Senior Staff Engineer

Renesas; Bayan Lepas; Hybrid; MYR 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An international embedded solutions provider in Penang is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to ensure product continuity and support the lifecycle of power IC products. You'll manage production issues and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive improvements in quality and efficiency. Ideal candidates have a Bachelor's in relevant engineering fields, at least 5 years of experience, and strong skills in data analysis and communication. Enjoy a flexible work environment with a mix of remote and in-office days.

Benefits

Flexible work environment

Opportunities for career advancement

Supportive employee resource groups

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Product Engineering.
• Highly self-motivated and adaptable with good time management skills.
• Having product test knowledge is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Ensure product continuity after mass production.
• Manage and mitigate risk in process changes.
• Analyze product performance and failure modes.

Skills

Data manipulation and analysis

Cost, ROI and efficiency management

Interpersonal and collaboration

Verbal and written communication in English

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Physics, Computer or related fields

Tools

JMP

PDF Exenso

Job description

Job Description

Job Summary

Sustaining Senior Staff Engineer ensures product continuity after mass production by manage products lifecycle, resolving production/ customer issues, and improving COGS. We are seeking a Product Engineer to join our team with a primary focus on sustaining engineering activities. This role is critical in ensuring the long‑term quality, reliability, and manufacturability of our power IC products. The ideal candidate will collaborate with cross‑functional teams—including design, test, manufacturing, and quality—to support mature products in high‑volume production, drive yield improvement, resolve customer issues, and extend product lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Sustain multiple products lifecycle, production and compliance. Oversees high volume PCP Products mass production manufacturing across all internal factory and subcons
• Sustaining Product COGS improvement and process optimization such as Yield/Volume/Test Time/failure improvements. Improve Test process and prevent potential quality excursions.
• Manage and mitigate risk in PCRB (Process Change Review Board) to keep delivery by supporting product qualifications, second‑source/material changes, and process migrations/improvements.
• Disposition of abnormal lots, low yielding lots or production issues
• Cross function interface with Operation, QA, Reliability, Factory and OSAT
• Monitor and resolve manufacturing and test issues, working closely with fab, assembly, and test sites.
• Analyze product performance, failure modes, and reliability to support customer returns (RMA/FA).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree Engineering in Electrical/Electronic, Physics, Computer or related fields with at least have a minimum of 5 years’ experience in Product Engineering.
• Good verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Proficient in Data manipulation and analysis skill. Familiar with JMP, PDF Exenso is a plus.
• Product Management skill. Strong sense of Cost, ROI and efficiency
• Familiar with Integrated Circuit semiconductor process
• Highly self‑motivated, adaptable and good time management skill
• Having Product Test Knowledge is a plus.
• Having knowledge of Products, IC, modules such as Driver, Power Stage is a plus.
• Good interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.

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 ourDiversity & 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.