Renesas Electronics: Principal Power Architect (Product Definition) — San Jose, CA, United States

About Renesas Electronics

Renesas Electronics develops semiconductors for automotive, industrial, infrastructure and connected-device applications. Its employer description identifies microcontrollers, system-on-chip devices, analogue components and power products within its portfolio. These components form part of electronic systems made by other manufacturers. Renesas also describes combining complementary products into solutions for customers, connecting individual chips with the needs of an end application. Its business therefore involves both semiconductor technology and how that technology is used in wider electronic products.

The position and its setting

Renesas Electronics lists Principal Power Architect (Product Definition) in San Jose, CA, United States, under reference 20029743_2026-06-10. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Employment type: Full-time
• Employer listing date: 22 October 2026
• Brands: Renesas Electronics

Responsibilities and work described

• In this role, you will be responsible for driving innovation delivering best in class solutions addressing power efficiency and density challenges for datacenter products serving the most critical AI customers
• Work: directly with customers defining roadmaps aligned with their platform guided by compelling system level outcomes ensuring Renesas remains dominant in this space
• Engage cross functionally with a diverse team including marketing, design, packaging, and applications engineering teams to turn good ideas into reality
• Interface with customer systems engineers to understand big-scope perspective on challenges and value drivers
• Analysis: various VR approaches to determine how they fit in the big picture from a customers point of view
• Building: critical collateral to evangelize proposals and support customer engagement
• Preparation: executive summary level material to drive high level discussions with Sr Leaders and key customers
• Directly support top-tier customer engagements to gain consensus on proposals and help drive them to revenue
• Maintenance: key customer relationships to enable early market visibility
• Work: with Renesas functional teams to find best path to customer delight
• Support: design, FW, and SW teams during execution with clarification or necessary compromise

Essential requirements and candidate background

• 10+ years of multi-disciplinary experience in semiconductor industry
• Understanding: general power architecture and product types related to CPU’s and other high current ASIC’s
• Experience: multiphase voltage regulators (VR’s) or other datacenter related power products
• Comprehension of topics including magnetics design, passive component selection, power device driver challenges, and real-world implementation challenges
• Experience defining power products for data centers or customer applications
• Experience: embedded SoC’s including cross-functional collaboration with HW/FW/SW teams
• Technical and executive communication skills
• Education
• Bachelor's degree required

Education and qualification routes

• Degree / qualification: Master's degree or higher in power engineering preferred

Preferred experience and additional strengths

• Experience: high level modeling tools like SIMPLIS is a plus

Location, schedule and contract conditions

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• Work arrangement: Hybrid
• Advertised location: San Jose, CA, United States

Pay and application dates

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How to apply to Renesas Electronics

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Practical preparation: AI

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Relevant skills

• AI/ML
• AI
• marketing
• embedded systems
• communication