Senior Staff Engineer, IC Architect

Job Title

Senior Staff Engineer, IC Architect

Role Summary

Lead and manage the system and applications team to define next-generation power-management products and support customers in India. The role combines product definition, technical leadership, customer support, and coordination with global engineering, sales, and marketing teams.

Focus areas include power management product roadmaps, system-level specifications, customer design-in support, FPGA prototyping, silicon evaluation, and building a high-performing team.

Experience Level

Senior — requires significant experience; the posting specifies 12+ years in the power management space.

Responsibilities

The role is responsible for product definition, customer engagement, technical support, and leading a team to deliver power-management solutions.

• Identify market opportunities and collaborate with marketing, business management, and sales.
• Support sales/FAEs with design-in assistance, circuit review, debugging, troubleshooting, and field-return analysis.
• Define product and family roadmaps; translate market and customer needs into product requirements and specifications.
• Produce detailed Product Requirements and design specification documents and resolve trade-offs with design engineering.
• Participate in FPGA-based prototyping and board-level silicon evaluation according to validation plans.
• Provide deep technical training and create customer-facing collateral to support commercial success.
• Drive system modeling requirements and ensure coverage of corner cases in validation plans.
• Recruit, hire, and manage the necessary team to meet business needs.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills, experience, and behavioral traits required to perform the role.

• Must-have: 12+ years of experience in power management with semiconductor companies, including product definition and customer engagements.
• Must-have: Deep understanding of power management applications and products and product ownership mentality.
• Must-have: Hands-on lab experience in debugging, probing, and characterizing circuits and silicon; familiarity with power supplies, electronic loads, oscilloscopes, spectrum/network analyzers.
• Must-have: Board-level analog and digital circuit design expertise and PCB schematic/layout skills; experience with PCB CAD tools.
• Must-have: Understanding and application of control loop theory for power converters; experience with circuit simulation tools such as SIMPLIS.
• Must-have: Programming proficiency in C and Python and experience automating lab testing and data analysis (Excel/JMP).
• Nice-to-have: Experience with FEA tools for thermal/electrical/magnetic analysis and familiarity with AECQ, IATF, or ISO26262 (FuSa) basics.
• Behavioral: Strong communication and presentation skills, ability to work in fast-paced/ambiguous environments, and aptitude for building and motivating teams.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electronics Engineering or a related discipline. (Degree specified in source.)

About the Company

Company: Renesas

Headquarters: Hitachinaka, Japan

Renesas is a global leader in embedded semiconductor solutions, providing high-quality products across automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT sectors. With over 22,000 employees in more than 30 countries, the company focuses on scalable solutions that enhance user experience and drive innovation while committed to sustainability and energy efficiency.