Senior Power Design Engineer – Test Vehicles & GaN

Renesas Electronics Corporation; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Renesas Electronics Corporation in San Jose, CA seeks a Power Design Engineer to lead development of test vehicles for high-current BCD and LV GaN processes, defining architectures and conducting circuit/layout design through silicon bring-up.

You will collaborate with process development, product engineering, and applications teams to validate device performance under real switching and thermal conditions and to extend designs to module or board level.

Qualifications

• 10+ years hands-on design experience in power semiconductor devices, analog/power ICs, or power electronics.
• Strong knowledge of power conversion topologies and device requirements.
• Experience designing test structures or test chips/vehicles for process development.
• IC-level design and parasitic-aware layout for high-current switching nodes.
• Proficient with circuit simulation tools (SPICE or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Define, design, and drive test vehicles for high-current BCD and LV GaN processes.
• Translate process targets into test vehicle architecture and specs.
• Design and simulate power stage circuits (buck/boost, multiphase, half-bridge).
• Lead silicon bring-up, debug, and correlation with simulations.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with process, reliability, product/applications, and test engineering.
• Document design methodology and test results for qualification decisions.

Skills

Power device design

IC/layout design

SPICE simulation

Power electronics

Test vehicles/prototyping

Thermal management

Oscilloscopes/curve tracers

GaN/LDMOS experience

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical Engineering

Tools

SPICE

TCAD/Device simulation

EDA/Layout tools

Job description

Renesas Electronics Corporation in San Jose, CA seeks a Power Design Engineer to lead development of test vehicles for high-current BCD and LV GaN processes, defining architectures and conducting circuit/layout design through silicon bring-up.

You will collaborate with process development, product engineering, and applications teams to validate device performance under real switching and thermal conditions and to extend designs to module or board level.