Lead Embedded Hardware Validation Engineer

Renesas Electronics Corp.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Renesas Electronics Corp. seeks a Sr Hardware Validation engineer to act as embedded hardware domain expert, driving product quality and validation objectives.

You will lead hardware validation planning and execute across embedded products, collaborating with systems, firmware/software, validation, and platform teams to ensure robust hardware platforms. The ideal candidate has 5–7 years of hands-on experience in embedded hardware and system design, strong SoC/ARM knowledge, and proven ability to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Computer Engineering, with 5–7 years of experience.
• 5–7 years embedded hardware and system design/validation including microcontrollers, power management and analog/mixed-signal products.
• Strong understanding of SoC architecture, ARM cores (A/M series), peripherals, power/clock/reset, and low-power design techniques.
• Experience validating high-speed interfaces (e.g., DDR, USB, PCIe, MIPI, Ethernet) and standard protocols (SPI, I2C, UART, CAN).
• Knowledge of C/C++ or embedded programming.
• Hands-on experience with lab tools (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power analyzers).
• Familiarity with validation frameworks, debug utilities (JTAG, Lauterbach, OpenOCD), and issue tracking systems (JIRA, Bugzilla).

Responsibilities

• Lead hardware validation planning and execution of embedded products, applications and solutions.
• Drive hardware technical decisions, ensuring robustness, usability and completeness of hardware platforms.
• Own hardware execution from ideation, validation through qualification and production readiness.
• Collaborate with systems, firmware/software, validation, and product engineering teams to ensure seamless hardware-software integration.
• Identify and mitigate hardware-related technical risks, ensuring highest user experience.
• Planning and execution of new product prototype bring-up, bench-testing, and evaluation.
• Feedback findings, issues, potential improvements to product development teams.
• Contribute to reference designs, development platforms, and documentation to enable broad customer adoption.
• Act as a technical mentor, influencing best practices and raising the bar for hardware design excellence.

Skills

Embedded hardware

System design

Validation

SI/PI analysis

Lab tools

JTAG/OpenOCD

C/C++

ARM cores

Leadership

Communication

Education

B.S./M.S. in Electrical Engineering / Electronics / Computer Engineering

Tools

JIRA

Bugzilla

OpenOCD

Lauterbach

Job description

Renesas Electronics Corp. seeks a Sr Hardware Validation engineer to act as embedded hardware domain expert, driving product quality and validation objectives.

You will lead hardware validation planning and execute across embedded products, collaborating with systems, firmware/software, validation, and platform teams to ensure robust hardware platforms. The ideal candidate has 5–7 years of hands-on experience in embedded hardware and system design, strong SoC/ARM knowledge, and proven ability to