Senior Field Applications Engineer (FAE)

As a Senior Field Applications Engineer (FAE) you will play a major role in the expansion of our market-leading digital products (MCUs & SoCs), analog and power by providing outstanding application engineering support to our customers. You will also play a key role in the definition of the next generation of Renesas Automotive Products working closely to the customer engineering teams and to Renesas application engineering and marketing teams.

The preferred candidate is someone who actively listens to their business partners and enjoys building trustful relationships. Confident with setting ambitious goals, making use of the knowledge of the team members and sharing knowledge. Furthermore, someone who keeps profitability in mind and can prioritize technical activities from a commercial point of view would excel in this role.

Responsibilities

Drive the design-in activities of the complete product portfolio in automotive applications such as IVI, ADAS, xEV, Vehicle Controls etc. working with Automotive OEM customers.; Define new products in close cooperation with our innovative customers and our internal technical marketing and applications teams.; Act as a technical interface and consult our customers during the development of all automotive applications with particular focus on OEMs.; Derive customer system requirements and market trends to develop system value propositions together with internal interfaces (Product Marketers, Application Engineers, System Architects).; Build a good understanding of different product architectures and partner ecosystem to suggest/guide customers, to arrive at an optimal system design.; Actively manage projects together with the Sales and Marketing departments to achieve design-in targets for the complete Renesas automotive product portfolio.; Establish and maintain excellent relationships with the customer engineering departments with particular focus on OEMs.; Proactively connect with global cross-functional teams, expand your internal network, and share your experience to drive global business expansion.; Lead technical discussions with System Architects and Application Engineering experts to jointly define application roadmaps and product technical requirements.; Collaborate internally with Application Engineers and Product Marketers and externally with local and global partners to develop documentation (fighting guides, application notes, whitepapers) and system demonstrators combining software and hardware.; Perform measurements in our laboratory within the scope of actual customer projects.; Present Renesas’ technologies, products, and applications in technical seminars.

Requirements

5+ years of related FAE work experience, including experience with automotive applications & customers.; Understand automotive system technical requirements and propose optimized products and solutions.; Knowledge about semiconductors including SoC, MCU, Analog & Power products.; Experience with OS / Frameworks (Linux, QNX, AUTOSAR, RTOS).; Proficient in multi-threaded programming and middleware solution development in different OS environments. Strong in fundamentals of IPC and OS concepts.; Working knowledge on Automotive Functional Safety and Cybersecurity concepts.; Proficient in Power and Thermal management at system level.; Experience in Vehicle Architecture / Networks design.; Hands-on system bring-up, testing, and debugging skills.; Hands-on experience with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and other standard lab equipment.; Fluent Japanese language ability (JOEM customer facing role); Conversation level English (ability to report internally in English on a weekly basis)