Senior Manager, System & Application

Location: Bengaluru, KA, in

Company Description

Renesas is a global semiconductor leader shaping the backbone of next‑generation automotive, industrial, cloud, and IoT innovation. With over $9.3 billion in annual revenue (2024) and a world‑class team of 22,700+ employees, Renesas operates at scale while retaining the agility to drive category‑defining breakthroughs. The company’s footprint spans more than 30 countries, enabling deep customer proximity and a uniquely global innovative engine. As Japan’s semiconductor powerhouse and a top global player in microcontrollers, analog, and power technologies, Renesas delivers real‑world impact across EVs, smart factories, renewable energy infrastructure, and edge intelligence. For ambitious problem‑solvers who want to work on meaningful, systems‑level challenges with huge industry leverage, Renesas offers the scale, stability, and strategic clarity of a market leader—paired with the transformative momentum of a company reinventing how the world computes, connects, and electrifies.

Renesas has a growing presence in India with HC approaching 1000+ and significant presence with active government and university collaboration as well as OSAT footprint (JV with CG India). With the growing importance of India as a market (Growing semiconductor market and government goals / mandates of localization needs) and talent hub, our division’s (India for India) mission is to grow India market. We aspire to create products (SoCs, Software, Power and Analog chips etc) which serve needs for local market. Renesas is a leading electronics supplier globally, and this is a unique opportunity to directly influence the future products which will be offered to our customers in a new, fast growing and large Indian market with specific needs and applications.

Job Description

We are seeking a talented and motivated person to join as senior manager of system and application team to own and define next generation products and support customer for India for India business division with focus on power products.

A successful candidate will have strong desire and ability to work in a technically challenging and entrepreneurial environment. To succeed, candidate will need to combine deep technical understanding of power management, Renesas products and customer systems. You will engage in product definition as well as customer support activities. Your ability to work across functional groups through formal communication and direct interaction is critical to success. The position requires significant technical experience in power management as well as understanding of firmware-enabled and embedded system (attach to SoC) products. The candidate will work closely with management, sales and engineers based in India while coordinating efforts with a global team.

Responsibilities

• Identify market opportunities and collaborate with Marketing team, Business Division management, and Sales to exploit these opportunities
• Support marketing/Sales/FAEs to facilitate the design-in of our products as well as providing technical assistance to address customer technical questions such as customer circuit design review, debug, troubleshooting and field return analysis.
• Use knowledge gained to support marketing business plan including TAM/ SAM / SOM) activities by providing analysis demonstrating technical merit of Renesas solutions vs competing solutions.
• Provide deep technical support and training to advance Renesas’s commercial success. Requires ability to translate complex ideas or implementations to a level suitable for less experienced audiences such as customers or field sales staff.
• Work with the broader marketing team and design team to develop customer collateral that raises the company's profile
• Understand market and customer requirements and define product requirements and improve product roadmaps
• Define product family roadmap
• ·Produce technically detailed Product Requirements and / or design specifications documents.
• Work with design engineering when conflicts arise between requirements, capabilities and business expectations.
• Interpret device level system use cases and requirements and translate to product specifications while ensuring specifications meet customer needs by working with customers and internal teams
• Compare of design trade-offs and IP choices to achieve competitive product specifications
• Participate in FPGA based design prototyping to verify key features and functions will meet expectations. Work with design and other staff to find solutions when targets are not met.
• Guide staff in creation of Applications Validation Plans by using experience to ensure corner cases are covered
• Perform physical silicon device evaluation at board level based on defined evaluation plans, including understanding the silicon behavior and functionality in detail.
• Drive system modelling requirement
• Support hiring and managing the necessary team as per business need over time

Qualifications

• Comfort and ability to collaborate and be effective in an entrepreneurial (fast-paced and ambiguous) environment
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills and comfort in presenting to a wide range of audiences. Capable to communicate issues in a concise and effective way.
• Desire and drive to interact with, as well as ability to build and maintain excellent relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
•  Product ownership mentality
• 12+ years of experience in power management space, ideally including product definition, with semiconductor companies
• Travel will be required
• Bachelor or Masters of Electronics Engineering or related discipline
• Ability to build a strong team and motivate individuals to work out of their comfort zone
• Self-driven, strongly motivated individual capable to take full ownership of their activities, and to involve other functions in the company or management when needed to bring them to a successful outcome.
• Understanding of power management applications and products.

Technical proficiency

• Hands-on experience and ability in lab debugging, probing and characterizing circuit and silicon using a mixture of custom-made and standard equipment such as power supplies, e-load, digital oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, etc.
• Board level analog and digital circuit design expertise and PCB schematic design
• SIMPLIS or similar ckt simulator
• Understanding of control loop theory and its application in power converters
• Experience using FEA tools for various thermal, electrical and magnetic investigations
• Programming proficiency in C and Python
• PCB CAD tools for both schematic and layout.
• Proficiency with a full complement of lab equipment including network analysers, oscilloscopes and waveform generators. Experience with automation of lab testing.
• Data analysis using Excel or JMP
• Understanding of AECQ / IATF /ISO26262 (FuSa) (At least basic level)

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.