Senior Staff Electrical Engineer – Power IC

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

Renesas is a dynamic, multi-cultural technology company where employees learn, mentor, innovate and thrive. Renesas is extending our share in fast-growing data economy-related markets such as infrastructure and data center and strengthening our presence in the industrial/IOT and automotive segments. Our solutions drive products developed by major innovators around the world. Join us and build your future by being part of what’s next in electronics.

Seeking Senior Level Analog IC designers to join our Rad Hard IC design team in RTP, NC or PB, FL. The ideal candidate must have a proven track record of designing Analog and mixed signal IC in Precision Analog and Power Management applications. As a design team member, you will be asked to design innovative, high performance, highly profitable products targeted toward Space markets. Integrated circuits designed in this group will include state of the art ultra-low quiescent current 40V to 100V DC-DC switching converters, LDO's, multi-function power management circuits.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Participate in product definition working with marketing, applications, and customers.
• Apply your in-depth understanding of power process technologies, both existing and those under development, to design innovative power management products.
• Transistor level design of mixed-signal circuits for new and derivative power management products.
• Responsibility for managing program to achieve schedule objectives.
• Validation and debugging the products before transferring to production engineering.
• Interface with process, test, product, application, and marketing managers and engineers to successfully bring new products from initial concept through release to production.

Qualifications

• Thorough understanding of integrated analog circuit design.
• Thorough understanding of bipolar, BiCMOS, and BCD process technologies and circuit design techniques.
• Thorough understanding of large power transistor (bipolar and DMOS) design, layout, and robustness.
• Thorough understanding of various switch-mode power conversion topologies (BOOST & BUCK, various control methods, multiple-phase current sharing, etc.).
• Experienced with Cadence tools for analog design and mixed signal simulations
• Experience with behavioral top-level modeling and mixed signal verification methodology.
• Experience with analog/digital interfaces and digital buses.
• Experience with Radiation Hardened power management products highly desirable
• Experience with gate driver techniques -Understanding of control systems.
• Highly self-motivated and adaptable.
• MSEE with 10+ years or PhD with 8+ years (or BSEE with 15+ years) of relevant industry experience with a strong background in analog design and a proven record of successfully released Power Management products.

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 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, encour