Senior Staff Application Engineer, 48V DC/DC

Location: Austin, TEXAS, us

Job Description

This role serves as a key interface between product engineering, test engineering, and design engineering. The focus is on customer system applications, design-in support, and development of technical collateral for both new and existing products.

This role will drive system-level innovation, including defining architectures, evaluating advanced power solutions, and validating complete 48V DC/DC systems that meet next-generation performance, reliability, and customer requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Investigate and verify advanced solutions to meet latest requirements of 48V DC/DC application.
• Maintain exited 48V solution of designing eval board, validation, continually improvement.
• Provide referenced design to customers and provide technical support to customers.
• Communicate with customers for design reviews, solution presentation, issue solving.
• Write product datasheets with applications sections, application notes, internal and external presentations, and demo board user manuals, responsible for all text, graphs, and diagrams.
• Perform and design Lab tests (using manual and automatic methods of measurement) to verify, characterize, and prevent future failures of analog/power management circuits using Lab benchtop equipment.
• System validation with new controller, gate driver and power stage, etc.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's or above in Power Electronics Engineering.
• Experience: Minimum of 5 years’ hand-on experience in the 48V DC/DC power
• Good understanding of basic topology, control loop theory, magnetic and application in power converters
• Proficiency with SIMPLIS or similar circuit simulator in a switching regulator context
• Proficiency with PCB CAD tools for both schematic and layout.
• Excellent lab-based problem-solving skills. Ability to debug & dig out the root cause.
• Have driven force in projects, results oriented

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 22,000 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. Shape Your Future with Us.

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to celebrating 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 federal, state or local law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.

Renesas Electronics deals with dual-use technology that is subject to U.S. export controls regulations. Under these regulations it may be necessary for Renesas to obtain U.S. government export license prior to release of technology to certain persons. The decision whether or not to file or pursue an export license application is at the sole discretion of Renesas.