Senior Staff Digital Systems & Emulation Engineer

Renesas is seeking an experienced Senior Staff Digital Systems & Emulation Engineer  to develop and drive advanced pre-silicon emulation and digital system validation for next-generation power management products targeting AI datacenter and high-performance computing applications. 

This role will focus on bridging system architecture digital design FPGA/emulation control algorithms and hardware validation enabling complex digital power-management functions to be exercised and validated ahead of silicon availability. 

The successful candidate will combine strong digital design fundamentals with hands-on FPGA and emulation expertise and a working knowledge of digital signal processing and control techniques. The engineer will work closely with System Architecture Digital Design Firmware Design Verification Analog/Mixed-Signal Design Applications and Validation teams to translate product requirements and algorithms into executable real-time prototypes. 

The position is a senior individual-contributor role with significant technical ownership and influence on emulation architecture methodology and future development platforms. 

Key Responsibilities 

Emulation & FPGA Development 

• Architect develop and maintain FPGA-based emulation platforms for advanced digital power controllers and mixed-signal power-management products. 

• Map and integrate production or representative RTL into FPGA/emulation environments for pre-silicon feature development and validation. 

• Develop reusable FPGA infrastructure interfaces test capabilities and debug methodologies supporting multiple product generations. 

• Develop and improve build configuration automation and debug flows to make emulation environments accessible and repeatable across engineering teams. 

• Support integration of FPGA/emulated controllers with real power stages loads instrumentation and system-level hardware. 

• Identify differences between ASIC and FPGA implementation and develop appropriate strategies to maintain meaningful system-level behavior and correlation. 

Digital Systems & RTL 

• Understand and contribute to digital system architecture microarchitecture and RTL implementation where required. 

• Analyze timing latency clock-domain interface datapath and real-time execution requirements relevant to system behavior. 

• Develop or modify synthesizable RTL blocks required for emulation instrumentation prototyping and architectural exploration. 

• Support integration and debug of digital interfaces ADC/DAC data paths PWM generation telemetry protection functions state machines and embedded control logic. 

• Work with Digital Design and Verification teams to correlate behavior between behavioral models RTL simulation emulation and silicon. 

DSP & Control Algorithm Implementation 

• Support implementation and evaluation of digital control and signal-processing functions used within power-management systems. 

• Translate mathematical or system-level algorithms into practical fixed-point and real-time digital implementations. 

• Evaluate effects of sampling rate latency quantization numerical precision filtering and computational architecture on system performance. 

• Implement and evaluate digital filters signal conditioning control-loop functions and related DSP algorithms where required. 

• Collaborate with system architects to rapidly prototype new algorithms before committing them to production RTL. 

System-Level Validation 

• Develop system-level emulation scenarios representing realistic customer use cases and operating conditions. 

• Define measurable pass/fail criteria and validation methodologies for new architectural features. 

• Correlate emulation results with simulation behavioral models bench measurements and silicon measurements where available. 

• Support pre-silicon validation of control-loop behavior transient response telemetry protection mechanisms sequencing communication interfaces and other system-level functions. 

• Perform detailed debug across hardware RTL firmware and system boundaries to identify root causes of complex issues. 

Methodology & Technical Leadership 

• Define and improve methodologies for FPGA prototyping and emulation of mixed-signal and digitally controlled power systems. 

• Develop reusable architectures automation scripts and engineering workflows that reduce setup and debug time. 

• Participate in architecture design and verification reviews and provide technical guidance on emulation feasibility and implementation trade-offs. 

• Work independently on complex technical problems and drive issues to resolution across organizational boundaries. 

• Mentor engineers in FPGA digital design emulation and system-debug techniques. 

• Document architecture implementation test methodology limitations and results to enable reuse across programs. 

Qualifications :

Required 

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or a related discipline. 

• 10 years of relevant industry experience in digital design FPGA development emulation or related semiconductor development. 

• Strong hands-on experience with FPGA architecture implementation integration and debug. 

• Strong knowledge of Verilog and/or SystemVerilog RTL design. 

• Good understanding of digital design fundamentals including clocks resets CDC state machines datapaths pipelining timing and hardware interfaces. 

• Experience with FPGA synthesis implementation timing analysis and hardware bring-up. 

• Experience developing scripting and automation using Python TCL shell or similar languages. 

• Hands-on experience debugging complex interactions between RTL firmware/software and hardware. 

• Ability to interpret system requirements and translate them into practical emulation and validation architectures. 

• Strong technical documentation and communication skills. 

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively across geographically distributed and cross-functional engineering teams. 

Preferred 

• Experience with semiconductor pre-silicon emulation or FPGA prototyping. 

• Experience with major FPGA platforms and development environments. 

• Knowledge of digital signal processing including digital filters fixed-point arithmetic sampling quantization and signal-processing datapaths. 

• Understanding of digital control systems and feedback-loop concepts. 

• Experience with digital power management multiphase voltage regulators PMICs or mixed-signal ICs. 

• Familiarity with ADC/DAC interfaces PWM generation telemetry high-speed digital interfaces and real-time control systems. 

• Experience correlating behavioral models RTL simulations FPGA/emulation results and laboratory measurements. 

• Familiarity with Python-based modeling data analysis and automated hardware validation. 

• Experience developing reusable FPGA/emulation platforms supporting multiple products or development teams. 

Key Attributes 

The ideal candidate is a hands-on senior technical contributor who is comfortable moving between system concepts algorithms RTL FPGA implementation and laboratory hardware. The candidate should be able to take an architectural concept determine how it can be emulated implement the required infrastructure demonstrate it operating in real time and provide objective data that allows the engineering team to make product decisions.

Additional Information :

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose To Make Our Lives Easier. With a global team of over 21000 engineers and problem solvers in more than 30 countries we offer the opportunity to work on worldleading technology for Automotive Industrial Infrastructure and IoT shaping a safer healthier greener and smarter future.

At Renesas TAGIE is our culture grounded in being Transparent Agile Global Innovative and Entrepreneurial. It shapes how we work grow and deliver on our purpose together. This collaborative spirit and mindset drive our semiconductor technology to transform industries and impact millions of lives.

We believe in rewarding our employees with a competitive benefits package alongside their salary. More information will be provided during the hiring process.

Are you ready to join our team and shape the future with us

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time