Staff AMS Design Verification Engineering

Renesas is one of the top global semiconductor companies in the world. We strive to develop a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter world, and our goal is to make every endpoint intelligent by offering product solutions in the automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT markets. Our robust product portfolio includes world-leading MCUs, SoCs, analog and power products, plus Winning Combination solutions that curate these complementary products. We are a key supplier to the world’s leading manufacturers of electronics you rely on every day; you may not see our products, but they are all around you. 

Renesas employs roughly 21,000 people in more than 30 countries worldwide. As a global team, our employees actively embody the Renesas Culture, our guiding principles based on five key elements: Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial. Renesas believes in, and has a commitment to, diversity and inclusion, with initiatives and a leadership team dedicated to its resources and values. At Renesas, we want to build a sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. Join us and build your future by being part of what’s next in electronics and the world.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Serve as the main point of contact between the local verification team and US-based Design and Verification teams.
• Facilitate seamless collaboration among teams spread across various time zones, applying strong communication and planning skills to synchronize efforts and meet project deadlines.
• Work across teams to integrate design verification processes, targeting first pass silicon success, adherence to performance and coverage goals, and schedule compliance.
• Build and lead a high-performing team, fostering a unified verification mindset that merges AMS and Digital methodologies, and mentoring staff to promote innovation and a deep understanding of the DUT.
• Conduct regular performance reviews and mentorship, delegate tasks efficiently, and ensure all activities align with internal best practices and schedule requirements.
• Monitor and report project progress, identify and take corrective actions promptly, contribute to corporate engineering process enhancements, and stay updated with industry trends to drive continuous improvement within the team.
• Represent the team in strategic discussions, including group management meetings and cross-site initiatives, and clearly communicate team and company objectives to align individual contributions with the company's strategy.
• Perform any ad hoc tasks as deemed reasonable by your manager.

Key Performance Measures:

• Develop the technical and non-technical skillset of the team, ensuring clear career development and progression. Demonstrate effective performance management.
• Ensure budget is appropriately managed and resource is utilised to maximise success of deliverables.
• Ensure high quality deliverables in project through effective leadership and risk management.
• Appropriate planning and delegation of tasks to ensure project timescales and quality expectations are met.
• Ensure impactful dissemination of knowledge across team.
• Ensure effective team profiling, through succession planning, development, and strategic talent acquisition.
• Demonstrate elements of Spirit of Renesas in all aspects of work
• Instils culture of innovation, professionalism, and collaboration throughout team.

Technical Skills

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in mixed-signal design verification and at least 5 years of experience managing a team of verification engineers.
• Strong fundamentals in mixed signal designs, including a thorough understanding of analog building blocks, digital design processes, and top-level integration.
• Writing and maintaining Analog Mixed Signal models, using real number modelling and VerilogAMS.
• Good understanding of PMIC ICs and DC-DC converters.
• Experienced in setting up and maintaining mixed signal testbench from scratch with the capability to debug and optimize mixed signal simulation performance, understanding the necessary trade-offs.
• Strong simulation debug capability, able to analyze simulation waveforms and pinpoint issues in schematics simulation, models or RTL.
• Expertise in Cadence vManager for Verification Planning, Regression Flow, and Coverage Analysis.
• Experience with Cadence Mixed-Signal Design Environment tools, including Virtuoso, ADE Assembler, and Xcelium.
• Strong understanding of Unix environment and shell scripting, alongside working knowledge of Python.
• Experience with functionally safe design verification and fault injection is highly desirable.

Non-Technical Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• In-depth understanding of organizational objectives, with keen insights into business trends and market conditions.
• Awareness and sensitivity to cross-cultural dynamics.
• Results-driven with the ability to deliver on tight schedules and under pressure.
• Flexibility for occasional international travel, often on short notice.
• Results-oriented and able to deliver on-time under tight schedule pressure.
• Provide frequent reports on progress status and roadblocks, ensuring transparent communication with stakeholders.
• Effectively manage project tasks and issues using JIRA, showcasing strong organizational and tracking abilities.

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 21,000 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. Let’s 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.