Senior Staff Product Marketing Specialist

Job Description

As a System Staff / Senior System Staff Field Applications Engineer (FAE) you will play a major role in the expansion of our market-leading digital products (MCUs & SoCs), analog and power by providing outstanding application engineering support to our customers. You will also play a key role in the definition of the next generation of Renesas Automotive Products working closely to the customer engineering teams and to Renesas application engineering and marketing teams.

Responsibilities: 

• Drive the design-in activities of the complete product portfolio in automotive applications such as IVI, ADAS, xEV, Vehicle Controls etc. working with Automotive OEM customers.
• Define new products in close cooperation with our innovative customers and our internal technical marketing and applications teams.
• Act as a technical interface and consult our customers during the development of all automotive applications with particular focus on OEMs.
• Derive customer system requirements and market trends to develop system value propositions together with internal interfaces (Product Marketers, Application Engineers, System Architects).
• Build a good understanding of different product architectures and partner ecosystem to suggest/guide customers, to arrive at an optimal system design.
• Actively manage projects together with the Sales and Marketing departments to achieve design-in targets for the complete Renesas automotive product portfolio.
• Establish and maintain excellent relationships with the customer engineering departments with particular focus on OEMs.
• Proactively connect with global cross-functional teams, expand your internal network, and share your experience to drive global business expansion.
• Lead technical discussions with System Architects and Application Engineering experts to jointly define application roadmaps and product technical requirements.
• Collaborate internally with Application Engineers and Product Marketers and externally with local and global partners to develop documentation (fighting guides, application notes, whitepapers) and system demonstrators combining software and hardware.
• Perform measurements in our laboratory within the scope of actual customer projects.
• Present Renesas’ technologies, products, and applications in technical seminars.

Qualifications

• Education: Electrical / Electronic Engineering or similar field of studies.
• Minimum 10 years of related work experience, especially including 5+ years of experience in automotive applications.
• Working experience as Field or Application Engineer for Microcontroller and SoCs is preferred.
• Understand automotive system technical requirements and propose optimized products and solutions.
• Profound knowledge about semiconductors including SoC, MCU, Analog & Power products.
• Experience with OS / Frameworks (Linux, QNX, AUTOSAR, RTOS).
• Proficient in multi-threaded programming and middleware solution development in different OS environments. Strong in fundamentals of IPC and OS concepts.
• Working knowledge on Automotive Functional Safety and Cybersecurity concepts.
• Proficient in Power and Thermal management at system level.
• Experience in Vehicle Architecture / Networks design.
• Hands-on system bring-up, testing, and debugging skills.
• Hands-on experience with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and other standard lab equipment.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Additional Information

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 22,000 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 glob