Senior Field Applications Engineer (Automotive Tier 1 & OEM)
Core
Provide application engineering support and drive design-in for automotive MCUs, SoCs, analog, and power products for OEMs.
Role type
Senior Field Applications Engineer (Automotive)
Builds
Automotive electronic systems (IVI, ADAS, xEV, Vehicle Controls) using Renesas MCUs, SoCs, analog, and power products.
Domain
Automotive semiconductors and embedded systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Automotive system requirements analysis, semiconductor product knowledge (SoC, MCU, Analog, Power), OS/Framework expertise (Linux, QNX, AUTOSAR, RTOS), multi-threaded programming, middleware development, IPC/OS concepts, Functional Safety, Cybersecurity, Power/Thermal management, Vehicle Architecture/Networks design, system bring-up, testing, debugging, lab equipment operation (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers)
Preferred skills
Fluent Japanese, conversation-level English
Technologies
Linux, QNX, AUTOSAR, RTOS, MCUs, SoCs, Analog, Power, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers
Responsibilities
Drive design-in activities for automotive applications with OEMs, define new products with customers and internal teams, act as technical interface for customer development, derive system requirements and market trends, build product architecture understanding, manage projects with Sales/Marketing, maintain relationships with customer engineering, connect with global teams, lead technical discussions on roadmaps, collaborate on documentation and system demonstrators, perform lab measurements, present technologies in seminars
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC