Principal Digital Verification Architect - Power Management

Renesas Electronics; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Renesas Electronics in Austin seeks a Principal Digital Engineer to define scalable verification and validation methodologies for advanced digital power management products used in AI, datacenter, and high-performance computing applications.

The role emphasizes system-level verification that connects analog behavior, digital implementation, firmware interaction, and software tooling, with measurable pass/fail criteria and evidence for architecture decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of experience in mixed-signal verification, semiconductor validation, systems engineering, analog/mixed-signal design, design verification, or related product development.
• Strong understanding of analog and mixed-signal building blocks such as ADCs, DACs, amplifiers, references, sensing paths, timing circuits, PWM paths, or power stages.
• Experience defining verification plans, validation methodologies, measurable results, and technical evidence for complex electronic systems.
• Ability to work across analog, digital, firmware, validation, applications, and software/tool teams.
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex cross-domain verification issues clearly.

Responsibilities

• Define mixed-signal verification strategy for digital power controllers and related power management products.
• Develop system-level verification plans covering sensing paths, ADC/DAC behavior, PWM paths, telemetry, compensation, control-loop behavior, latency, quantization, noise, limits, sequencing, and corner behavior.
• Establish correlation methodologies across behavioral models, RTL, analog/mixed-signal simulations, emulation, bench validation, and silicon measurements where applicable.
• Define measurable pass/fail criteria, coverage expectations, reference scenarios, and evidence requirements for architecture and product decisions.
• Collaborate with systems, analog design, digital design, firmware, design verification, validation, applications, and software/tool teams.
• Support automation of verification results, including consistent metrics, plots, waveforms, summaries, and structured outputs for engineering review.
• Identify verification gaps early and help teams close ambiguity between system intent, implementation behavior, and validation evidence.
• Document verification methodology, interface assumptions, test intent, correlation expectations, and residual risks clearly for technical and leadership audiences.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Verbal/written communication

Verification planning

Automation mindset

System-level thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Tools

Verilog-AMS

SystemVerilog RNM

MATLAB

Python

SIMPLIS

Job description

Renesas Electronics in Austin seeks a Principal Digital Engineer to define scalable verification and validation methodologies for advanced digital power management products used in AI, datacenter, and high-performance computing applications.

The role emphasizes system-level verification that connects analog behavior, digital implementation, firmware interaction, and software tooling, with measurable pass/fail criteria and evidence for architecture decisions.