industry.

Qualifications

• This role requires deep technical strength in high performance power management related to CPU’s and other high current ASIC’s. 
• Broad technical capability/exposure will be combined with excellent technical communication skills.
• Typical requirements are a minimum of 15-20 years of relevant semiconductor and systems experience. 
• MS degree in engineering (EE – power electronics desired), with PhD degree preferred.

Additional Information

The expected annual pay range for this position is $180,000 - $270,000. This position is also eligible for STI bonus opportunities and commission pay. Please note that final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience, and skillset of the candidate.

Renesas offers a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, and pet insurance. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive company-paid life insurance and AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as paid sick time, paid holidays, and accrued paid vacation. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.

Renesas Electronics Corporation empowers a safer, smarter and more sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. The leading global provider of microcontrollers, Renesas combines our expertise in embedded processing, analog, power and connectivity to deliver complete semiconductor solutions. These Winning Combinations accelerate time to market for automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT applications, enabling billions of connected, intelligent devices that enhance the way people work and live. Learn more at renesas.com.
Renesas’ mission, To Make Our Lives Easier, is underpinned by our company culture, TAGIE. TAGIE stands for Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative and Entrepreneurial. Our goal is to embed this unique culture in everything we do to succeed as a company and create trust with our diverse colleagues, customers and stakeholders.
Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to celebrating diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.