Staff Software Development Engineer
Renesas Electronics3 days ago
Cambridge, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction and make long-term design decisions for Altium’s Developer Center and platform capabilities.
- Lead the public release and continued evolution of APIs, SDKs, developer tools, documentation, and developer infrastructure.
- Design and evolve externally used APIs with attention to versioning, backward compatibility, and deprecation.
- Build capabilities for enterprise customers, partners, Professional Services, and developers integrating with Altium products.
- Develop and support MCP servers, the MCP gateway, and the wider agentic platform.
- Drive technical changes across teams without direct management authority.
- Represent Altium’s platform to colleagues, partners, enterprise customers, and technology companies.
- Review, test, and verify output from AI coding tools.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong C#/.NET skills.
- Staff-level or equivalent technical leadership experience, including setting direction and driving cross-team changes.
- Deep experience designing and evolving APIs for external developers.
- Experience building developer-facing products such as SDKs, developer tools, platforms, or developer portals.
- Experience with enterprise software, preferably including identity and SSO, integrations, or on-premises deployments.
- Strong communication skills with colleagues, partners, and customers, including user-facing documentation.
- Interest in teaching and sharing technical expertise.
- Hands-on use of AI coding tools with disciplined testing, review, and verification.
- Preferred experience with GraphQL federation, distributed schema design, domain-driven design, Python, TypeScript, NuGet, npm, PyPI, open source, SAML, OIDC, OAuth, PLM integrations, software licensing, MCP servers, LLM-based tools, agentic systems, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, EDA or PCB design tools, Altium products, or the electronics industry.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package alongside salary.
- Regular PERM employment.
- Remote work is not available.
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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.