Staff Application Engineer

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.

About the team: Renesas Electronics is a dynamic, multi-cultural tech company where employees can learn, mentor and thrive. Renesas brings together the strong financial foundation of a multi-billion dollar global operation and the flexibility and velocity of a smaller organization. We are developing technologies for the latest advances in AI, datacenters, networking, mobile computing, secured connected devices, autonomous driving, smart homes and factories and more. Our solutions are at the heart of products developed by the major innovators around the world. Join us and be part of what’s next in electronics.

This is an opportunity to join a Performance Core Power Applications Taiwan Team with Renesas Electronics Performance Computing Power product line. As part of one of Renesas’s most prominent Power Product Groups, you will help develop, qualify, design-in, and support next-generation IC products for applications such as AI, Server and Networking.

Job Description

What we need:

The Performance Core Power Applications team is seeking an application engineer who is excited about working on multiphase core power solution architecture for processor/SOC applications. You will support the development of pace-setting digital multiphase DC-DC power converter products with Renesas’ advanced control architectures. Excellent communication skills and technical knowledge are required as you will work across geographies both internally and in support of our global customer base. We’re looking for someone eager to learn, ready to hit the ground running, and help define the new frontier of High Power Core products. If you like problem-solving, multiphase core power technology and enjoy hands-on engineering teamwork that spans across different geographies, we’d like to hear from you.

Staff Applications Engineer, Digital Multiphase Overview:

Seeking an individual to work on Low Power Core Solution. A successful candidate will have strong desire and ability to work in a technically challenging environment with other top performers to continue Renesas’s development of industry leading power management IC’s

This is an opportunity to contribute at a high level to the technical and commercial success of the corporation. To succeed, you will need to combine deep technical understanding of power management, Renesas products and customer systems. You will have critical input to product definition and business planning activities. Your ability to work across functional groups through formal communication and direct interaction is critical to success. The position requires significant technical experience beyond traditional power management topics due to the embedded SOC nature of the products. Experience with firmware-enabled products and powering ASIC’s (Intel/AMD/Nvidia/Broadcom etc.) is desired

Responsibilities:

• Interface with FAE’s or customer directly to provide design in support.
• Participate in validation activities to demonstrate product performance and capability.
• Development and validate evaluation board
• Write product datasheet, application notes, user manual and other documents.
• Develop valuable IP by finding unique solutions to critical customer problems. 
• Interface with key ASIC suppliers (Intel/ AMD/ Nvidia/Bcom etc) to understand critical requirements.

Success in this position requires an ability to ensure that product architecture can deliver on market performance demands. An ability to understand nuance in customer demands and motivate team members accordingly is required. Excellent communication skills and technical understanding are required to succeed.

Qualifications

• BS+10 or MS+7 in Engineering or technical equivalent in the power management industry
• Experience with multiphase DC/DC converters powering large scale ASIC’s.
• Experience with digitally enabled power management products.
• Understanding of control loop theory and its application in power converters
• Proficiency with a full complement of lab equipment including network analyzers, oscilloscopes and waveform generators. Experience with automation of lab testing.
• Proficiency in Python, C or other programming language
• Proficiency in data analysis using Excel or JMP
• Must possess excellent communications skills, both oral and written.

Additional Information

Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled

This company is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, gender, disability or protected veteran status

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 www.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 supporting 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, disabilities, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.