Sr Staff engineer- Hardware Development
Listed on 2026-02-18
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Engineering
Systems Engineer, Hardware Engineer
Job Description
Role Overview
This role is responsible for technical leadership and execution of hardware development for the RH850 Motor Control and Automotive Application Platform.
The Sr. Staff Engineer serves as a hardware domain expert, driving architecture, design quality, and technical execution while collaborating closely with systems, firmware/software, validation, and platform leadership teams.
Key Responsibilities- Lead hardware architecture, design, and implementation for RH850 motor control and automotive application platforms.
- Drive hardware technical decisions, ensuring robustness, scalability, cost effectiveness, and alignment with platform requirements.
- Own hardware execution from concept, design, and validation through qualification and production readiness.
- Collaborate closely with systems, firmware/software, validation, and product engineering teams to ensure seamless hardware‑software integration.
- Support regulatory compliance, qualification, and Global Market Access (GMA) readiness for hardware deliverables.
- Identify and mitigate hardware‑related technical risks, ensuring predictable execution and high quality.
- Contribute to reference designs, development platforms, and documentation to enable broad customer adoption.
- Act as a technical mentor, influencing best practices and raising the bar for hardware design excellence.
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Electronics, or related field with 10+ years of experience.
- Hands‑on experience with Signal Integrity (SI) and Power Integrity (PI) analysis for high‑speed digital, mixed‑signal, and power‑dense designs. Applying SI/PI best practices in schematic design, PCB layout, stack‑up definition, decoupling strategies, and grounding.
- Deep expertise in embedded hardware design, including MCU‑based systems, motor control circuits, and power electronics.
- Proven experience delivering embedded hardware designs from concept through production.
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.
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- Experience supporting embedded development platforms or reference designs with broad customer adoption.
- Exposure to regulatory compliance and Global Market Access (GMA) requirements for global automotive markets.
Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose ‘
To Make Our Lives Easier
.’ As the industry’s leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system‑level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power.
With a diverse team of over 21,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable, power‑efficient solutions today that help…
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