Senior Embedded Hardware Validation Lead

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

Job summary

Renesas Electronics in San Jose, CA seeks a Sr Hardware Validation engineer to act as embedded hardware domain expert. You will drive validation objectives, mentor teams, and ensure robust hardware platforms across SoC, PMIC, and high-speed interfaces.

You'll own hardware execution from ideation to production readiness and collaborate with systems, firmware, and platform teams. Responsibilities include prototype bring-up, bench testing, and documentation; mitigate risks; contribute to reference

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical Engineering with 5–7 years of hardware design.
• 5–7 years embedded hardware and system design and validation experience.
• Strong understanding of SoC architecture and ARM cores.
• Experience validating high-speed interfaces (DDR, USB, PCIe, MIPI, Ethernet).
• Knowledge of C/C++ or embedded firmware development.
• Hands-on with lab test equipment (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers).
• Familiar with validation frameworks and issue tracking (JIRA, Bugzilla).
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills.
• SI/PI analysis experience.
• Schematic, PCB layout, stack-up and grounding practices.
• Experienced delivering embedded hardware from concept to production.

Responsibilities

• Lead hardware validation planning and execution of embedded products, applications and solutions utilizing a wide portfolio of Renesas products.
• 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 for HW-SW integration.
• Identify and mitigate hardware-related risks, ensuring highest user experience.
• Plan and execute new product prototype bring-up, bench-testing, and evaluation.
• Support creation and review of technical documentation (Datasheets, User Manuals/Guides, App Notes).
• Feedback findings and improvements to product teams.
• Contribute to reference designs and development platforms to enable broad customer adoption.
• Act as a technical mentor and raise the bar for hardware design excellence.

Skills

Embedded hardware

ARM cores

C/C++

Lab tools

JIRA

Debug utilities

Signal Integrity

Power Integrity

Schematic design

PCB layout

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

JTAG

Lauterbach

OpenOCD

Bugzilla

Oscilloscopes

Logic Analyzers

Job description

Renesas Electronics in San Jose, CA seeks a Sr Hardware Validation engineer to act as embedded hardware domain expert. You will drive validation objectives, mentor teams, and ensure robust hardware platforms across SoC, PMIC, and high-speed interfaces.

You'll own hardware execution from ideation to production readiness and collaborate with systems, firmware, and platform teams. Responsibilities include prototype bring-up, bench testing, and documentation; mitigate risks; contribute to reference