Senior Manager​/Director, Emerging Applications & Technology Architecture

Renesas is seeking a visionary and highly influential Sr.Manager / Director of Emerging Applications & Technology Architecture to lead the exploration, definition, and commercialization of next-generation semiconductor-enabled system solutions.

In this role, you will guide a team of world-class architects focused on identifying and developing opportunities in emerging applications and disruptive technologies, including AI, robotics, autonomous systems, drones/UAVs, industrial automation, functional safety, edge intelligence, and other high-growth market segments.

You will serve as a strategic bridge between customers, ecosystem partners, product groups, and engineering organizations, transforming market opportunities into differentiated system solutions and future product requirements. Success in this role requires a combination of deep technical expertise, business acumen, leadership excellence, and the ability to influence across multiple organizations.

• Define and drive Renesas' system architecture strategy for emerging applications and emerging technologies.
• Identify, evaluate, and prioritize new market opportunities, technology trends, and high-growth application segments.
• Translate customer challenges, technology disruptions, and market requirements into actionable system architectures and solution roadmaps.
• Lead competitive benchmarking and technology assessments to identify capability gaps and future investment opportunities.
• Act as a thought leader internally and externally, representing Renesas at customer meetings, industry forums, ecosystem events, and technical conferences.

• Lead the development of system-level architectures and complete semiconductor-enabled solutions leveraging Renesas MCUs, MPUs, SoCs, analog, power, sensing, AI, and connectivity products.
• Drive hardware/software partitioning, system trade-off analysis, and technology selection to optimize performance, cost, scalability, security, and power efficiency.
• Oversee the development of system specifications, solution requirement documents, reference designs, proof-of-concepts, and demonstrations.
• Establish architecture methodologies, design standards, and best practices across multiple application domains.
• Ensure solutions address key requirements for reliability, safety, cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, and manufacturability.

• Partner closely with Product Groups to influence product roadmaps and future semiconductor requirements based on application and system-level insights.
• Support product definition activities by providing customer, system, and market requirements for next-generation products.
• Drive adoption of Renesas solutions through direct customer engagement, design-in support, and strategic co-development initiatives.
• Collaborate with solution marketing teams to define value propositions, messaging, and go-to-market strategies.

• Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of application and system architects.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous learning.
• Establish strong partnerships with strategic customers, technology partners, startups, universities, and research institutions to accelerate innovation.
• Promote knowledge sharing and architecture re-use across business units and regions.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives involving engineering, marketing, product management, sales, and ecosystem partners.

• Master's degree or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
• 12+ years of experience in semiconductor, embedded systems, system architecture, or technology development roles.
• 5+ years of leadership experience managing technical teams or senior engineering professionals.
• Proven track record in developing complex embedded systems and semiconductor-based solutions.
• Strong expertise in one or more emerging technology domains such as:
• Artificial Intelligence and Edge AI
• Robotics and Autonomous Systems
• Drones/UAVs
• Industrial Automation
• Functional Safety and Cybersecurity
• IoT and Connected Systems
• Experience with system-level architecture, hardware/software co-design, and multi-disciplinary solution development.
• Strong understanding of semiconductor technologies, embedded software, connectivity, sensing, power management, and edge computing.
• Excellent communication,…