Senior Staff Application Engineer

Renesas Performance Computing is seeking a skilled individual to join its Power Application Engineering team, focusing on advanced digital power management solutions. The role involves contributing to the development of industry-leading power management ICs, requiring a deep technical understanding of multiphase VR systems and collaboration across functional groups. The successful candidate will play a key role in product definition, business planning, and technical marketing, ensuring alignment with customer needs and market trends.

Responsibilities:

• Translate market understanding into product definition and market adoption.
• Support technical marketing through global customer visits to promote products and identify customer needs.
• Provide analysis to support marketing business plans, demonstrating the technical merit of Renesas solutions.
• Produce detailed Product Requirements Documents to guide design specifications.
• Collaborate with design engineering to resolve conflicts between requirements and business expectations.
• Participate in FPGA-based design prototyping to verify product features and functions.
• Assist in creating Applications Validation Plans to cover corner cases.
• Develop unique solutions to critical customer problems to create valuable IP.
• Support marketing with analysis to determine the monetary value of Intellectual Property.
• Interface with key ASIC suppliers to ensure alignment in product development.
• Provide deep technical support and training to enhance Renesas’s commercial success.

Qualifications:

• MS in Engineering or a technical equivalent.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in the power management industry.
• Experience with firmware-enabled products and large-scale application-specific integrated circuits in the data center market.
• Knowledge of multiphase DC/DC converters powering Intel/AMD/SoC systems.
• Experience with mixed-signal Integrated Circuits/System.
• Familiarity with digitally enabled power management products.
• Understanding of control loop theory and its application in power converters.
• Proficiency with lab equipment including network analyzers, oscilloscopes, and waveform generators.
• Experience with automation of lab testing.

Skills:

• Strong technical understanding of multiphase VR systems.
• Ability to work collaboratively across functional groups.
• Excellent communication skills for formal and direct interactions.
• Analytical skills for market and product analysis.
• Problem-solving skills for design and validation challenges.