Customer Technical Lead

Renesas; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunities

Job summary

Renesas in San Jose is looking for a Customer Technical Lead responsible for driving innovation in power efficiency solutions for datacenter products. This role requires extensive experience in the semiconductor industry and strong communication skills to interface with customers and internal teams.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree (Master's preferred) and over 15 years of experience. Salary is expected between $170K-$215K, and bonuses may apply.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of multi-disciplinary experience in semiconductor industry.
• Experience with embedded SoCs and collaboration with HW/FW/SW teams.
• Excellent technical and executive communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Interface with customer systems engineers to understand challenges.
• Analyze VR approaches from a customer's point of view.
• Build collateral to support customer engagement.
• Prepare executive summary material for discussions.
• Support top-tier customer engagements to drive consensus.
• Maintain key customer relationships for market visibility.

Skills

Experience in semiconductor industry

Understanding of power architecture

Familiarity with multiphase VRs

Technical communication skills

Experience with high-level modeling tools

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree in power engineering

Job description

Customer Technical Lead

In this role, you will be responsible for driving innovation delivering best in class solutions addressing power efficiency and density challenges for datacenter products serving the most critical AI customers. You will work directly with customers defining roadmaps aligned with their platform guided by compelling system level outcomes ensuring Renesas remains dominant in this space. You will engage cross functionally with a diverse team including marketing, design, packaging, and applications engineering teams to turn good ideas into reality.

Responsibilities

• Interface with customer systems engineers to understand big-scope perspective on challenges and value drivers.
• Analyze various VR approaches to determine how they fit in the big picture from a customers point of view.
• Build critical collateral to evangelize proposals and support customer engagement.
• Prepare executive summary level material to drive high level discussions with Sr Leaders and key customers.
• Directly support top-tier customer engagements to gain consensus on proposals and help drive them to revenue.
• Maintain key customer relationships to enable early market visibility.
• Work with Renesas functional teams to find best path to customer delight.
• Support design, FW, and SW teams during execution with clarification or necessary compromise.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of multi-disciplinary experience in semiconductor industry
• Understanding of general power architecture and product types related to CPU’s and other high current ASIC’s
• Experience with multiphase VR’s or other datacenter related power products
• Comprehension of topics including magnetics design, passive component selection, power device driver challenges, and real-world implementation challenges
• Experience with embedded SoC’s including cross-functional collaboration with HW/FW/SW teams
• Excellent technical and executive communication skills.
• Experience with high level modeling tools like SIMPLIS is a plus

Education

• Bachelor's degreerequired; Master'sdegree or higher in power engineering preferred

Additional Information

The expected annual pay range for this position is $170K-$215K. This position is also eligible for bonus opportunities. Please note that the final offer amount will depend on the candidate's geographic location, relevant experience, and skill set.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to celebrating 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 federal, state or local law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement (https://jobs.renesas.com/diversity-and-inclusion) .

Export Control

Renesas Electronics deals with dual-use technology that is subject to U.S. export controls regulations. Under these regulations it may be necessary for Renesas to obtain U.S. government export license prior to release of technology to certain persons. The decision whether or not to file or pursue an export license application is at the sole discretion of Renesas.

Location & Department

• Department: Engineering
• Location: San Jose
• Remote: No