Senior Manager Electrical Engineering

As part of Renesas’s Performance Computing Power Business, you will oversee the development of our next-generation ICs for low-voltage, high-current, power applications.  This is a high-profile position in which you will lead the proliferation of innovative digital power techniques across the Performance Computing Power product roadmap.

We are seeking a Sr. Design Manager to oversee the architecture, design, and verification of digital power IC’s for AI, Server, and emerging high-performance computing product spaces.  You will manage the resources and activities through the full design cycle which spans product concept through production release.  

Responsibilities: 

• Synthesize technical goals from business goals
• Drive team to deliver on cost, performance and time-to-market targets.
• 360-degree management
  • Advise and report to upper management
    • Support business plans: schedule, resource allocation, development cost and product unit cost
    • Track and report project status and advise on resource needs
    • Identify opportunities for improvements in development cycle times and product quality through resource sharing, staff training, and process improvements. 
    • Advocate for corporate resources that support your products and your team
  • Support your team
    • Guide silicon process selection and IC architecture: quantify trade-offs in, and partitioning functions among, analog and digital hardware and firmware
    • Drive SoC architecture definition: quantifying trade-offs in, and partitioning functions among, analog and digital hardware and firmware
    • Contribute to digital innovation and replacement of analog power systems through mixed-signal design
    • Oversee design processes: design, verification, tape out, and validation; first-time-right, on-time release
    • Deal with problems.
    • Identify and adopt tools and methodologies for ongoing improvements in development cycle times.
    • Signoff verification coverage and spec compliance.
    • Guide skill development and career path of design staff.
  • Engage with peers and other disciplines
    • Seek and support IP and methodology sharing with other design teams
    • Advocate technology and IP needs to keep Marketing product roadmap competitive
    • Define products and schedules with Marketing, Applications, Test, Product Engineering and Program Managers
    • Support test and app’s engineering: DFT, documentation, HW design, ATE-bench-sim correlations
    • Signoff validation, characterization, and production release with Product and Applications Engineering
    • Provide design support for yield, quality, reliability, and performance issues on released products

• Education: BSEE, MSEE, or related fields.
• Minimum 12-15 years of experience in the semiconductor industry.
• Demonstrated track record of leading the development of commercially successful power IC products
• Working experience with Real-Time DSP Hardware design and microarchitecture.
• Flexibility is required. We specify products a year ahead of first CPU silicon.  OEM and ODM definitions and schedules change dramatically from business plan to first silicon and our priorities flow directly from those engagements. 
  • You must stay continually engaged with Marketing and negotiate priorities for the optimal business outcome.
  • You must buffer the stress that mid-course changes impose on your team.
• Strong communication skills and broad technical skills are essential. 
• This is a highly visible role in which the organization will look to you as the guide for adopting digital power techniques. 

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 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 remain agile and fearless as we accelerate our growth, encouraging everyone to play an active role with an entrepreneurial mindset and accountability.     
 
At Renesas, you can: 

• Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.  

• Make a real impact by developing automotive, industrial, infrastructure, IoT, and sustainable products and solutions to meet our customers’ evolving needs and help people and communities thrive tomorrow.  

• Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system, including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups, will help you excel from Day 1.    
   

Are you ready to own your success and make your mark?  
 

Join Renesas. Let’s Shape the Future together.  

Renesas Electronics 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.