Sr. Staff Engineer – FirmwareSoftware Development

Role Overview

This role is responsible for technical leadership and execution of firmware and software development for the RH850 Motor Control and Automotive Application Platform.

The Sr. Staff Engineer serves as a software domain authority driving architecture implementation quality and developer experience while enabling scalable userfriendly embedded development platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead firmware and software architecture design and implementation for RH850 motor control and automotive application platforms.
• Drive software technical decisions with focus on scalability performance maintainability and developer usability.
• Own firmware/software execution from concept through validation qualification support and release readiness.
• Collaborate closely with hardware systems validation and applications teams to ensure optimized hardwaresoftware integration.
• Contribute to SDKs drivers middleware reference applications and development tools enabling rapid customer adoption.
• Ensure firmware/software deliverables meet automotive quality reliability and robustness expectations.
• Identify and mitigate softwarerelated technical risks across platform development.
• Actively influence developer experience documentation quality and platform usability.

Qualifications :

• Bachelors degree in computer engineering Electrical Engineering Computer Science or related field with 10 years of experience.
• Strong expertise in embedded firmware/software development for automotive or realtime systems.
• Proven experience delivering productionquality embedded software for MCUbased platforms.
• Solid understanding of motor control software realtime systems and embedded development workflows.
• Working knowledge (handson preferred) of one or more host-side technology stacks such as:
  • C/C/ RTOS
  • C#/.NET / Python (automation/tools GUIs packaging)
  • UI frameworks such as Qt WPF/WinUI or equivalent
• Experience integrating host utilities with embedded targets over common interfaces (e.g. USB UART CAN/CANFD Ethernet) and ensuring reliability across OS environments.

Advantage

• Experience with embedded firmware ecosystems such as AUTOSAR drivers.
• Experience building embedded development platforms or SDKs with broad adoption across the embedded engineering community.

Additional Information :

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose To Make Our Lives Easier. As the industrys 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 21000 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 peoples 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. Lets 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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time