Principal IoT SoC Design Engineer

About the team: Renesas Electronics Americas (REA) is a dynamic, multi-cultural tech company where employees can learn, mentor and thrive. REA brings together the strong financial foundation of a multi-billion-dollar global operation and the flexibility and velocity of a smaller organization. We are developing technologies for the latest advances in mobile computing, secured connected devices, autonomous driving, smart homes and factories and more. Our solutions are at the heart of products developed by the major innovators around the world. Join us and be part of what’s next in electronics.

You will be a part of a small but global team responsible for solving various design challenges in the development of several families of state-of-the-art IoT microcontroller devices that cater to a growing range of IoT applications. This is an opportunity to join a top-notch MCU architecture and Design Team with Renesas Electronics America’s leading MCU product development organizations. As part of one of Renesas’s most prominent MCU development Groups, this Engineer will work on next-generation MCU products for multiple fast paced product lines.

What We Need:

Renesas IoT Embedded System Architecture team is seeking highly motivated, energetic MCU Architect to help develop next generation IoT Embedded technologies. In this role, you will contribute to developing Renesas state-of-the-art IoT microcontroller devices. As an IoT microcontroller architect, you will be a part of a team responsible for solving various architectural and design challenges in the development of several families of state-of-the-art IoT microcontroller devices that cater to a growing range of IoT applications.

What You’ll Do:

• Contribute to Architecture definition and design development of next generation IoT Embedded devices
• Create architecture and design specifications
• Select, evaluate, and recommend internal and third-party IPs
• Analyze MCU/SoC/ASIC Performance, power, area, schedule tradeoffs

Skills You’ll Need:

• MS/PhD in Computer or Electrical Engineering with 12+ years’ experience
• Experience with one or more of the following areas
• ARM and/or RISC-V processor subsystem architectures, on chip interconnects, and advanced debug and trace
• ARM and/or RISC-V Custom instruction extensions hardware design
• AI/ML hardware Acceleration for IoT MCU devices
• Experience of modern SoC architectures and PPA (Performance, Power, and Area) tradeoffs, and microarchitecture
• Experience in ASIC/SoC design and IP integration
• Experience in RTL design, verification and logic synthesis
• Experience writing specifications and converting them to design
• Familiarity with scripting languages like Perl or Tcl a plus
• Experience power and clock management designs desirable