Senior Staff Firmware Engineer - Power & AI Compute

Renesas Electronics; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Renesas Electronics is seeking a Sr Staff Electrical Engineer for our Performance Computing Power (PCP) team in Austin, TX, where we develop the most advanced digital power ICs in the industry. You will architect, design, and maintain firmware for integrated circuits that supply power to the largest and most powerful advanced computing platforms.

Your contributions will span low level circuits to large system design, and you will see those systems all the way through to high volume manufacturing.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of firmware development on custom SOCs in pre and post silicon environments.
• BS/MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, or related field.
• Expert at embedded firmware development in C and assembly.
• Good understanding of software development cycle and version control.
• Skillful at interrupt, memory, and performance optimization for RTOS apps.
• Deep understanding of state machine driven task management and RTOS concepts.
• Experience with hardware RTL design in Verilog.
• Proficient with Linux command line and Python/Perl scripting.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail; good communication.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and verify embedded firmware for digital PWM voltage regulators.
• Write firmware patches to implement new features or hardware workarounds.
• Work with hardware design to define interfaces based on requirements.
• Write specifications to document firmware architecture and implementation.
• Collaborate with validation to bring up silicon and debug issues.
• Develop automated tests to validate firmware on lab benches.

Skills

Firmware development

C programming

Assembly language

RTOS concepts

Debug techniques

Education

BS/MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Tools

Verilog

Linux

Python

Job description

Renesas Electronics is seeking a Sr Staff Electrical Engineer for our Performance Computing Power (PCP) team in Austin, TX, where we develop the most advanced digital power ICs in the industry. You will architect, design, and maintain firmware for integrated circuits that supply power to the largest and most powerful advanced computing platforms.

Your contributions will span low level circuits to large system design, and you will see those systems all the way through to high volume manufacturing.