Sr. Staff Engineer – Firmware​/Software Development

Job Description Role Overview

This role is responsible for technical leadership and execution of firmware and software development for the RH850 Motor Control and Automotive Application Platform.

The Sr. Staff Engineer serves as a software domain authority, driving architecture, implementation quality, and developer experience while enabling scalable, user‑friendly embedded development platforms.

• Lead firmware and software architecture, design, and implementation for RH850 motor control and automotive application platforms.
• Drive software technical decisions with focus on scalability, performance, maintainability, and developer usability.
• Own firmware/software execution from concept through validation, qualification support, and release readiness.
• Collaborate closely with hardware, systems, validation, and applications teams to ensure optimized hardware‑software integration.
• Contribute to SDKs, drivers, middleware, reference applications, and development tools enabling rapid customer adoption.
• Ensure firmware/software deliverables meet automotive quality, reliability, and robustness expectations.
• Identify and mitigate software‑related technical risks across platform development.
• Actively influence developer experience, documentation quality, and platform usability.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 10+ years of experience.
• Strong expertise in embedded firmware/software development for automotive or real‑time systems.
• Proven experience delivering production‑quality embedded software for MCU‑based platforms.
• Solid understanding of motor control software, real‑time systems, and embedded development workflows.
• Working knowledge (hands‑on preferred) of one or more host-side technology stacks, such as:
  • C/C++/ RTOS
  • C#/.NET / Python (automation/tools, GUIs, packaging)
  • UI frameworks such as Qt, WPF/WinUI, or equivalent
• Experience integrating host utilities with embedded targets over common interfaces (e.g., USB, UART, CAN/CAN‑FD, Ethernet) and ensuring reliability across OS environments.

• Experience with embedded firmware ecosystems such as AUTOSAR drivers.
• Experience building embedded development platforms or SDKs with broad adoption across the embedded engineering community.

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.

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