Sr PrincipalTech Director – Silicon Validation Engineering

Renesas is looking for a Sr Principal/Technical Director of Silicon Validation Engineering to redefine how automotivegrade silicon quality is builtdriving firsttimeright silicon eliminating customer escapes and setting a new industry benchmark for validation excellence

 Key Responsibilities

• Define and own the endtoend silicon validation strategy for automotive and HPC SoCs from presilicon enablement through postsilicon production release.
• Ensure firsttimeright silicon robust validation coverage and zero customer escapes across all assigned programs.
• Lead global validation teams responsible for silicon bringup characterization and systemlevel validation across multiple concurrent programs.
• Establish and drive a System Use Case Validation Program harvesting real customer/OEM and system scenarios and converting them into automated traceable validation suites.
• Influence SoC architecture design and program decisions through early validation insights risk identification and databacked recommendations.
• Drive shiftleft validation as a measurable engineering program increasing reuse across simulation emulation/FPGA and silicon to reduce late surprises.
• Own escapeprevention strategy including robustness testing fault scenarios coverage models and disciplined validation signoff criteria.
• Build and scale highperforming validation organizations developing strong technical leadership (Staff/Principal pipeline) and execution ownership.
• Lead automation standardization and infrastructure modernization across validation labs board farms and CI systems.
• Establish validation methodologies quality benchmarks metrics and dashboards aligned with Renesas standards and automotive expectations.
• Identify technical execution and program risks early; drive datadriven mitigation and executive decisionmaking.
• Provide clear executivelevel reporting on validation status risks readiness and outcomes.
• Act as a trusted partner to Design DV Test Firmware Software Product Engineering Quality and BU leadership.
• Adoption of industry best practices as a measurable program

Qualifications :

Required Skills & Experience

• B.E./B. Tech or M.E./M. Tech in Electronics Electrical or Computer Engineering or equivalent industry experience.
• 18 years of experience in semiconductor validation characterization or silicon engineering with demonstrated ownership of silicon quality outcomes.
• 3 years in senior technical leadership roles leading multiteam or multisite organizations.
• Strong domain expertise in automotive SoC validation systemlevel usecase testing and robustness validation.
• Proven experience delivering complex SoC programs from first silicon through production release.
• Deep understanding of silicon validation flows lab environments and postsilicon debug ecosystems.
• Demonstrated success building and scaling automationfirst validation frameworks using Python C or similar technologies.
• Strong experience driving crossfunctional execution in a matrixed global environment.
• Excellent executive communication stakeholder management and decisionmaking skills.
• Experience with AI frameworks for SoC Validation efficiency and quality gain eg validation specific AI agents Cody AI for content development etc.

Preferred

• Experience with ISO 26262 / ASILD development and validation environments.
• Exposure to emulation/FPGAbased shiftleft validation and prepost silicon continuity models.
• Strong foundation in mixedsignal and digital silicon validation including patternbased and systemlevel methodologies.
• Track record of institutionalizing industry best practices across multiple programs and organizations.
• Experience leading culture change toward proactive risk ownership evidencebased closure and challengeready execution.
• Automotive OEM or Tier1 customer engagement experience.

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