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Senior Staff Field Applications Engineer - Digital

Farmington Hills, MI, us💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-25

Core

Drive design-in activities and provide application engineering support for automotive MCUs and SoCs, acting as a technical interface for OEMs to define next-generation products.

Role type

Senior Staff Field Applications Engineer (Digital/Automotive)

Builds

Automotive electronic systems (IVI, ADAS, xEV, Vehicle Controls) using Renesas MCUs and SoCs

Domain

Automotive semiconductor solutions

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Automotive system requirements analysis, MCU/SoC architecture, Linux/QNX/AUTOSAR/RTOS, multi-threaded programming, IPC/OS concepts, Functional Safety, Cybersecurity, Power/Thermal management, Vehicle Architecture/Networks, Lab instrumentation (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers)

Preferred skills

Experience with Microcontroller and SoCs, System bring-up and debugging

Technologies

Linux, QNX, AUTOSAR, RTOS, MCUs, SoCs, Oscilloscopes, Logic Analyzers

Responsibilities

Drive design-in for automotive product portfolio, define new products with customers, act as technical interface for OEMs, derive system requirements and market trends, manage projects with Sales/Marketing, maintain relationships with customer engineering, lead technical discussions on roadmaps, develop documentation and demonstrators, perform lab measurements, present technologies at seminars

Seniority

Senior Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence

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