Senior Hardware Validation Engineer

Renesas Electronics; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Plano, Texas, is seeking a Sr Hardware Validation Engineer to lead the validation of embedded products. The successful candidate will have 5-7 years of experience in embedded hardware and system design, particularly in microcontrollers and power management. Responsibilities include managing hardware validation, collaborating with teams, and ensuring product quality. The position supports a hybrid work model, allowing remote work two days a week.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience in embedded hardware and system design.
• Strong understanding of microcontrollers and power management.
• Experience validating high-speed interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Lead hardware validation planning and execution.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks.

Skills

Embedded hardware experience

Analogue/Mixed-signal design

SoC architecture knowledge

C/C++ programming skills

Signal Integrity analysis

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Power analyzers

JIRA

Job description

The Sr Hardware Validation engineer serves as embedded hardware domain expert, driving product and platform design quality, evaluation and validation objectives, and technical execution while collaborating closely with systems, firmware/software, validation, and platform development teams.

Job Description

• 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 closely with systems, firmware/software, validation, and product engineering teams to ensure seamless hardware-software integration.
• Identify and mitigate hardware-related technical risks, ensuring highest user experience
• Planning and execution of new product prototype bring-up, bench-testing, and evaluation.
• Support creation and review of technical documentation (Datasheets, User Manuals/Guides, Application Notes etc)
• Feedback findings, issues, potential improvements to product development teams
• Contribute to reference designs, development platforms, and documentation to enable broad customer adoption.
• Act as a technical mentor, influencing best practices and raising the bar for hardware design excellence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Computer Engineering, with at least 5- 7 years of experience
• 5-7 years of experience in embedded hardware and system design and validation encompassing microcontrollers, power management and analog/mixed-signal products
• Strong understanding of SoC architecture, ARM cores (A/M series), peripherals, power/clock/reset, and low-power design techniques.
• Very good understanding of electronic components like PMICs, MOSFETs, GaN, and other discretes
• Experience validating high-speed interfaces (e.g., DDR, USB, PCIe, MIPI, Ethernet) and standard protocols (SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, etc.).
• Knowledge of C/C++ or embedded programming for firmware development
• Hands-on experience with lab tools (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power analyzers, thermal sensors).
• Familiarity with validation frameworks, debug utilities (JTAG, Lauterbach, OpenOCD), and issue tracking systems (JIRA, Bugzilla).
• Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Hands‑on experience with Signal Integrity (SI) and Power Integrity (PI) analysis for high-speed digital, mixed‑signal, and power-dense designs.
• Applying best practices in schematic design, PCB layout, stack‑up definition, decoupling strategies, and grounding.
• Proven experience delivering embedded hardware designs from concept through production.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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.

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.

We have adopted a hybrid model that gives employees the ability to work remotely two days a week while ensuring that we come together as a team in the office the rest of the time. The designated in-office days are Tuesday through Thursday for innovation, collaboration and continuous learning.