Staff Engineer, Software Architect

• Linux/u-boot/Android experience
  • Device driver development
  • System programming & integration
  • System tuning (boot time, QoS)
• RTOS experience (Zephyr/FreeRTOS)
  • Driver development
  • Inter-core communication
• Hypervisor
  • Working knowledge on any hypervisor environment such as Xen
  • Working knowledge of SMMU and virtualization approaches.
• Domains/Peripherals
  • Display, Camera and video pipeline experience is preferred.
  • Realization of ADAS/IVI use cases on any heterogeneous platform.
  • Overall automotive system knowledge.
• Tools
  • Git/Gerrit
  • Open source
  • Pre silicon environment tools
  • Performance optimization tools
  • Hands on debugging expertise on heterogeneous SoC environments

• OSS developer experience
• OSS project leadership experience
  • Act as reviewer
  • Act as maintainer
  • Project operation support (Steering committee member) will add value

• OSS conference presentation experience will be an added plus point
• Other industry conferences/paper submissions.

Education and Background:

• Bachelors or Master graduate (Electronics or Computer Science)
• Over 5+ years of embedded SW development on Linux/Android/Zephyr/FreeRTOS
• Expected role at Renesas
  • Work closely with the requirements teams and/or customers to derive next gen requirements
  • Develop advanced proof of concepts
  • Work on the latest open-source software and adapt for Renesas Gen5 platforms.
• Relevant Experiences (Combination of good-to-have and must-have):
• Overall:
  • Relevant industry experience in embedded software development with a proven track record in translating complex use cases requirements into design, system specifications, standards, and software solutions. Focus shall be on open-source software.
  • Ability to work independently with strong motivation towards meeting deadlines with efficiency and focus
• Architecture
  • System architecture experience for heterogeneous / multi-core embedded SoC computing platforms.
• Development
  • Embedded system software development experience including low level firmware, kernel, and user space components on an SoC product comparable to the Renesas R-Car family
  • Ability to develop and debug on both real hardware as well as simulation and emulation environments
• Debug:
  • Ability to debug complex system level use cases involving hardware and software elements such as bandwidth/QoS knobs.
  • Software debugging including CLI, PCB, and application level debug techniques
  • Ability to debug high speed communication interfaces including HW/SW co-debug
• Collaboration:
  • Ability to collaborate with sales, marketing, architecture, customer, partners, and other groups to create best in class reference solutions, solve problems, and enable customer success
  • Ability to expand upon existing solutions in collaboration with architects and prior design teams
  • Ability to work independently as well as in small teams
• Communication:
  • Excellent written and verbal communication due to frequent customer and internal communications; ability to provide direct, efficient, and clear customer communications under pressure
  • Familiarity with global business cultures (Japan, Europe, US, India) and strong cross-cultural sensitivity
  • Familiarity with verbal and written Japanese (nice to have)
• Travel:
  • Flexibility to manage occasional international travel on short notice to support customer success or internal initiatives