Senior Staff Field Applications Engineer - Digital

As a Digital Field Applications Engineer (FAE) you will play a major role in the expansion of our market-leading digital products (MCUs & SoCs) by providing outstanding application engineering support for our customers. You will also play a key role in the definition of the next generation of Renesas Automotive Products working closely with the customer engineering teams and the Renesas application engineering and marketing teams.  Responsibilities:  • Drive the design-in activities of the complete product portfolio in automotive applications such as IVI, ADAS, xEV, Vehicle Controls etc. working with Automotive OEM customers.  • Define new products in close cooperation with our innovative customers and our internal technical marketing and applications teams.  • Act as a technical interface and consult our customers during the development of all automotive applications with particular focus on OEMs.  • Derive customer system requirements and market trends to develop system value propositions together with internal interfaces (Product Marketers, Application Engineers, System Architects).  • Build a good understanding of different product architectures and partner ecosystem to suggest/guide customers, to arrive at an optimal system design.  • Actively manage projects together with the Sales and Marketing departments to achieve design-in targets for the complete Renesas automotive product portfolio.  • Establish and maintain excellent relationships with the customer engineering departments with particular focus on OEMs.  • Proactively connect with global cross-functional teams, expand your internal network, and share your experience to drive global business expansion.  • Lead technical discussions with System Architects and Application Engineering experts to jointly define application roadmaps and product technical requirements.  • Collaborate internally with Application Engineers and Product Marketers and externally with local and global partners to develop documentation (fighting guides, application notes, whitepapers) and system demonstrators combining software and hardware.  • Perform measurements in our laboratory within the scope of actual customer projects.  • Present Renesas’ technologies, products, and applications in technical seminars.  • Education: Electrical / Electronic Engineering or similar field of studies.  • Minimum 8 years of related work experience, especially 3+ years of experience in automotive applications.  • Working experience as Field or Application Engineer for Microcontroller and SoCs is preferred.  • Understand automotive system technical requirements and propose optimized products and solutions.  • Profound knowledge about semiconductors including SoC, MCU, Analog & Power products.  • Experience with OS / Frameworks (Linux, QNX, AUTOSAR, RTOS).  • Proficient in multi-threaded programming and middleware solution development in different OS environments. Strong in fundamentals of IPC and OS concepts.  • Working knowledge on Automotive Functional Safety and Cybersecurity concepts.  • Proficient in Power and Thermal management at system level.  • Experience in Vehicle Architecture / Networks design.  • Hands-on system bring-up, testing, and debugging skills.  • Hands-on experience with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and other standard lab equipment.  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills.  Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose, To Make Our Lives Easier . With a global team of over 21,000 engineers and problem solvers in more than 30 countries, we offer the opportunity to work on world‑leading technology for Automotive, Industrial, Infrastructure, and IoT, shaping a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter future. At Renesas, TAGIE is o