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# Principal Digital Design Engineer

- **Company:** RENESAS ELECTRONICS AMERICA INC.
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $190,000.0 - $240,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Very-Large-Scale Integration, Software Debugging, Logic Synthesis of Circuits, Dynamic Random-Access Memory, Flash Memory, Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
- **Published:** July 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/D6B209CAF4F2472389E25B3DE13A7B00/job/

## About the Role

* Education: MSEE or PH.D. in Electrical Engineering with 8+ years of relevant industry experience.
 * Experience as a people manager or team lead position, people management skills
 * Proven experience in SOC architecture, AHB/APB/AXI, bus matrix and interface protocols - USB, I2C/I3C, SPI, UART; packet-oriented protocols.
 * Good knowledge of embedded memories - SRAM, OTP, MTP and EE/Flash memory
 * Good knowledge of design flow. Hands on in chip architecture definition, Partition, assignment, RTL coding, simulation, synthesis, DFT and timing check
 * Strong Communication and Teamwork Skills
 * Highly Motivated and Creative Individuals preferred
 * Bilingual and Mandarin fluency would be a plus
 * DDR DRAM and Flash memory knowledge would be a plus
 * Mixed signal knowledge and chip experience is highly preferred.

## Description

This is a Senior Manager position for a qualified individual to work in Renesas' Analog and Connectivity Business Group. The primary role is to manage a digital design team and lead the team to develop IC products. The candidate will work together with the team in the other sites of United State and the team in China and contribute to all aspects of development from product conception to production release. The Candidate should have experience in leading design team in VLSI IC development, with a proven track record of delivering high-quality silicon on time and within cost targets. The candidate will also be responsible for design documentation, silicon evaluation, circuit debugging, production test development support, and customer and applications support. He/she will also be involved in the specification of technology requirements for future products.


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