Senior Hardware Validation Engineer at Renesas Electronics — Plano, TX

• Lead hardware validation planning and execution of embedded products, applications and solutions utilizing a wide portfolio of Renesas products
• Drive hardware technical decisions, ensuring robustness, usability and completeness of hardware platforms
• Own hardware execution from ideation, validation through qualification and production readiness.
• Collaborate closely with systems, firmware/software, validation, and product engineering teams to ensure seamless hardware-software integration.
• Identify and mitigate hardware-related technical risks, ensuring highest user experience
• Planning and execution of new product prototype bring-up, bench-testing, and evaluation.
• Support creation and review of technical documentation (Datasheets, User Manuals/Guides, Application Notes etc)
• Feedback findings, issues, potential improvements to product development teams
• Contribute to reference designs, development platforms, and documentation to enable broad customer adoption.
• Act as a technical mentor, influencing best practices and raising the bar for hardware design excellence.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Computer Engineering, with at least 5- 7 years of experience
• 5-7 years of experience in embedded hardware and system design and validation encompassing microcontrollers, power management and analog/mixed-signal products
• Strong understanding of SoC architecture, ARM cores (A/M series), peripherals, power/clock/reset, and low-power design techniques.
• Very good understanding of electronic components like PMICs, MOSFETs, GaN, and other discretes
• Experience validating high-speed interfaces (e.g., DDR, USB, PCIe, MIPI, Ethernet) and standard protocols (SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, etc.).
• Knowledge of C/C++ or embedded programming for firmware development
• Hands-on experience with lab tools (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power analyzers, thermal sensors).
• Familiarity with validation frameworks, debug utilities (JTAG, Lauterbach, OpenOCD), and issue tracking systems (JIRA, Bugzilla).
• Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Hands-on experience with Signal Integrity (SI) and Power Integrity (PI) analysis for high-speed digital, mixed-signal, and power-dense designs.
• Applying best practices in schematic design, PCB layout, stack-up definition, decoupling strategies, and grounding.
• Proven experience delivering embedded hardware designs from concept through production.

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.