Director – Engineering (MCU)

Role Overview

Renesas is seeking a Director MCU to lead and scale our microcontroller portfolio under the IndiaforIndia (IFI) charter. This role is central to defining product strategy architecture and flawless execution of MCU platforms tailored to Indias fastgrowing market needswhile remaining globally competitive.

The position combines strong business acumen deep technical leadership people management and crossfunctional execution ownership. The Director will drive decisions from build vs. buy architecture and silicon execution through customer engagement and product delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead MCU build decisions define execution strategy and assemble highperforming teams for product delivery.
• Own portfolio decision making and executionfrom concept through silicon bringup validation and productionensuring quality schedule and cost targets are met.

• Drive MCU architecture microarchitecture and design requirements aligned with market customer and system needs.
• Provide technical leadership across RTL design performance optimization and poweraware architectures (UPFbased lowpower design).

• Collaborate closely with IP technology packaging and global crossfunctional teams to ensure coherent system and silicon decisions.
• Act as the technical bridge across architecture RTL physical design verification software validation test and system teams.
• Support silicon validation system integration and production test readiness.

• Liaise closely with software and product teams to ensure firmware drivers and ecosystem readiness align with silicon delivery.

• Work with Sales Marketing and customers as needed to define roadmaps clarify requirements manage technical discussions and support key engagements.

• Drive strong decisionmaking  across Technology Packaging IP Architecture Implementation Test and Product Engineering.
• Build and mentor teams establish execution discipline and foster a resultsdriven qualityfocused engineering culture.

Qualifications :

Qualifications & Experience

• / in Electrical Engineering Electronics or Computer Science.
• 15 years of experience in SoC / IP / MCU design with 5 years in technical leadership or management roles.
• Deep expertise in processorbased controller architectures including ARMbased MCUs DMA and interfaces such as USB PCIe SPI and other peripherals.
• Working familiarity with RTL. Design Verification DFT Physical Design Software and Silicon Validation flows.
• Proficiency with scripting and design automation tools.
• Ability to balance handson technical depth with strategic and organizational leadership.
• Excellent communication structured problemsolving and experience leading globally distributed crossdisciplinary teams.

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