Sr Manager-Application Engineering

Role Overview

This role is responsible for defining, developing, and executing the RH850 Motor Control and Automotive Application Platform, with user experience, quality, and customer value as central design principles.

The Senior Manager will act as the platform execution owner, driving alignment across global cross‑functional teams and ensuring predictable delivery from concept through market release. This role requires strong technical depth in automotive applications combined with program leadership, platform decision‑making, and stakeholder management.

Key Responsibilities (Compressed Version)

• Own the RH850 Motor Control and Automotive Application Platform strategy and roadmap, with user experience and customer value as core design principles.
• Drive platform‑level technical and business decisions, leveraging deep automotive application knowledge to position Renesas solutions as the best fit for target use cases.
• Lead end‑to‑end execution of platform development from concept through sample release, qualification, ramp readiness, and market launch.
• Align and motivate global cross‑functional teams (Design, Marketing, Systems & Applications, Validation, Product & Test Engineering, Firmware/Software, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Quality) toward shared goals and flawless execution.
• Manage program planning, tracking, and Project Gate Reviews, ensuring process discipline, schedule predictability, budget adherence, and execution efficiency.
• Proactively identify and mitigate technical, schedule, quality, and supply chain risks, driving disciplined, data‑driven decision‑making and positive ROI.
• Serve as a clear communicator to stakeholders, providing structured updates on milestones, risks, qualification status, and release readiness.
• Champion quality, standardization, and scalability, continuously improving execution discipline while delivering a best‑in‑class end‑user development experience.

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Electronics, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• Strong technical background in automotive electronics, motor control systems, or embedded automotive platforms.
• Proven experience leading complex, cross‑functional product or platform development programs from concept through production release.
• Demonstrated ability to drive platform‑level technical and business decisions, balancing user experience, quality, time‑to‑market, and cost.
• Strong program management, execution rigor, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast‑paced, global environments.

Preferred Qualifications.

• • Experience building embedded development platforms with broad adoption across the embedded engineering community, emphasizing usability, scalability, and developer experience.
  • Experience handling Regulatory Compliance Certifications and Global Market Access (GMA) requirements for embedded electronic products.

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.
 
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 design and develop sustainable, power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow, ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’     
 
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 innovative products and solutions to meet our global customers' evolving needs and help make people’s lives easier, safe and secure. 

• 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 the first day.    

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 supporting 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 law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.

We have adopted a hybrid model that gives employees the ability to work remotely two days a week while ensuring that we come together as a team in the office the rest of the time. The designated in-office days are Tuesday through Thursday for innovation, collaboration and continuous learning.