Application Engineer

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: degree in 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.