Senior Embedded Software Validation Engineer

Renesas Electronics; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 115,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunities

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Renesas Electronics in Plano, TX seeks a Sr System Software Validation engineer to lead validation planning and execution for embedded products across Renesas portfolios. You will drive system-level software decisions, collaborate with systems, firmware, validation and platform teams to ensure robust hardware–software integration, and mentor peers while contributing to reference designs.

This role offers a competitive total rewards package including bonus opportunities and a strong engineering

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering.
• 5-7 years embedded firmware/software development experience across multiple IoT application segments.
• Strong knowledge of software architecture, design principles, and unit testing approaches.
• Experience delivering production-quality embedded software for MCU-based platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead software and system validation planning and execution of embedded products, applications and solutions utilizing a wide portfolio of Renesas products.
• Drive system level software technical decisions, ensuring robustness, usability and completeness of embedded solutions.
• Collaborate closely with systems, firmware/software, validation, and product engineering teams to ensure seamless hardware-software integration.
• Identify and mitigate system-level 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.

Skills

C/C++

Embedded C

RTOS

System validation

Debugging

Cross-functional teamwork

Automation scripting

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electronics Engineering/Computer Science/Computer Engineering

Tools

Qt

GitLab

JIRA

Confluence

Python

Job description

Renesas Electronics in Plano, TX seeks a Sr System Software Validation engineer to lead validation planning and execution for embedded products across Renesas portfolios. You will drive system-level software decisions, collaborate with systems, firmware, validation and platform teams to ensure robust hardware–software integration, and mentor peers while contributing to reference designs.

This role offers a competitive total rewards package including bonus opportunities and a strong engineering