Principal Technical Leader for Automotive Systems Power

Renesas Electronics; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Renesas Electronics is seeking a Principal Engineer to act as a global technical authority for complex IC development. The role spans the full lifecycle from specification and customer engagement to design, verification, silicon validation, and production readiness.

You will lead critical blocks, drive architectural trade-offs, and mentor engineers to elevate engineering practices and roadmap direction while collaborating across development teams worldwide.

Qualifications

• 12-15+ years of analog and/or mixed-signal IC design experience across full lifecycle.
• Proven leadership and cross-functional collaboration across global teams.
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence schedules under tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Provide global technical leadership, setting engineering direction across multiple programs.
• Lead end-to-end design execution from requirements through silicon validation and production readiness.
• Balance technical trade-offs for performance, power, area, reliability, and manufacturability.
• Ensure engineering excellence through reviews, documentation, and adherence to best practices.
• Drive verification, test, and validation strategies aligned with simulation and silicon results.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams worldwide across design, verification, test, validation, quality and applications.

Skills

Analog/mixed-signal design

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

Job description

Job Description

We are seeking a Principal Engineer to serve as a global technical authority who drives design excellence, technical execution, and engineering capability across complex integrated circuit development. This role spans the full lifecycle from specification and customer engagement through design, verification, silicon validation, and production readiness. The candidate combines deep technical expertise with the ability to challenge the status quo, drive execution improvements, and elevate organizational performance through strong collaboration across development teams.

• Provide global technical leadership, setting engineering direction and driving complex system and design decisions across multiple programs.
• Lead end-to-end design execution, owning critical blocks from requirements definition through silicon validation and production readiness.
• Balance technical trade-offs by translating requirements into architectures optimized for performance, power, area, reliability, and manufacturability.
• Ensure engineering excellence through technical reviews, design oversight, adherence to best practices, and high-quality documentation.
• Drive verification, test, and validation strategies, ensuring alignment between simulation results, silicon behavior, and system-level performance.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams, aligning design, verification, test, validation, quality, reliability, and applications engineering worldwide.
• Advance methodologies, automation, and AI adoption, improving engineering efficiency, traceability, documentation, and development workflows.
• Mentor engineers and influence organizational strategy, strengthening technical capability, improving engineering practices, and contributing to roadmap direction and industry best practices.

Qualifications

• 12-15+ years of analog and/or mixed-signal IC design experience, including technical leadership of complex semiconductor products and system developments.
• Bachelor’s or higher degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, or a related field, with advanced qualifications preferred.
• Strong expertise across the full product lifecycle, including system architecture, design, verification, validation, DFT, test, and production readiness.
• Proven leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional global teams, collaborate in multicultural environments, and deliver high-quality results under demanding schedules.

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.

Export Control Information

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.