
Firmware Engineer (f/m/d) for Embedded / Automotive / ASIP RISC‑-V
Renesas Electronics2 months ago
Germering, GermanySenior
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with system architects, product definition, and hardware development teams.
- Define, customize, and optimize ASIP RISC-V architectures.
- Design and implement firmware for deeply embedded application-specific microcontrollers and DSPs.
- Define and refine firmware requirements and architecture.
- Develop and execute unit tests, integration tests, and firmware validation strategies.
- Establish and maintain toolchains, simulation environments, and debug workflows.
- Analyze and optimize performance in constrained real-time environments.
- Ensure implementation compliance with ISO 26262 functional-safety standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Strong expertise in embedded C programming in bare-metal environments and assembly language.
- Proficiency with compilers, debuggers, linkers, simulators, emulators, static-analysis tools, and testing tools.
- Understanding of memory-constrained and real-time systems, register-level hardware interaction, and CPU architecture principles.
- Experience with signal-processing basics, including FIR/IIR filters and ADC data handling.
- Experience with Python or similar scripting languages for test automation and tooling.
- Good understanding of ASPICE and ISO 26262 software-development processes.
- Professional working proficiency in written and spoken English.
Benefits
- Regular permanent employment (PERM).
- Remote work is not available.
- Competitive benefits package provided alongside salary.
- Equal opportunity and affirmative-action employment environment.
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.