Senior Embedded Validation Engineer — Drive Robust Software

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

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunities

Job summary

Renesas Electronics is seeking a Sr System Software Validation engineer in the US to lead validation planning and execution for embedded products. You will drive system-level software decisions, collaborate across systems, firmware/software, validation and platform teams, and help ensure robust hardware-software integration.

The role requires strong C/C++, RTOS experience, and a track record of delivering production-quality embedded software for MCU platforms, with DevOps exposure and excellent

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
• 5-7 years experience in embedded firmware/software development across multiple IoT segments.
• Strong understanding of software architecture and design principles; BDD and unit testing approaches.
• High-level proficiency in C/C++, Embedded C programming.
• Proven experience delivering production-quality embedded software for MCU-based platforms.
• Solid understanding of motor control software, real-time systems and embedded development workflows.
• Hands-on knowledge of host-side stacks such as C/C++, RTOS (FreeRTOS/Zephyr), C#/DOTNET, Python, and UI frameworks (Qt, WinUI).
• Experience integrating host utilities with embedded targets over USB, UART, SPI, I2C, Ethernet across OS environments.
• Experience in DevOps including JIRA, Confluence and GitLab.
• Excellent written and verbal cross-functional communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead software and system validation planning and execution of embedded products and solutions.
• Drive system-level software decisions ensuring robustness and usability.
• Collaborate with systems, firmware/software, validation, and product engineering teams for seamless hardware-software integration.
• Identify and mitigate system-level technical risks to improve user experience.
• Plan and execute prototype bring-up, bench-testing and evaluation of new products.
• Assist in creation and review of datasheets, user manuals and application notes.
• Provide feedback on findings and potential improvements to product teams.
• Contribute to reference designs and development platforms to enable broad customer adoption.
• Gather and clarify software requirements from customers and internal teams.
• Contribute to existing and new projects across languages and scope.
• Aid in code reviews and act as a technical mentor to raise engineering standards.

Skills

C/C++

Embedded C

RTOS (FreeRTOS/Zephyr)

System validation

Software architecture

DevOps tooling

Cross-team collaboration

Education

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

Tools

Qt / WinUI

JIRA

Confluence

GitLab

Python

Job description

Renesas Electronics is seeking a Sr System Software Validation engineer in the US to lead validation planning and execution for embedded products. You will drive system-level software decisions, collaborate across systems, firmware/software, validation and platform teams, and help ensure robust hardware-software integration.

The role requires strong C/C++, RTOS experience, and a track record of delivering production-quality embedded software for MCU platforms, with DevOps exposure and excellent