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Senior Director, Application Engineering

Austin, TEXAS, us💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-03 → 2026-09-25

Core

Build and lead a global organization to drive design wins for Renesas silicon in AI and high-performance compute power delivery, serving hyperscale and OEM customers from architecture through production ramp.

Role type

Senior Director, Application Engineering (Build & Scale)

Builds

Global application engineering organization, reference design portfolio, and customer enablement automation.

Domain

Semiconductor, Power Electronics, Datacenter Power Delivery, AI Compute Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | client delivery

Required skills

Organizational leadership, team building and scaling, recruiting and talent development, managing managers, cross-functional influence, executive communication, power electronics architecture expertise, datacenter power delivery knowledge, NPI process ownership.

Preferred skills

Experience with hyperscale/OEM/ODM/ASIC customers, ability to scale teams rapidly, track record in power management semiconductors.

Technologies

Voltage regulators, power management semiconductors, simulation models, design guides, rack and bus bar distribution, intermediate conversion.

Responsibilities

Build and scale the global application engineering team; develop front-line managers and organizational structure; own the reference design portfolio for AI power delivery; manage technical escalations and close the loop to roadmap; lead customer engagements with senior decision makers.

Seniority

Senior Director, hands-on IC with heavy people-leadership focus

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