Director, System & Application Engineering - Power & Analog

Job Description

 

We are seeking a talented and motivated person to join as Director of system and application team to own and define next generation products and support customer for India for India business division with focus on power products. 

A successful candidate will have strong desire and ability to work in a technically challenging and entrepreneurial environment. To succeed, candidate will need to combine deep technical understanding of power management, Renesas products and customer systems. You will engage in product definition as well as customer support activities. Your ability to work across functional groups through formal communication and direct interaction is critical to success. The position requires significant technical experience in power management as well as understanding of firmware-enabled and embedded system (attach to SoC) products. The candidate will work closely with management, sales and engineers based in India while coordinating efforts with a global team. 

Responsibilities 

·        Identify market opportunities and collaborate with Marketing team, Business Division management, and Sales to exploit these opportunities 

·        Support marketing/Sales/FAEs to facilitate the design-in of our products as well as providing technical assistance to address customer technical questions such as customer circuit design review, debug, troubleshooting and field return analysis. 

·        Use knowledge gained to support marketing business plan including TAM/ SAM / SOM) activities by providing analysis demonstrating  technical merit of Renesas solutions vs competing solutions. 

·        Provide deep technical support and training to advance Renesas’s commercial success. Requires ability to translate complex ideas or implementations to a level suitable for less experienced audiences such as customers or field sales staff. 

·        Work with the broader marketing team and design team to develop customer collateral that raises the company's profile 

·        Understand market and customer requirements and define product requirements and improve product roadmaps 

·        Define product family roadmap 

·        Produce technically detailed Product Requirements and / or design specifications documents. 

·        Work with design engineering when conflicts arise between requirements, capabilities and business expectations. 

·        Interpret device level system use cases and requirements and translate to product specifications while ensuring specifications meet customer needs by working with customers and internal teams 

·        Compare of design trade-offs and IP choices to achieve competitive product specifications 

·        Participate in FPGA based design prototyping to verify key features and functions will meet expectations. Work with design and other staff to find solutions when targets are not met. 

·        Guide staff in creation of Applications Validation Plans by using experience to ensure corner cases are covered 

·        Perform physical silicon device evaluation at board level based on defined evaluation plans, including understanding the silicon behavior and functionality in detail. 

·        Drive system modelling requirement 

·        Support hiring and managing the necessary team as per business need over time 

 

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Qualifications

 

·        Comfort and ability to collaborate and be effective in an entrepreneurial (fast-paced and ambiguous) environment 

·        Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills and comfort in presenting to a wide range of audiences. Capable to communicate issues in a concise and effective way. 

·        Desire and drive to interact with, as well as ability to build and maintain excellent relationships with internal and external stakeholders. 

·         Product ownership mentality 

·        15+ years of experience in power management space, ideally including product definition, with semiconductor companies 

·        Travel will be required 

·        Bachelor or Masters of Electronics Engineering or related discipline 

·        Ability to build a strong team and motivate individuals to work out of their comfort zone 

·        Self-driven, strongly motivated individual capable to take full ownership of their activities, and to involve other functions in the company or management when needed to bring them to a successful outcome. 

·        Understanding of power management applications and products. 

Technical proficiency:

·        Hands-on experience and ability in lab debugging, probing and characterizing circuit and silicon using a mixture of custom-made and standard equipment such as power supplies, e-load, digital oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, etc. 

·        Board level analog and digital circuit design expertise and PCB schematic design 

·        SIMPLIS or similar ckt simulator 

·        Understanding of control loop theory and its application in power converters 

·        Experience using FEA tools for various thermal, electrical and magnetic investigations 

·        Programming proficiency in C and Python 

·        PCB CAD tools for both schematic and layout. 

·        Proficiency with a full complement of lab equipment including network analysers, oscilloscopes and waveform generators. Experience with automation of lab testing. 

·        Data analysis using Excel or JMP 

·        Understanding of AECQ / IATF /ISO26262 (FuSa) (At least basic level)