Staff Application Engineer

Job Type: Permanent - Full Time

Travel Required: 0%

Remote Work Available: No

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 the 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.

The candidate will participate in Renesas' high-performance PMIC's entire product development cycle for industrial, infrastructure, and consumer power applications.

Primary responsibilities will include:

• customer support (including on-site support) to analyze, debug and resolve issues quickly.


• new silicon validation and characterization (hands-on work in the lab)


• developing technical documentation (e.g. datasheet, application notes, and design guidelines)


• design evaluation kits - schematic design, board layout, software/GUI development


• product promotion and design-in support, as well as support for sustaining products


• failure analysis support


• competitive analysis


• system level testing and characterization


• work closely with local and remote teams (FAEs, design, test/product engineering, marketing) to perform the tasks listed above

Requirements:

A self-motivated, passionate individual, comfortable delivering to a deadline in a fast-paced environment. Ability to analyze, debug, and solve a wide variety of problems. Understand the importance of customers and strive to provide timely support. Excellent knowledge and hands-on experience with operational amplifiers, analog/mixed-signal, and power management ICs topologies, circuits, and applications. Ability to create and maintain strong customer relationships, and to attend and actively engage in high-profile meetings with key customers. Work across time zones with a worldwide team. Take ownership of project tasks and responsibilities - plan and execute to meet project milestones, deadlines, and customer deliverables.

• Prior experience as an application engineer in the semiconductor industry or board-level electronic design engineer


• Understanding of analog, mixed-signal, and power electronics and systems


• Excellent verbal and written communication skills


• Understand DC/DC buck, boost, buck-boost, charge pump, and LDO converter topologies


• Very good knowledge of control theory, closed-loop compensation, stability analysis, phase margin, etc.


• Proficient with product characterization equipment such as oscilloscopes, power supplies, electronic load, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, and function generators.


• Able to occasionally use soldering equipment and have knowledge of hand assembly with SMT devices


• PCB design (OrCad, Cadence) for switching regulators and high-speed amplifier IC evaluation and demonstration boards: circuit design, schematic capture, layout, component selection


• Programming and laboratory automation experience (e.g. C/C , VB6, VB.NET, LabVIEW, Python)


• Circuit modeling and simulation tools -SIMPLIS/SIMetrix, Cadence, Spice


• Familiarity with multi-phase DC/DC regulator architectures is highly desirable


• Familiarity with analog circuits and/or IC design including op-amps, DACs, ADCs, and LDOs is desirable

Education

• BSEE 6 years, or MSEE 4 years of industry experience in power management IC or related applications engineering

Renesas Electronics America is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to celebrating diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.