Senior/Staff/Senior Staff/Principal - Performance Modelling Engineer

  • Full-time
  • Employment Type: Regular (PERM)
  • Remote Work Available: No

Company Description

Renesas is one of the top global semiconductor companies in the world. We strive to develop a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter world, and our goal is to make every endpoint intelligent by offering product solutions in the automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT markets. Our robust product portfolio includes world leading MCUs, SoCs, Analog and power products, plus Winning Combination solutions that curate these complementary products. We are a key supplier to the world’s leading manufacturers of electronics you rely on every day; you may not see our products, but they are all around you.

Renesas employs roughly 21,000 people in more than 30 countries worldwide. As a global team, our employees actively embody the Renesas Culture, our guiding principles based on five key elements: Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial. Renesas believes in, and has a commitment to, diversity and inclusion, with initiatives and a leadership team dedicated to its resources and values. At Renesas, we want to build a sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. Join us and build your future by being part of what’s next in electronics and the world.

Job Description

Projects span a variety of business lines, and designs will need to meet a wide range of power / performance / area goals, depending on the product. Engagement and collaboration across global sites is a key aspect of this role as alignment of methods is essential and sharing of resources is common. Solid technical, communication, and consensus building skills and ability to influence solutions across a global organization will be required.   

  • Contribute to the Verification R&D team that is driving technical execution and best in class methodologies used in the design of advanced microcontrollers and microprocessors.   
  • Work closely with system architects and support define high level specifications that are implementable and robust.  
  • Interface with verification/validation teams to ensure design quality and robustness.  
  • Practice strong collaboration with other R&D teams such as Verification, digital IP, Design Enablement, Emulation, and Validation to achieve project milestones  
  • Promote continuous improvement to design techniques to ensure ‘Zero Defect’ chips  
  • Collaborate with SME’s and key leaders in architecture, systems, emulation, SoC design, software, physical design,  and IP teams developing key technical networks to influence overall design improvements and verification methodologies  
  • Contribute driving best-in-class verification methodologies collaborating with global internal and external SME’s and developing adoption and compliance processes. Including, driving key innovation strategies which significantly impact efficiency and quality for overall R&D and ROI  
  • Participate in customer engagements assessing quality and risks  

Qualifications

  • Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, with 5 to 15 years of experience on IP/Sub-System Verification.   
  • Experience in testbench design and development using UVM methodology for IP/Subsystem and SOC.  
  • Experience in Microcontroller and Microprocessor architecture, Interconnect, Cache Coherency.  
  • Experience in protocols like AHB/AXI/CHI, Memory (ROM, RAM, Flash, LPDDR/DDR3/4) and memory controllers.  
  • Good knowledge of Verilog, System Verilog, C/C++, Shell.  
  • Good knowledge in scripting like Perl, TCL or Python is a plus  
  • Proficiency in Metric Driven Verification concepts, functional and code coverage.  
  • Expertise in directed and constrained random methodologies.  
  • Good knowledge of formal verification methodologies and assertions.  
  • Experience with debugging of designs pre- and post-silicon, in simulation and on the bench.  
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skill.   
  • Experience with System Verilog and front-end tooling (simulation, waveform viewers, lint, CDC, RDC, etc.) is required, as well as highly efficient FE methodologies.  
  • Experience working with complex, multi-core SoC’s with extensive interconnects and a large range of peripherals is preferred.   
  • Domain knowledge of clocking, system modes, power management, debug, security and other architectures is preferred.  
  • Any of following experience would be a plus: High Speed Peripherals like DDR, PCIe, Ethernet, GPU, VPU (Video Processing Unit); NIC/FlexNOC interconnect; Flash memory subsystems.  

 

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 & 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.  

 

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to supporting diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.

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