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Job Description
As a Principal System Engineer for our Performance Computing Power team, you will be a key player driving product and system definition, focused on cutting edge power solutions for server, infrastructure and AI processor/SOC applications. Excellent communication skills and technical knowledge are required as you will engage cross-functionally with diverse teams including systems, IC design, marketing, validation and applications engineering. Renesas is an industry leader in high-performance multiphase power. Through collaboration with processor/SOC partners and cloud/infrastructure customers, you will support the development of the highest performance digital multiphase DC-DC power converter products in the industry.
This role requires multi-disciplinary experience, combining deep understanding of system-level challenges with knowledge of Renesas VR hardware, firmware and software implementation. You will use your understanding of system-level considerations from both the CPU vendors and the cloud/infrastructure customers to steer VR architecture and product definition. You will identify the critical avenues of long-term value creation to support building a durable long-term business.
Key responsibilities include:
• Interface with Renesas systems engineers, partners and customers to understand big-scope perspective on challenges and value drivers.
• Translate customer system requirements, including VR performance, configuration and control, into design requirements.
• Build critical collateral including product requirements, use cases and system API definition.
• Work with marketing and design to quantify tradeoffs between features and schedules.
Success in this position requires an ability to translate market understanding to product definition and ultimately proven through market adoption. An ability to understand nuance in customer demands and motivate team members accordingly is required. Excellent communication skills and technical understanding will allow for the influence across functional disciplines required to succeed.
Qualifications
Requires deep technical strength in high performance power management related to CPU’s and other high current ASIC’s.
• A minimum of 15-20 years of relevant semiconductor and systems experience.
• MS degree in engineering (EE – power electronics preferred), with PhD degree preferred.
• Experience with multiphase DC/DC converters powering Intel/AMD/ARM systems.
• Proficiency in Python, C or other programming language.
• Excellent written communications skills.
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.
Additional Information
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.
