Sr. Mgr, System Engineering

Job description

In this role, you will lead a team of product definers and applications engineers for supporting DC-DC power products for industrial and enterprise server market. In this leadership role, you will interface with customers to understand their usage of DC-DC converters to lead the definition and roadmap for next-gen products. This is a highly hands-on technical leadership role where you will work directly with customers to solve complex system-level power challenges and drive adoption of Renesas solutions.

You will provide technical leadership across design, validation, marketing, and field organizations to deliver differentiated power solutions.

Principal Accountabilities

Partner with customers, sales, and marketing to identify emerging market trends and translate customer requirements into product roadmaps and technology investments for enterprise server market. Collaborate with customers, sales, product line marketing, applications, design and validation engineers to define architecture and specifications. Build, mentor and develop a high-performing systems & applications team, establishing technical excellence in the following areas: Customer focused execution to build innovative products which solve system problems.

Benchmark existing solutions to understand the state of the art. Silicon bring up and testing of key system performance parameters. Design and develop proof-of-concepts and reference designs of power solutions for server market. Develop calculators, simulation models, datasheet for releasing new products to market. Perform system-level analysis for power integrity, thermal performance, and fault response. Create application notes and reference designs demonstrating new products in real-world use cases.

Support customers and internal teams with design reviews and debugging for product adoption. Support customers in usage of released products and solving any problems which arise when using these products.

Qualifications

Minimum Masters/PhD in Electrical or Electronics engineering with 15+ years experience Strong expertise in power electronics including DC-DC converters. Experience in direct interface with sales and customers to lead the product roadmap. Expertise in analog circuits, control theory and feedback loop analysis. Hands-on experience with PCB schematics/layout and CAD tools. Familiarity with power integrity analysis and simulation tools (PSpice, Simplis, MATLAB).

Skilled in lab debugging and validation techniques. Ability to travel domestically and internationally to support customer engagements and strategic business initiatives. Preferred Proven experience leading and developing a Systems, Applications, or Power Architecture team of 4-8 engineers in a semiconductor or power electronics environment. Experience with server/telecom power architectures. Experience with digital communications protocols like I2C, PMBus etc.

Experience with generating collateral like datasheets, user guides and training & promotion materials. Strong communication and collaboration skills.