Company Description

Renesas is one of the top global semiconductor companies in the world. We strive to develop a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter world, and our goal is to make every endpoint intelligent by offering product solutions in the automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT markets. Our robust product portfolio includes world leading MCUs, SoCs, analog and power products, plus Winning Combination solutions that curate these complementary products. We are a key supplier to the world’s leading manufacturers of electronics you rely on every day; you may not see our products, but they are all around you.

Renesas employs roughly 21,000 people in more than 30 countries worldwide. As a global team, our employees actively embody the Renesas Culture, our guiding principles based on five key elements: Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial. Renesas believes in, and has a commitment to, diversity and inclusion, with initiatives and a leadership team dedicated to its resources and values. At Renesas, we want to build a sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. Join us and build your future by being part of what’s next in electronics and the world.

Job Description

Seeking an individual to work on cutting edge and high-performance digital power management solutions. A successful candidate will have strong desire and ability to work in a technically challenging environment with other top performers to continue Renesas’s development of industry leading power system solutions.This is an opportunity to contribute in a top tier technical team developing industry leading power system solutions. To succeed, you will need to combine strong technical understanding of power semiconductor performance tradeoffs with excellent problem-solving skills in a team environment. The position is open for higher level and is based in our Bridgewater/NJ.

Qualifications

 Qualifications:

• BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Engineering or technical equivalent and a minimum of 2 years experience in the power management industry
• Understanding of power electronics, control theory, and Multi-phase DC/DC buck converter topology
• Automotive power background and understanding of AEC-Q1xx Qualification is a plus
• Programming skills using Labview or Python with Experience automating data collection
• Experience modeling power converter losses and/or experience in power semiconductor characterization.
• Proficiency with ckt simulation and PCB CAD tools
• Excellent lab based problem solving skills. Ability to follow data to root cause

Responsibilities

Support the development and validation of best in class power solutions for cutting edge Digital Power applications. Success in this position requires working between functional groups to clearly understand market requirements, provide design targets, and verify performance at both the device and system level, and automotive environment.

• Develop power loss models to aid device design in making parametric tradeoffs
• Benchmark competitive products
• Characterize power devices and complete power stage assemblies for AEC-Q100 Standard
• Analyze power losses to provide insight to support smart driver designs
• Develop test strategies to verify system level robustness of final designs

Additional Information

Renesas Electronics Corporation empowers a safer, smarter and more sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. The leading global provider of microcontrollers, Renesas combines our expertise in embedded processing, analog, power and connectivity to deliver complete semiconductor solutions. These Winning Combinations accelerate time to market for automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT applications, enabling billions of connected, intelligent devices that enhance the way people work and live. Learn more at renesas.com.
Renesas’ mission, To Make Our Lives Easier, is underpinned by our company culture, TAGIE. TAGIE stands for Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative and Entrepreneurial. Our goal is to embed this unique culture in everything we do to succeed as a company and create trust with our diverse colleagues, customers and stakeholders.
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.