Senior Staff Engineer, Firmware Development
Renesas Electronics4 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead firmware and software architecture, design, and implementation for RH850 motor control and automotive application platforms.
- Drive technical decisions emphasizing scalability, performance, maintainability, and developer usability.
- Own firmware and software execution from concept through validation, qualification support, and release readiness.
- Collaborate with hardware, systems, validation, and applications teams on hardware-software integration.
- Develop SDKs, drivers, middleware, reference applications, and embedded development tools.
- Ensure deliverables meet automotive quality, reliability, and robustness expectations.
- Identify and mitigate software-related technical risks across platform development.
- Improve developer experience, documentation quality, and platform usability.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience.
- Strong expertise in embedded firmware and software development for automotive or real-time systems.
- Proven experience delivering production-quality embedded software for MCU-based platforms.
- Strong understanding of motor control software, real-time systems, and embedded development workflows.
- Hands-on knowledge of one or more host-side technology stacks, including C/C++ with RTOS, C#/.NET, Python, or UI frameworks such as Qt, WPF, or WinUI.
- Experience integrating host utilities with embedded targets through USB, UART, CAN/CAN-FD, Ethernet, or similar interfaces across operating system environments.
- Experience with embedded firmware ecosystems such as AUTOSAR drivers is advantageous.
- Experience building embedded development platforms or SDKs with broad adoption is advantageous.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package; further details are provided during the hiring process.
- Regular PERM employment.
- Remote work is not available.
About Renesas Electronics
Renesas Electronics designs and sells microcontrollers, analog and power ICs, and connectivity solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT manufacturers. Its portfolio spans embedded processing, power management and ADAS-ready components, sold directly and through channels to OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers, with software and development tools to integrate them. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Tokyo, it is a public company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and has expanded through acquisitions including Intersil and Dialog Semiconductor.