Senior SW Validation Engineer

Company Description

Renesas is one of the top global semiconductor companies in the world. We strive to develop a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter world, and our goal is to make every endpoint intelligent by offering product solutions in the automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT markets. Our robust product portfolio includes world-leading MCUs, SoCs, analog and power products, plus Winning Combination solutions that curate these complementary products. We are a key supplier to the world’s leading manufacturers of electronics you rely on every day; you may not see our products, but they are all around you.

Renesas employs roughly 21,000 people in more than 30 countries worldwide. As a global team, our employees actively embody the Renesas Culture, our guiding principles based on five key elements: Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial. Renesas believes in, and has a commitment to, diversity and inclusion, with initiatives and a leadership team dedicated to its resources and values. At Renesas, we want to build a sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. Join us and build your future by being part of what’s next in electronics and the world.

Job Description

The Sr System Software Validation Engineer serves as embedded and system software domain expert, driving software quality, evaluation and validation objectives, and technical execution while collaborating closely with systems, firmware/software, validation, and platform develop teams.

As part of one of Renesas’s fastest growing product lines, you will have the opportunity to directly impact customer experience through work on software products that enable feature rich hardware to shine.  If you like problem-solving, working with systems involving SW/FW/HW, and switching between multiple languages and paradigms, we’d like to hear from you. If you seek a place to shine with no artificial barriers apply now!

Key Responsibilities

• Lead software and system validation planning and execution of embedded products, applications and solutions utilizing a wide portfolio of Renesas products
• Drive system level software technical decisions, ensuring robustness, usability and completeness of embedded solutions
• Collaborate closely with systems, firmware/software, validation, and product engineering teams to ensure seamless hardware‑software integration.
• Identify and mitigate system-level technical risks, ensuring highest user experience
• Planning and execution of new product prototype bring-up, bench-testing, and evaluation. 
• Support creation and review of technical documentation (Datasheets, User Manuals/Guides, Application Notes)
• Contribute to reference designs, development platforms, and documentation to enable broad customer adoption.

• Gather and drive clarity on software requirements from diverse groups including customers, application engineers, hardware, and firmware engineers

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Computer Science or Computer Engineering
•  5-7 years experience in embedded firmware/software development required across multiple IoT application segments
• Strong understanding of Software Architecture and Design principles, Behavior-Driven Development and unit testing approaches
• Knowledge of ARM and RISC processors
• High-level of proficiency in C/C++, Embedded C programming
• Proven experience delivering production‑quality embedded software for MCU and MPU based platforms.
• Good understanding of motor control software, real‑time systems, and embedded development workflows.
• Working knowledge (hands‑on preferred) of one or more host-side technology stacks, such as:
  • C/C++/ RTOS (FreeRTOS, Zephyr)
  • C#/.NET / Python (automation/tools, GUIs, packaging)
• Experience integrating host utilities with embedded targets over common interfaces (e.g., USB, UART, SPI, I2C, Ethernet) across OS environments.
• Experience in developing Agentic Tools
• Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail and accuracy 
• Demonstrates creative thinking in debug and troubleshooting skills and building solutions
• Experience in DevOps including JIRA, Confluence and GitLab preferred
• Must have highly developed written and verbal cross-functional communication skills
• Ability to work effectively in a multicultural, cross-functional environment.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience supporting embedded development platforms or reference designs with broad customer adoption across Robotics, Edge AI and Industrial IoT applications
• Execute firmware validation of boot flows, power/clock/reset, memory subsystems, interconnects, and interfaces across stress, corner, and fault scenarios.

• Drive system bring‑up on evaluation boards, development boards and reference designs
• Analyze validation data and logs, track issues through structured closure, and contribute to quality metrics.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance within the validation team.

Additional Information

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 our culture, grounded in being Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial. It shapes how we work, grow and deliver on our purpose together. This collaborative spirit and mindset drive our semiconductor technology to transform industries and impact millions of lives.

We believe in rewarding our employees with a competitive benefits package alongside their salary. More information will be provided during the hiring process.

Are you ready to join our team and shape the future with us?

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to supporting diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.