Senior System SW validation engineer

## Company Description The Sr System Software Validation engineer serves as embedded and system software domain expert, driving software quality, evaluation and validation objectives, and technical execution while collaborating closely with systems, firmware/software, validation, and platform develop teams. As part of one of Renesas’s fastest growing product lines, you will have the opportunity to directly impact customer experience through work on software products that enable feature rich hardware to shine. If you like problem-solving, working with systems involving SW/FW/HW, and switching between multiple languages and paradigms, we’d like to hear from you. If you seek a place to shine with no artificial barriers apply now! ## Job Description - Lead software and system validation planning and execution of embedded products, applications and solutions utilizing a wide portfolio of Renesas products - Drive system level software technical decisions, ensuring robustness, usability and completeness of embedded solutions - Collaborate closely with systems, firmware/software, validation, and product engineering teams to ensure seamless hardware-software integration. - Identify and mitigate system-level technical risks, ensuring highest user experience - Planning and execution of new product prototype bring-up, bench-testing, and evaluation - Support creation and review of technical documentation (Datasheets, User Manuals/Guides, Application Notes etc) - Feedback findings, issues, potential improvements to product development teams - Contribute to reference designs, development platforms, and documentation to enable broad customer adoption. - Gather and drive clarity on software requirements from diverse groups including customers, application engineers, hardware, and firmware engineers - Contribute to both existing and new projects, covering a broad range of languages and scope. - Aid in code reviews for fellow team members, as required - Act as a technical mentor, influencing best practices and raising the bar for hardware design excellence. ## Qualifications - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Computer Science or Computer Engineering - 5-7 years experience in embedded firmware/software development required across multiple IoT application segments - Strong understanding of Software Architecture and Design principles, Behavior-Driven Development and unit testing approaches - High-level of proficiency in C/C++, Embedded C programming - Proven experience delivering production-quality embedded software for MCU-based platforms. - Solid understanding of motor control software, real-time systems, and embedded development workflows. - Working knowledge (hands-on preferred) of one or more host-side technology stacks, such as: - C/C++/ RTOS (FreeRTOS/Zephyr) C#/.NET / Python (automation/tools, GUIs, packaging) UI frameworks such as Qt, WPF/WinUI, or equivalent - Experience integrating host utilities with embedded targets over common interfaces (e.g., USB, UART, SPI, I2C, Ethernet) across OS environments. - Experience in developing Agentic Tools - Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail and accuracy - Demonstrates creative thinking in debug and troubleshooting skills and building solutions - Experience in DevOps including JIRA, Confluence and GitLab preferred - Must have highly developed written and verbal cross-functional communication skills - Ability to work effectively in a multicultural, cross-functional environment. ## Additional Information 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 &…