{"id":2158786,"url":"https://alion.io/job/renesas-electronics-principal-product-engineer-4","title":"Principal Product Engineer","company":{"id":3481,"name":"Renesas Electronics","domain":"renesas.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/renesas-electronics","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SmartRecruiters","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":100,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":32,"computed_at":"2026-10-15T05:46:00Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Palm Bay, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":125000,"max_usd":254000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":1093},"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-03T20:16:06Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-03","last_verified_at":"2026-10-15T16:36:51Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":41,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":41},"description":"Renesas Electronics is a global semiconductor company delivering innovative solutions across embedded processing, analog, power, connectivity, and system-on-chip technologies for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT markets.\nWe are currently looking for a Principal Product Engineer to join our Hi-Reliability team in Palm Bay, Florida. In this role, you'll help bring advanced IC products from development through characterization, qualification, and production, working across engineering teams to solve complex product challenges and support semiconductor technologies designed for demanding space and high-reliability applications.\n As a Principal Product Engineer on our Hi-Reliability team in Palm Bay, Florida, you'll apply your semiconductor expertise to develop and deliver high-reliability ICs for space and harsh environments. Lead projects from development through NPI, characterization, qualification, manufacturing readiness, and production release. Collaborate with cross-disciplinary experts in design, test, reliability, packaging, radiation effects, and manufacturing to solve complex challenges, drive continuous improvement, and ensure the delivery of reliable, manufacturable semiconductor solutions.\nResponsibilities\nLead Product Engineering activities for new ICs from initial silicon through characterization, qualification, production readiness, and release.\nCoordinate product engineering activities across IC design, test, applications, packaging, reliability, radiation effects, assembly, and manufacturing teams.\nPlan and execute IC characterization to evaluate electrical performance and product requirements.\nAnalyze characterization, test, yield, and production data to identify trends, performance margins, risks, and improvement opportunities.\nUse data-driven analysis to support product decisions and investigate performance, yield, quality, reliability, and manufacturability issues.\nPartner with Test Engineering on characterization, production test strategy, ATE activities, correlation, and product readiness.\nSupport investigation and root-cause analysis of complex product and manufacturing issues.\nContribute to product specifications, qualification activities, test requirements, and release criteria.\nIdentify opportunities to improve NPI execution, characterization, data analysis, yield, and product release processes.\nCommunicate technical findings, risks, and recommendations across engineering teams and project stakeholders.\n Required\nBachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering.\n10+ years of experience executing new product development within the semiconductor industry.\nStrong semiconductor/IC experience.\nExperience with Product Engineering and semiconductor new product introduction (NPI).\nExperience with IC characterization and evaluation of product performance.\nStrong data analysis capability, including interpretation of characterization, test, yield, production, or other semiconductor product data.\nStrong problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.\nPreferred\nRadiation-hardened IC or radiation-effects experience.\nSpace, high-reliability, or harsh-environment semiconductor experience.\nFamiliarity with MIL-PRF-38535 or related high-reliability semiconductor standards.\nExperience with semiconductor Automated Test Equipment (ATE).\nExperience with ATE platforms such as Advantest V93K, Teradyne UltraFLEX/microFLEX, ETS-64, or similar systems.\nExperience with bench testing, IC debug, silicon bring-up, or electrical validation.\nExperience with bench-to-ATE correlation or production test correlation.\nExperience using JMP, Spotfire, Python, or similar statistical/data-analysis tools.\nExperience with analog, mixed-signal, power management, or other complex IC technologies.\nPrevious technical leadership, mentoring, or cross-functional technical ownership experience.\nMaster's degree in Electrical Engineering.\n Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose, To Make Our Lives Easier. With a global team of over 21,000 engineers and problem solvers in more than 30 countries, we offer the opportunity to work on world-leading technology for Automotive, Industrial, Infrastructure, and IoT, shaping a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter future.\nAt Renesas, TAGIE is our culture, grounded in being Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial. It shapes how we work, grow and deliver on our purpose together. This collaborative spirit and mindset drive our semiconductor technology to transform industries and impact millions of lives.\nWe believe in rewarding our employees with a competitive benefits package alongside their salary. More information will be provided during the hiring process.\nAre you ready to join our team and shape the future with us?\nRenesas 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.\nRenesas Electronics deals with dual-use technology that is subject to U.S. export controls regulations. Under these regulations it may be necessary for Renesas to obtain U.S. government export license prior to release of technology to certain persons. 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