Senior Staff Application Engineer

As a Sr Staff Application Engineer for Renesas Performance Computing Power Application engineering team, you will be a senior technical contributor and decision maker in new power management applications in the infrastructure server/AI server market. You will engage cross functionally with a diverse team including marketing, software engineering, IC design, and other applications engineering teams to deliver the most innovative power solutions in the server computing market.

This senior role provides broad system level solution insight and support. A broad comprehension of DC/DC power conversion is required including familiarity with digital multiphase PWM controllers. Key responsibilities include:

• Support marketing efforts by providing detailed solutions matching customer detailed requirements.
• Support development efforts by contributing to product requirement documents to ensure design teams have the detailed information needed to execute and verify designs.
• Develop collateral such as datasheets, performance reports, and application notes to support customer engagement.
• Support training of other AE’s and FAE’s to enable broad support and knowledge of the products.

Requirements

This role requires technical strength in high performance power management (mid- and low-voltage high-current DC/DC) for embedded SOC in the infrastructure server/network/High-end Desktop and Graphics card market. Experience with multiphase CPU VRs is highly desirable. Typical requirements are a minimum of 10 years of relevant semiconductor experience with lab work experience. A BS degree in engineering (EE – power electronics preferred), with MS degree preferred.

• Must have minimum of 10 years experience in the power management industry.
• Must Have experience with firmware-enabled products and powering large scale application- specific integrated circuit (Central processing unit /Graphics processing unit etc.) in the data center market is required.
• Experience with multiphase DC/DC converters powering Intel/AMD/SoC systems.
• Mixed-signal Integrated Circuit/System knowledge/experience.
• Experience with digitally enabled power management products.
• Understanding of control loop theory and its application in power converters.
• Proficiency with a full complement of lab equipment including network. analyzers, oscilloscopes and waveform generators.
• Experience with automation of lab testing.