Principal Electrical Engineer

About the role

Renesas is seeking an experienced Digital Design Engineer for our RadHard product team, which develops high-performance, radiation-hardened mixed-signal integrated solutions. The environment is fast-paced, and team members are empowered to make decisions within their job function. The successful candidate will design digital circuits and support the mixed-signal verification environment.

Responsibilities

• Actively participate in all stages of product development, including specification, design, synthesis, verification, timing analysis, design for test, and silicon debug.
• Architect and write RTL for digital circuits such as digital interfaces, controllers, state machines, and algorithms.
• Perform synthesis and achieve timing convergence.
• Develop and verify self-tested test benches for mixed-signal chips and sub-circuits.
• Strive for maximal verification coverage in the most time-efficient manner.
• Work with the team to integrate AMS and DV verification plans into one master verification plan.
• Diligently work to accomplish project goals and meet schedule requirements.
• Drive continuous personal, team, project, and company improvement.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Verilog RTL coding, with proficiency in VerilogAMS, VerilogA, Verilog (or SystemVerilog) for both ASICs and FPGAs.
• MSEE or PhD with a strong background in digital design.
• Proficient in developing design constraints and synthesis scripts.
• Experience with behavioral top-level modeling and mixed-signal verification methodology.
• Experience with scan insertion and ATPG generation.
• Able to work independently with limited supervision; highly organized, self-motivated, and passionate about the work.
• Written and verbal English language proficiency.

Skills

• Proficiency with Cadence Design Tools and Synopsys DC.
• Cadence AMS design flow experience (preferred).
• PhD in Electrical Engineering (preferred).
• 15+ years of digital design experience (preferred).
• Radiation Hardening (Rad-Hard) experience (preferred).

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider with a global team of over 21,000 engineers across more than 30 countries. We offer opportunities to work on world-leading technology for Automotive, Industrial, Infrastructure, and IoT applications, shaping a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter future. Our culture, TAGIE, is grounded in being Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial.