Senior Staff Application Engineer - Embedded Systems and Peripheral Development

Sr Staff Application Engineer

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

Role Overview

The Peripheral & Variant Lead is the technical leader for peripheral blocksets and device variant scaling within Renesas Hardware Support Packages. This role delivers high‑quality Simulink peripheral blocks (e.g., ADC, PWM, UART, CAN) using the foundation layer, and drives scalable enablement across MCU variants through automation, validation, and standardized architecture. The role ensures alignment with core dependencies and works closely with the foundation team to deliver production‑ready solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead development of peripheral blocksets (ADC, PWM, UART, CAN, etc.) leveraging foundation components and established integration patterns.
• Drive device variant augmentation, defining validation strategies and automation frameworks to scale across Renesas MCU families
• Define block architecture, coding standards, and integration patterns to ensure consistency, reusability, and long‑term maintainability.
• Review IO Builder / System Object implementations and optimize for performance, usability, and customer experience.
• Collaborate closely with the MW foundation team to maintain alignment with core dependencies and release compatibility.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in embedded systems with strong experience in peripheral driver development.
• Demonstrated experience building support packages / peripheral enablement frameworks at a semiconductor supplier or tools ecosystem team.
• Strong experience with MATLAB/Simulink and MBD concepts, including reusable modeling patterns and integration with code generation.
• Proven ability to design scalable architectures for device variant support, automation, and validation/regression testing.
• Senior Staff‑level technical leadership: architecture ownership, rigorous reviews, mentoring, and cross‑team influence.

Added Advantage

• Experience creating custom blockset packages / peripheral libraries / MCAL / CDD for semiconductor solutions.
• Familiarity with IO Builder/System Object patterns and performance tuning in model‑based workflows.

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 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 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 global customers' evolving needs and help make people’s lives easier, safe and secure. 

• Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system, including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups, will help you excel from the first day.    

Are you ready to own your success and make your mark?  

Join Renesas. Let’s Shape the Future together.  

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.

We have adopted a hybrid model that gives employees the ability to work remotely two days a week while ensuring that we come together as a team in the office the rest of the time. The designated in-office days are Tuesday through Thursday for innovation, collaboration and continuous learning.

Experience Level

Senior Level