Principal Engineer (f/m/d) Application Engineering

Location: Duesseldorf, de

Job Description

Are you an experienced embedded systems expert passionate about driving innovation in automotive technology? Join our MCU Tools and Ecosystem team, where you’ll work in shaping the usability and functionality of our automotive microcontroller ecosystem. Your experience will help improve existing tools, create proof of concepts, and actively participate in the design, deployment, and optimization of embedded systems for automotive applications.

We are a team of enthusiastic engineers who thrive on collaboration and innovation. Together, we tackle real-world challenges with code, enabling Renesas to deliver outstanding products. If you’re excited to get in touch with embedded systems and want to make a meaningful impact, we’d love to have you on our team!

Key Responsibilities of the Team:

• Technical Ownership: Drive the development of complex embedded applications and reference designs using Renesas MCUs, with a focus on motor control, inverter, communication gateway, and other key automotive applications.
• Embedded Architecture and Firmware Expertise: Provide deep technical direction on low-level embedded programming, real-time operating systems, hardware abstraction layers, and system performance optimization.
• Customer and Ecosystem Enablement: Serve as a senior technical advisor to strategic automotive customers, supporting integration and deployment of MCU solutions within their systems.
• Marketing and Sales Support: Offer efficient technical assistance to our marketing and sales teams during design activities, ensuring successful implementation and integration.
• Provide technical training to FAE, Sales, partners, and customers.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with hardware and software teams to ensure cohesive, robust, and scalable solutions.
• Mentorship and Guidance: Mentor junior engineers and application teams, promoting knowledge sharing and technical excellence.

Qualifications

• A degree in Electrical Engineering or a similar field of study.
• 8+ years of experience in embedded systems software development, ideally within the automotive domain.
• Deep knowledge of:
  • Embedded processors and microcontroller architectures in automotive applications
  • Embedded operating systems
  • Automotive communication protocols (CAN, LIN, FlexRay, Ethernet)
  • Low-level embedded programming in C, and scripting with Python or equivalent
  • Development, integration, and debugging of low-level drivers and firmware components, including hardware abstraction layers and related middleware
  • Board-level design, circuit analysis, debugging with tools such as oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers
  • Automated and system-level testing frameworks and methodologies
• Motivation to initiate and drive projects to completion with an open mind for working in an international environment.
• Good sense of understanding technical requirements and customer expectations
• Strong communication skills and the ability to represent technical solutions clearly to internal and external stakeholders.
• A collaborative mindset with a passion for mentorship, innovation, and delivering impactful results.

Additional Information

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’ As the industry’s leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power.
 
With a diverse team of over 21,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable, power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow, ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’     
 
At Renesas, you can: 

• Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.  

• Make a real impact by developing innovative products and solutions to meet our global customers' evolving needs and help make people’s lives easier, safe and secure. 

• Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system, including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups, will help you excel from the first day.    

Are you ready to own your success and make your mark?  

Join Renesas. Let’s Shape the Future together.  

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.

We have adopted a hybrid model that gives employees the ability to work remotely two days a week while ensuring that we come together as a team in the office the rest of the time. The designated in-office days are Tuesday through Thursday for innovation, collaboration and continuous learning.