Sr Mgr, Application Engineering [SOCBD]

Renesas is seeking an experienced and dynamic Application Engineering Senior Manager to join our Automotive High Performance Compute (HPC) team. This role is pivotal in driving embedded system solutions and providing technical customer support for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), Autonomous Driving (AD), and Software-Defined Vehicles (SDV) within our SOC automotive product line. This high-impact position offers a unique opportunity to take on a leadership role, collaborating with global teams in SOC design, software development, system architecture, and product marketing. Join us to expand automotive SoC solutions in the rapidly growing field of automotive embedded processing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Optimize System Performance: Master complex automotive embedded systems architecture, including multiple OSs (Linux, QNX), real-time OS (RTOS), functional safety standards (ISO26262), and system-on-chip (SoC) with heterogeneous compute architecture.
• Collaborate and Innovate: Work closely with FAEs and key customers (Tier1 and OEMs) to analyze technical issues and requirements, ensuring our system solutions meet key performance needs.
• Lead and Drive: Lead the application engineering team to profile, analyze, and optimize system performance for automotive ADAS/AD systems on R-Car platforms.
• Enable Use-Cases and Benchmarks: Develop and benchmark new system use-cases on R-Car platforms, working with multiple hardware and software teams.
• Analyze Performance KPIs: Focus on ADAS/AD system use-cases such as Front Camera, Surround View, Parking, and Driver Monitoring Systems.
• Troubleshoot and Resolve: Collaborate with marketing, system architecture, field sales/FAE, and SW & HW design teams to identify and resolve performance issues, leading deep-dive debugging sessions.
• Develop Proof of Concept: Work with partners, global teams, and customers to develop state-of-the-art proof of concept projects.
• Support Field Teams: Provide support to field teams to generate opportunities and facilitate design-ins.
• Strategic Support: Assist senior leadership in driving improvements for automotive customers.

• Experience: 10+ years in automotive embedded ADAS/AD systems application engineering.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in programming languages such as C, C++, Java, and Python, with extensive experience in debugging techniques.
• Leadership: Strong ownership and leadership skills, capable of managing diverse global teams.
• Embedded Systems: Experience with embedded platforms, including low-level firmware, kernel, and user-space components, as well as ARMs, GPUs, ISPs, CNNs, and specialized hardware accelerators in embedded SoC systems.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to meet customer expectations.
• Continuous Improvement: Commitment to continual improvement in work policies and methodologies.
• Strategic Collaboration: Ability to collaborate with senior leadership to develop team objectives aligned with broader company strategy.
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.
• Innovation: Ability to propose and implement innovative solutions.
• Interpersonal Skills: Excellent interpersonal communication skills.

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 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.

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.