Senior Principal: High-Performance Analog Product Strategy

Renesas Electronics Corp.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Health Savings Account

Dental

Vision

FSAs

Life insurance

AD&D

Pet insurance

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Job summary

Renesas Electronics Corp. is seeking a highly experienced product definer for CMSD to drive high‑performance analog and data converter IP development across consumer, industrial, and automotive markets.

You will partner with customers’ system teams, define objective specifications, and work with IC design to deliver differentiated mixed-signal products. This role emphasizes feasibility studies, customer engagement, and roadmap execution.

Qualifications

• Education: BSEE/MSEE degree or advanced degree with at least 15 years in high-performance analog applications.
• In-depth knowledge of programmable gain amplifiers, ADCs, and DACs.
• Knowledge of various power conversion architectures is a plus.
• Experience in proposing, defining, and developing semiconductor products.
• Ability to understand customer problems and propose solutions.
• Strong understanding of customers' systems and key data conversion requirements.
• Hands-on skills with lab equipment to debug and evaluate analog products.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage conflicts and meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Listen to and understand customer needs and anticipate requirements.
• Define product roadmaps with marketing for sustainable differentiation.
• Conduct feasibility studies for high-performance amplifiers, ADCs, and DAC IP.
• Identify new product ideas and convert them into objective specifications.
• Collaborate with design, apps, marketing, sales/FAE and customers to stay on track.
• Own objective specifications and author preliminary and production datasheets.

Skills

Analog design

Data converters

System-level thinking

Customer collaboration

Feasibility studies

Education

BSEE/MSEE + 15 years experience

Tools

Lab equipment

IC design tools

Job description

Renesas Electronics Corp. is seeking a highly experienced product definer for CMSD to drive high‑performance analog and data converter IP development across consumer, industrial, and automotive markets.

You will partner with customers’ system teams, define objective specifications, and work with IC design to deliver differentiated mixed-signal products. This role emphasizes feasibility studies, customer engagement, and roadmap execution.