Senior Power Design Engineer - Test Vehicles Lead

Renesaselectronics; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Renesas Electronics is seeking a Power Design Engineer in San Jose to lead the definition, design, and bring-up of test vehicles for high-current BCD and LV GaN processes. You will drive topology choices, test structures, and board-level co-design with packaging and magnets.

You will collaborate with process development, product engineering, and applications teams to validate devices, characterize switching performance, and optimize layouts for power efficiency and reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Microelectronics, or related field.
• 10+ years of hands‑on design experience in power semiconductor devices, analog/power ICs, or power electronics.

Responsibilities

• Define, design, and drive execution of test vehicles (TVs) for high-current BCD and LV GaN process technologies, including device test structures, scaled power stages, and full-function demonstration circuits.
• Translate process capability targets and product roadmap requirements into test vehicle architecture and specifications.
• Design and simulate power stage circuits (e.g., synchronous buck/boost, multiphase, half-bridge/DrMOS, gate drivers) used to validate device performance under realistic switching and thermal conditions.
• Select and characterize power devices for inclusion in test structures, working with device/process engineering on layout-dependent tradeoffs (RDS(ON), Qg, breakdown voltage, SOA).
• Perform IC-level layout and design for test structures, including parasitic-aware layout for switch nodes, current sensing, and gate drive paths.
• Extend designs to module/package level as needed - co-design of power stages with packaging, magnetics, and PCB layout for evaluation boards and system-level test vehicles.
• Develop test and characterization plans covering DC parametrics, switching performance, efficiency, transient response, and voltage/current stress margins.
• Lead or support silicon bring-up, debug, and correlation of measured results against simulation and design targets.
• Document design methodology, test vehicle results, and characterization data to support technology qualification and product development decisions.

Skills

Power device design

Analog / power ICs

Power conversion topologies

IC/layout experience

Device physics

SPICE simulation

Lab bring‑up & characterization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

SPICE

TCAD

Job description

Renesas Electronics is seeking a Power Design Engineer in San Jose to lead the definition, design, and bring-up of test vehicles for high-current BCD and LV GaN processes. You will drive topology choices, test structures, and board-level co-design with packaging and magnets.

You will collaborate with process development, product engineering, and applications teams to validate devices, characterize switching performance, and optimize layouts for power efficiency and reliability.