Job Description

The person will have a high visible role in fueling the growth of Renesas fast-growing line of SoC and software products for automotive applications. Success requires a clear understanding of overall embedded automotive systems, and deep knowledge of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and neural networks as well as computer vision, image, radar and Lidar processing in an automotive environment.

To solidify Renesas’s position in embedded ADAS application, the Sr. reference application engineer will have critical contribution to customer satisfaction by providing ease to use solution that supports quick launch of their product.

The successful candidate must have strong self-motivation and sense of initiative, excellent interpersonal skills, and be able to work in a truly global environment across various functional organizations such as Applications Engineering, Software development, Design Engineering, Product Marketing, and Sales. He must contribute actively to the transformational changes that bring the best out of a multicultural workforce.

Lead development and definition of advanced ADAS reference application (Surround View, Vision computing, Image quality enhancement w/ ISP, and HW accelerator) use cases leveraging Renesas’s SoC and software infrastructure.
Initiate and coordinate the development of reference application and guide document, and the maturity improvement activity of our ADAS SoC platform.
Enhance capabilities by extending the support of reference application, HW accelerate usecase, and Vision computing.
Providing support to our customers as application engineer to accelerate development of customer solution and to create ease to use solution like application note.
Work closely with hardware and software product development organization to validate performance of SoC and optimize various benchmark and reference application and power consumption.
Collaborate with sales, automotive product line marketing and applications engineers to generate winning reference software stacks & application demos needed to establish clear dominance through best-in-class overall whole product.
Work closely with the marketing, applications, and field sales/FAE teams of other Renesas Electronics’ business units to successfully define innovative ADAS solutions and work with a cross-functional team to coordinate product promotion and demand creation within specific regions.
Providing support to field teams as needed to generate opportunities and facilitate design-ins.
Stay abreast of latest technology trends in the field of ADAS solutions; develop recommendations and competitive feature set to keep the hardware and software product at the cutting edge and best-in-class through continuous improvement.
Support Director of automotive product line and interact with other group managers to ensure successful deployment of strategic initiatives.

*The full details regarding your position scope as well as any future potential changes in work location and job scope will be provided during the interview process.

Qualifications

10+ years industry experience in embedded system development.
Strong, hands-on knowledge of neural networks frameworks like TensorFlow or Pytorch, Machine Learning algorithms and automotive operating systems (Linux, QNX) software development environments.
Embedded system software design experience including low-level firmware, kernel and user-space components. Software debugging
Systems architecture experience for heterogeneous / multi-core computing platforms consisting of ARMs, GPUs, and specialized AI, image processing hardware accelerators in embedded SoC systems.
Some travel required regionally and worldwide to engage with customers (Tier1 and OEMs) to drive software product engagement, understand system level issues and deliver continuous improvement.
Has a hands-on mentality to drive different topics pro-actively.
Strong analytical skills and have a winning mentality.
Strives for continual improvement in all aspects of work including policies and methodology.
Strong leadership skills with an ability to foster a commercial, collaborative and learning environment.
Collaborating with senior leadership to develop team objectives in accordance with wider company strategy.
Cross cultural awareness and sensitivity.
Results-oriented and able to deliver on-time under tight schedule pressure.
Ability to work both independently and part of a team.
Flexible to undertake occasional international travel at short notice.
Excellent command of verbal and written English.
Ability to propose innovative solutions.
Excellent interpersonal communication skills
Excellent command of verbal and written Japanese.

Company Description

The automotive High Performance Compute (HPC) team is seeking an senior application engineer to drive reference application development and customer engagement in the field of ADAS/Autonomous Driving (AD) for its SOC automotive product line. In connections with customers and key partners in automotive industry, the position is an excellent opportunity to take a leadership role and collaborate extensively with various global teams including SOC design, software development and product marketing to establish undisputed leadership in embedded neural networks processing for Renesas’s SoC solutions in the booming world of ADAS, and L3/L4 autonomous driving solutions. This high-impact role will enable a successful candidate to deliver value by accelerating the deployment of advanced ADAS to our tailored automotive SoC and high-performance software solution and contribute to transforming the future of mobility.

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