Sr. Staff MCU and Digital Power Application Engineer, Taipei
Renesas Electronics16 hours ago
Taipei, TaiwanStaff+
Responsibilities
- Provide expert technical support to customers using Renesas MCUs, PMICs, digital controllers, and power SoCs.
- Perform board bring-up, MCU peripheral configuration, and system-level debugging.
- Assist with digital power solutions involving DC-DC converters, PMICs, and MCU-based power control.
- Develop, debug, and optimize embedded firmware in C/C++ for bare-metal or RTOS environments.
- Develop proof-of-concept solutions and technical collateral combining MCU and power solutions.
- Design and tune digital control loops for voltage, current, power factor, and multi-phase systems.
- Troubleshoot control stability, efficiency, EMI, transient response, and thermal-performance issues.
- Collaborate with FAEs, marketing, and business-unit engineering teams on design-ins and customer escalations.
- Deliver technical training, workshops, and customer presentations on digital power solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, electronics engineering, or computer engineering; a master's degree is preferred.
- At least 8 years of professional industry experience in embedded systems and digital power applications.
- Hands-on experience with digital power or power-management systems.
- Strong understanding of digital control theory for power electronics.
- Familiarity with control-loop compensation, PID or digital compensators, ADCs, PWMs, comparators, and timers.
- Experience developing embedded MCU firmware in C.
- Working proficiency in English and fluency in Chinese.
- Preferred experience with MCU peripherals and UART, SPI, I²C, CAN, and Ethernet communication protocols.
- Preferred experience debugging power systems for efficiency, transient response, thermal performance, and EMI/EMC.
- Preferred familiarity with industrial factory automation, energy, and power infrastructure applications.
- Preferred experience developing reference boards, evaluation kits, or demo systems.
- Prior application-engineering, field-application-engineering, or customer-facing engineering experience is preferred.
- A proactive, agile, and results-oriented mindset is expected.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package; further details are provided during the hiring process.
- Regular permanent employment.
- No remote work; the role is not remote.
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.