Sr Staff Application Engineer

Job Description Role Overview

The Peripheral & Variant Lead is the technical leader for peripheral blocksets and device variant scaling within Renesas Hardware Support Packages. This role delivers high‑quality Simulink peripheral blocks (e.g., ADC, PWM, UART, CAN) using the foundation layer, and drives scalable enablement across MCU variants through automation, validation, and standardized architecture. The role ensures alignment with core dependencies and works closely with the foundation team to deliver production‑ready solutions.

• Lead development of peripheral blocksets (ADC, PWM, UART, CAN, etc.) leveraging foundation components and established integration patterns.
• Drive device variant augmentation, defining validation strategies and automation frameworks to scale across Renesas MCU families
• Define block architecture, coding standards, and integration patterns to ensure consistency, reusability, and long‑term maintainability.
• Review IO Builder / System Object implementations and optimize for performance, usability, and customer experience.
• Collaborate closely with the MW foundation team to maintain alignment with core dependencies and release compatibility.

• B. Tech/M. Tech in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Computer Engineering, or related field with 10+ years of experience in embedded systems with strong experience in peripheral driver development.
• Demonstrated experience building support packages / peripheral enablement frameworks at a semiconductor supplier or tools ecosystem team.
• Strong experience with MATLAB/Simulink and MBD concepts, including reusable modeling patterns and integration with code generation.
• Proven ability to design scalable architectures for device variant support, automation, and validation/regression testing.
• Senior Staff‑level technical leadership: architecture ownership, rigorous reviews, mentoring, and cross‑team influence.

• Experience creating custom blockset packages / peripheral libraries / MCAL / CDD for semiconductor solutions.
• Familiarity with IO Builder/System Object patterns and performance tuning in model‑based workflows.

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.

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 people and…