Senior Semiconductor Research Engineer

Location: Raymond

What Makes a Honda, is Who makes a Honda
Honda has a clear vision for the future, and it's a joyful one. We are looking for individuals with the skills, courage, persistence, and dreams that will help us reach our future-focused goals. At our core is innovation. Honda is constantly innovating and developing solutions to drive our business with record success. We strive to be a company that serves as a source of "power" that supports people around the world who are trying to do things based on their own initiative and that helps people expand their own potential.

To this end, Honda strives to realize "the joy and freedom of mobility" by developing new technologies and an innovative approach to achieve a "zero environmental footprint."

We are looking for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, continuous improvement values, and a strong work ethic to join our team.

If your goals and values align with Honda's, we want you to join our team to Bring the Future!

Job Purpose

• The Center of Excellence is seeking a research engineer to advance semiconductor sensing across R&D programs, focusing on automotive technologies such as image, radar, lidar, inertial, and environmental sensors.
• The role involves conducting technology sensing, assessment, evaluation, benchmarking, and translating device and component level insights into system level value for automotive and intelligent mobility applications. The
  individual will collaborate closely with technical leadership, internal cross functional teams, and external partners.
• The position contributes to building internal expertise, strengthening cross functional alignment, and supporting the CoE's mission to grow organization's long term semiconductor capability.

Key Accountabilities

• Assist in advanced research projects of emerging technologies utilizing Agile methodologies to prove hypothesis and define value with speed. Effectively utilize technical project resources
  while maintaining leading knowledge of state-of-the-art principles and theories.
• Assist senior and principal researchers in sensing for NA market and consumer trends, extract emerging technologies, and propose research initiatives
• Compile and prepare sensing results and conclusions for internal stakeholders in support of setting technical direction and strategy.
• Report results of sensing results to department leadership, division leadership, and other internal partners to explain how findings may impact future product offerings.
• Support technical teams, manage project timelines, and ensure deliverables meet quality standards.
• Monitor emerging technologies utilizing Agile methodologies to prove hypothesis and define value with speed.

Qualifications, Experience, and Skills

• Minimum Education al
  
  Qualifications:
  
  Must have a Bachelor level degree in Engineering or a related STEM field.
• Minimum work experience:
  At least 3 or more years of relevant industry experience
• Other job-specifc skills
  Knowledge of the semiconductor industry: chip architectures, open-source IP/ISA, CPU/GPU/NPU, FPGAs, SoCs and heterogenous integration.
  Experience in digital / analog / mixed signal chip design is desirable
  Familiarity with Assembly language
  Industry standard EDA tools experience
  Experience in Verilog / System Verilog or similar HDL
  Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities
  Excellent communication skills and ability to produce presentation documents
  Ability to appropriately communicate and share technical findings with stakeholders, including those without specialized technical expertise
  Demonstrated capability to engage in research activities and analytical problem solving, with an interest in examining existing approaches and contributing to continuous improvement efforts
  Ability to learn new topics of applicable principles to design and manufacturing challenges
  Working knowledge of Agile processes and methodologies
  Design experiments to test hypothesis and prove them out
  Make decisions, under senior staff supervision, bounded by the research mission and understanding of the company business model
  Ability to efficiently manage resources to achieve project initiatives and schedule
• Desirables:
  Any prior work or research…