Senior Manager Electrical Engineering

Company Description

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.

Job Description

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

Qualifications

• 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. 
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