Senior Staff Edge Applications Engineer (Hardware & Embedded Lab Lead)
Renesas ElectronicsBase Salary
$140k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the physical lab, including facilities, equipment, procurement, and project scheduling for customer PoCs and internal R&D.
- Lead assembly and fabrication of prototype rigs, sensor arrays, 3D-printed mounts, and microelectronic setups.
- Instrument physical systems and capture, clean, and preprocess high-frequency acoustic, vibration, electrical, and motor-current data.
- Design DSP feature-extraction pipelines involving FFTs, spectral analysis, and filtering.
- Deploy optimized and quantized TinyML models to ARM Cortex-M and Renesas microcontrollers.
- Debug embedded firmware and hardware using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, JTAG/SWD, and low-level interfaces.
- Collaborate with customers and internal product teams on hardware telemetry, edge firmware issues, and live demonstrations.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers in firmware debugging, signal processing, and physical prototype fabrication.
Requirements
- M.S. or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Applied Physics, or a related technical discipline; BSEE candidates with extensive demonstrable lab leadership experience will also be evaluated.
- 7–12+ years of hands-on experience in embedded software, physical hardware prototyping, DSP, and real-time edge computing.
- Expertise in physical system fabrication, 3D printing, electrical assembly, PCB bring-up, and low-level hardware debugging.
- Strong C/C++ programming skills for constrained microcontrollers and experience with bare-metal or RTOS-based systems.
- Experience with FreeRTOS or Zephyr, DMA buffer management, and SPI, I2C, UART, and CAN drivers.
- Deep understanding of DSP for time-series or audio data and practical experience deploying quantized machine-learning models to microcontrollers.
- Experience with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, JTAG/SWD, and physical prototype rigs.
- Ability to lead lab projects, collaborate with customers and cross-functional teams, and mentor junior engineers.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, health savings account, flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, LTD, short-term medical benefits, and pet insurance.
- Paid sick time, paid holidays, accrued paid vacation, and company-paid life insurance and AD&D for benefited employees.
- Eligible for bonus opportunities and commission pay.
- Regular PERM employment; no remote work, with the role based in the physical lab in Columbia, Maryland.
- No SCIF or security clearance is required.
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About Renesas Electronics
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.’