Assistant Mgr, Application Engineering

To manage an Applications team including assigning tasks, reviewing work, and driving best practise. You will be responsible for the personal and technical development of your team, whilst working with the Applications Manager to support the planning and exicution of projects and resource allocation. You will act as the conduit between other design teams, PMO and relevant corporate engineering functions to support team objectives.

• Delegate project tasks appropriately, ensuring the entire team follows procedures and applications and evaluation practises that are required by internal methodology guidelines.
• Mentor direct reports, giving appropriate guidance and support, and reviewing technical and behavioural performance regularly.
• Support interview process, onboarding, off boarding, performance management and training for team.
• Contribute to resource planning meetings, making suggestions to Applications Manager in terms of best use of resource within your team.
• Proactively lead analysis and revision of applications and evaluation timescale estimations, ensuring the Engineering Leadership team is well informed of all revisions.
• Responsible for continual personal and professional development of all team members.
• Proactively identify and drive improvements and additions to evaluation methods and capabilities.
• Take a proactive approach to driving own development plan, utilizing team members and internal development opportunities.
• Involvement in new process setups.
• Silicon validation and technical leadership of integrated circuit evaluation projects.
• Manage physical silicon device evaluation at chip and board level, including creation of all necessary evaluation collateral prior to receipt of silicon.
• Coordinate development of scripts in a Python environment to enable device measurement and automation for validation and production ATE support.
• Build strong links with the Design Engineering team to resolve any issues found during the bench verification and customer design-in phase.
• Lead interface with Test, Product and Quality teams as needed to support device issues and production ramp.
• Collaborate with global PMIC teams, sharing best practise and ensuring alignment in methods where possible.
• Any ad hoc tasks as deemed reasonable by your manager.

• Typically 8 – 12 years experience in electronics in one of the following areas: wireless handheld, specifically audio and power management; consumer displays; automotive body electronics
• Software skills sufficient to enable measurement automation
• Ability to supervise and mentor team members
• Ability to select most appropriate methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for both maximizing results and solving technical issues
• Ability to solve complex issues in creative, commercial and effective ways
• Able to lead & co-ordinate significant projects, programs and business initiatives with creativity and ingenuity
• Allocates resources, monitors work output, ensures delivery of targets of the team
• Outward looking, positive role model with leadership skills
• Cross cultural awareness and sensitivity
• Results-oriented and able to deliver on-time under tight schedule pressure
• Ability to work both independently and part of a team
• Flexible to undertake occasional international travel at short notice
• Excellent command of verbal and written English
• Concise and precise communication and customer skills within multi-site and multi-cultural environment

Desirable:

• Experience of the design and/or evaluation of switching converters, controllers: Buck/Boost/Chargers. Linear regulators /chargers
• Knowledge of portable power management
• Understanding of IC design, production, test, silicon quality testing and failure analysis

Renesas Electronics Corporation empowers a safer, smarter and more sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. The leading global provider of microcontrollers, Renesas combines our expertise in embedded processing, analog, power and connectivity to deliver complete semiconductor solutions. These Winning Combinations accelerate time to market for automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT applications, enabling billions of connected, intelligent devices that enhance the way people work and live. Learn more at www.renesas.com. 

Renesas’ mission, To Make Our Lives Easier, is underpinned by our company culture, TAGIE. TAGIE stands for Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative and Entrepreneurial. Our goal is to embed this unique culture in everything we do to succeed as a company and create trust with our diverse colleagues, customers and stakeholders.

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