Design Director – Power Management IC(PMIC)

Design Director – Power Management IC(PMIC)

Looking for a highly experienced Design Director to join the 2.6B$ Power Business Unit where in the candidate will get to work on state-of-the-art PMIC products which complement Renesas’s offering of MCUs, MPUs and SOCs in both Automotive and Industrial areas. This is an early-stage growth opportunity where in the candidate will get to build and directly influence the future roadmap of PMIC products.

• Manage the design team achieving best in class power, performance and area while meeting or beating schedule.
• Mentor direct reports, giving appropriate guidance and support while being responsible for performance reviews
• Conduct appraisals, make remuneration decisions and proactively manage performance driving development of the team.
• Delegate project tasks appropriately, ensuring required methodologies and procedures are followed
• Represent team and input into corporate engineering processes, and methodology improvement discussions.
• Communicate company and team goals and ensure all team members identify the relationship between company strategy and their contribution.
• Collaborate with the VP of Engineering to drive recruitment strategy and take responsibility for direct hiring within team.
• Drive resource planning, making recommendations to VP of Engineering.
• Make significant contribution into Renesas’s Analog and Digital Design strategy, through representation at group management meetings, customer reviews and cross-site initiatives.
• Keep abreast of industry developments, driving continual improvements within team through effective change management.
• Provide support and guidance to technical project leads, to ensure successful project execution.
• Responsible for continual personal and professional development for all team members.
• Overseeing pre-production process flow is followed by group for own projects, ensuring outcomes are of high quality.
• Ensure the entire team follows procedures and design practices that are required by internal guidelines as well as expected from any state-of-the-art technology leader in the industry.
• Manage analog input into RFQ process.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree with 15-20 years of relevant industry experience.
• Expertise in power topologies, including buck, boost, buck-boost, charge pumps, and LDOs.
• In-depth knowledge of control architectures such as voltage mode, current mode, and hysteretic mode, applicable to DC/DC converters, LED drivers, and LDOs
• Strong understanding of semiconductor device physics, including device safe-operating areas (SOA) and power transistors used in high-frequency switching.
• Expertise in Analog IC circuit design as it relates to power conversion architectures, design tools, and methodologies. Experience with circuit blocks including bandgap references, op amps, OTAs, bias circuits, comparators, oscillators, DACs, ADCs, level shifters, switching power stages, LDOs, charge pumps, and glue logic.
• Full project lifecycle management, from concept and chip architecture to specification writing, process technology selection, die size estimation, schedule management, IC design, layout supervision, verification (DRC, LVS, LVL), and fabrication. Experience in bench correlation, corner lot characterization, hands-on lab evaluation, production release, yield improvement, and failure analysis support.
• Knowledge of board-level considerations, including component selection, PCB layout, packaging technologies, and thermal analysis.
• Familiarity with IC process technologies, reliability design rules, ESD, and latch-up testing.
• Understanding of industry standards and practices in relevant technologies.
• Design management experience, with multi-functional team leadership preferred.

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 & Connectivity, and Power.

 

With a diverse team of over 21,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable, power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow, ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’     

 

At Renesas, you can: 

• Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.  

• Make a real impact by developing innovative products and solutions to meet our global customers' evolving needs and help make people’s lives easier, safe and secure. 

• Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system, including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups, will help you excel from the first day.    

Are you ready to own your success and make your mark?  

Join Renesas. Let’s Shape the Future together.  

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