Sr Staff Engineer, Product/Program Management

Sr Staff Engineer, Product/Program Management

Company Description

Renesas is a global semiconductor leader shaping the backbone of next‑generation automotive, industrial, cloud, and IoT innovation. With over $9.3 billion in annual revenue (2024) and a world‑class team of 22,700+ employees, Renesas operates at scale while retaining the agility to drive category‑defining breakthroughs. The company’s footprint spans more than 30 countries, enabling deep customer proximity and a uniquely global innovative engine. As Japan’s semiconductor powerhouse and a top global player in microcontrollers, analog, and power technologies, Renesas delivers real‑world impact across EVs, smart factories, renewable energy infrastructure, and edge intelligence. For ambitious problem‑solvers who want to work on meaningful, systems‑level challenges with huge industry leverage, Renesas offers the scale, stability, and strategic clarity of a market leader—paired with the transformative momentum of a company reinventing how the world computes, connects, and electrifies.

Renesas has a growing presence in India with HC approaching 1000+ and significant presence with active government and university collaboration as well as OSAT footprint (JV with CG India). With the growing importance of India as a market (Growing semiconductor market and government goals / mandates of localization needs) and talent hub, our division’s (India for India) mission is to grow India market. We aspire to create products (SoCs, Software, Power and Analog chips etc) which serve needs for local market. Renesas is a leading electronics supplier globally, and this is a unique opportunity to directly influence the future products which will be offered to our customers in a new, fast growing and large Indian market with specific needs and applications.

Job Description

• Responsible for managing the development of New Products (Industrial and Automotive) and delivering on all program commitments from inception through execution to tape out and start of production. 
• Develop and maintain project schedules, budgets, and resource allocations to ensure on-time project completion within budget constraints while maintaining high quality 
• Drive cross-functional teams including design, test, product engineering, validation, marketing, systems, applications, operations, planning, various factories, and vendors as Program Manager to meet project milestones and objectives. 
• Manage several key projects in parallel or singular large program 
• Continuously reviews program progress, proactively identify risks and collaboratively develops and drives risk mitigation efforts 
• Collaborate with cross-functional and peers from other business groups to drive collaboration and harvest best practices and lessons learned to keep the business group in sync with One Renesas methodologies, tools and systems 
• Drive execution initiatives and process improvements at the functional, cross functional and business group level 
• Monitor and report on project progress, including key performance indicators and metrics, to senior management and stakeholders. 
  

Responsibilities may include: 

• Collaborate and work in a team environment with Design, Applications, Test, Marketing, Manufacturing, Quality and Reliability in all aspects of new product development, production release to accomplish goals and objectives 
• Design bench evaluation PCBs (printed circuit boards) and generating characterizations programs for bench evaluations 
• Perform evaluation, debug and characterization of integrated circuits to ensure they meet the product requirement specifications and manufacturing requirements 
• Work with failure analysis (FA) to determine root cause of any reliability and qualification failures 
• Knowledge of statistics and tools (example: Spotfire) to analyze large amounts of characterization data and determine and set production test limits and predict yield data 
• Work with process and package technology development to develop and qualify technologies for new product development 
• Work closely with the global manufacturing facilities to address customer specific product quality, yield management and cost reductions issues on mature products. Scope of work could include product spins and derivatives 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering 

• 7+ years of hand`s on technical program/project management experience leading cross functional teams to develop broad market or custom Power/Analog/ Mixed-Signal products for commercial, industrial or automotive applications with at least 10  years of experience working in the Semiconductor domain 

• Solid understanding of Semiconductor Manufacturing, Development and Management 

• Ability to work in a team setup comprising of other functional groups 

• Strong time management skills that enable on-time project delivery 

• Demonstrated ability to build strong, influential relationships 

• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment 

• Ability to take the initiative and drive for results 

• Strong problem solving, verbal and written communications skills 

• Ability to multiplex between projects and be able to maintain project schedules 

• Familiarity with JEDEC / AEC Qualification standards 

• Familiarity with ATE tester platforms (Teradyne / Eagle) 

• Knowledge of statistics and tools (example: Spotfire) to analyse large amounts of characterization data and determine and set production test limits and predict yield data 

• Knowledge of back-end semiconductor processes like Wafer Fabrication, Bump, Packaging, Assembly and Test is an asset. 

• Working experience in a high-pressure environment, competing priorities and tight turnaround times. 

• Strong communication, presentation, and leadership skills; Ability to lead technical discussions and summarize outcome for executive level status reporting. 

• Proficient with industry standard project management tools such as MS Project, Jira, SharePoint, DFMEA, Root Cause Analysis , Confluence, Microsoft OneNote 

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.

Experience Level

Senior Level