Senior Staff Engineer, SoC Application Engineering

The High Performance Compute (HPC) SoC Business Division is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer SoC Application Engineering Robotics & GPU to provide technical leadership for customer and partner development using the Renesas R-Car SoC family.

This position will play an integral role in the global effort to position Renesas as the premier semiconductor partner for humanoid robot subsystems winning design-ins at strategic accounts distribution partners and mass-market customers through targeted engineering optimized AI solutions and workflows and strategic ecosystem partnerships.

A primary focus of this role will be enabling the brain AI perception compute and control functionality of humanoid and advanced robotic platforms using R-Car SoCs.

The successful candidate will combine strong embedded SoC expertise with hands-on experience in robotics GPU and heterogeneous compute AI workloads system-level debugging and performance optimization.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a senior technical lead for R-Car based humanoid robotics physical AI autonomous systems and advanced robotic platforms.

• Lead collaboration with the Physical AI & Humanoid Lab to develop robotic platforms prototypes proof-of-concepts and demonstrations.

• Lead ecosystem partner project execution to develop robotic reference designs and reusable customer solutions.

• Support customer and partner programs from architecture and platform bring-up through software integration debugging performance optimization validation and production.

• Lead root-cause analysis of complex hardware/software issues across:

  • Linux/Ubuntu

  • ROS2 and robotics middleware

  • GPU and AI accelerators

  • Device drivers and firmware

  • Memory management and SMMU/IOMMU

  • IPC and heterogeneous multicore systems

  • AI runtimes and inference pipelines

  • System performance latency and memory bandwidth

• Analyze customer robotic architectures and requirements against R-Car capabilities and identify technical gaps risks and recommended solutions.

• Support customer RFI/RFQ activities architecture reviews design reviews and technical debug sessions.

• Develop robotic proof-of-concepts demonstrations reference applications and benchmarks showcasing R-Car SoC capabilities.

• Provide technical expertise in GPU compute and heterogeneous processing including CPU/GPU/NPU workload partitioning synchronization memory movement and performance optimization.

• Support GPU and compute technologies such as Vulkan Vulkan Compute OpenCL OpenGL ES and OpenVX.

• Analyze and optimize system performance across CPU GPU NPU DSP memory and other hardware accelerators.

• Support robotic workloads including perception sensor fusion localization mapping motion planning navigation manipulation and AI inference.

• Work with Renesas global engineering teams customers and ecosystem partners to define requirements for future R-Car SoCs AI software tools and robotic reference platforms.

Qualifications :

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Masters or Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering Computer Science Robotics or a related field.

• 10 years of experience in embedded systems semiconductor application engineering robotics automotive electronics or related fields.

• Strong embedded development and debugging experience using C and C.

• Deep understanding of embedded SoC architecture including CPU GPU memory firmware operating systems drivers middleware and hardware accelerators.

• Strong hands-on experience with embedded Linux and complex system-level debugging.

• Experience with BSPs bootloaders Linux kernel device drivers firmware and user-space applications.

• Strong understanding of heterogeneous multicore architectures memory management IPC DMA shared memory and hardware accelerators.

• Hands-on knowledge of GPU architecture and GPU compute.

• Experience with one or more of Vulkan OpenCL OpenGL ES Vulkan Compute or OpenVX.

• Experience with system and GPU performance analysis using tracing profiling logging and debugging tools.

• Familiarity with embedded AI/ML workloads and deployment on heterogeneous SoCs.

• Strong problem-solving customer-facing and technical communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Renesas R-Car or comparable high-performance SoCs.

• Strong experience with Ubuntu Linux.

• Hands-on experience with ROS2 including application development integration debugging and deployment.

• Experience developing or integrating humanoid robots autonomous mobile robots robotic manipulators or other physical AI systems.

• Experience with robotic perception sensor fusion localization mapping motion planning navigation or control.

• Experience with Imagination/PowerVR or comparable embedded GPU architectures.

• Experience with GPU profiling and system performance tools.

• Experience with embedded AI frameworks and runtimes such as PyTorch TensorFlow ONNX OpenCV or vendor-specific AI SDKs.

• Experience optimizing AI models and workloads for embedded inference.

• Experience integrating robotic sensors including cameras LiDAR radar IMUs encoders or force/torque sensors.

• Experience developing robotic demonstrations proof-of-concepts reference platforms or semiconductor reference designs.

Key Attributes

The successful candidate will be a highly technical hands-on engineer capable of working across robotics AI GPU and heterogeneous compute embedded software system debugging performance optimization customer engagement and ecosystem development.

This Senior Staff-level individual contributor will independently lead complex technical engagements and help establish Renesas R-Car as a leading compute platform for humanoid robotics and physical AI.

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