Renesas Electronics is hiring a Staff Engineer to provide technical leadership for firmware and software development on our RH850 Motor Control and Automotive Application Platform. You will act as a software domain authority, shaping architecture, implementation quality, and developer experience to create scalable, user-friendly embedded development platforms.
What You'll Do
- Lead firmware and software architecture, design, and implementation for RH850 motor control and automotive application platforms.
- Drive technical decisions focused on scalability, performance, maintainability, and developer usability.
- Own firmware/software execution from concept through validation, qualification support, and release.
- Collaborate closely with hardware, systems, validation, and applications teams to optimize hardware-software integration.
- Contribute to SDKs, drivers, middleware, reference applications, and development tools to enable rapid customer adoption.
- Ensure firmware/software deliverables meet automotive quality, reliability, and robustness expectations.
- Identify and mitigate software-related technical risks across platform development.
- Actively influence developer experience, documentation quality, and platform usability.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field with 10+ years of experience.
- Strong expertise in embedded firmware/software development for automotive or real-time systems.
- Proven experience delivering production-quality embedded software for MCU-based platforms.
- Solid understanding of motor control software, real-time systems, and embedded development workflows.
- Working knowledge of one or more host-side technology stacks, such as C/C++/RTOS, C#/.NET, Python (for automation/tools/GUIs), or UI frameworks like Qt or WPF/WinUI.
- Experience integrating host utilities with embedded targets over interfaces like USB, UART, CAN/CAN-FD, Ethernet and ensuring reliability across OS environments.
Nice to Have
- Experience with embedded firmware ecosystems such as AUTOSAR drivers.
- Experience building embedded development platforms or SDKs with broad adoption across the embedded engineering community.
Technical Stack
- Languages & Frameworks: C/C++/RTOS, C#/.NET, Python, Qt, WPF/WinUI
- Interfaces & Protocols: USB, UART, CAN/CAN-FD, Ethernet
- Ecosystems: AUTOSAR
Work Mode
This position offers a hybrid work arrangement.
Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to supporting diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination.
