{"id":2143148,"url":"https://alion.io/job/renesas-electronics-senior-staff-digital-systems-emulation-engineer","title":"Senior Staff Digital Systems & Emulation 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":76,"open_postings":101,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.97,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":33,"computed_at":"2026-10-19T05:45:15Z"}},"role":"Hardware","role_family":"Hardware","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Austin, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":149000,"max_usd":270000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":492},"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Quantization","optional":false},{"name":"SystemVerilog","optional":false},{"name":"Verilog","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-05T17:57:08Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-05","last_verified_at":"2026-10-19T18:38:37Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":14,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":14},"description":"Renesas is seeking an experienced Senior Staff Digital Systems & Emulation Engineer to develop and drive advanced pre-silicon emulation and digital system validation for next-generation power management products targeting AI, datacenter, and high-performance computing applications.\nThis role will focus on bridging system architecture, digital design, FPGA/emulation, control algorithms, and hardware validation, enabling complex digital power-management functions to be exercised and validated ahead of silicon availability.\nThe successful candidate will combine strong digital design fundamentals with hands-on FPGA and emulation expertise and a working knowledge of digital signal processing and control techniques. The engineer will work closely with System Architecture, Digital Design, Firmware, Design Verification, Analog/Mixed-Signal Design, Applications, and Validation teams to translate product requirements and algorithms into executable real-time prototypes.\nThe position is a senior individual-contributor role with significant technical ownership and influence on emulation architecture, methodology, and future development platforms.\nKey Responsibilities\nEmulation & FPGA Development\nArchitect, develop, and maintain FPGA-based emulation platforms for advanced digital power controllers and mixed-signal power-management products.\n\nMap and integrate production or representative RTL into FPGA/emulation environments for pre-silicon feature development and validation.\n\nDevelop reusable FPGA infrastructure, interfaces, test capabilities, and debug methodologies supporting multiple product generations.\n\nDevelop and improve build, configuration, automation, and debug flows to make emulation environments accessible and repeatable across engineering teams.\n\nSupport integration of FPGA/emulated controllers with real power stages, loads, instrumentation, and system-level hardware.\n\nIdentify differences between ASIC and FPGA implementation and develop appropriate strategies to maintain meaningful system-level behavior and correlation.\n\nDigital Systems & RTL\nUnderstand and contribute to digital system architecture, microarchitecture, and RTL implementation where required.\n\nAnalyze timing, latency, clock-domain, interface, datapath, and real-time execution requirements relevant to system behavior.\n\nDevelop or modify synthesizable RTL blocks required for emulation, instrumentation, prototyping, and architectural exploration.\n\nSupport integration and debug of digital interfaces, ADC/DAC data paths, PWM generation, telemetry, protection functions, state machines, and embedded control logic.\n\nWork with Digital Design and Verification teams to correlate behavior between behavioral models, RTL simulation, emulation, and silicon.\n\nDSP & Control Algorithm Implementation\nSupport implementation and evaluation of digital control and signal-processing functions used within power-management systems.\n\nTranslate mathematical or system-level algorithms into practical fixed-point and real-time digital implementations.\n\nEvaluate effects of sampling rate, latency, quantization, numerical precision, filtering, and computational architecture on system performance.\n\nImplement and evaluate digital filters, signal conditioning, control-loop functions, and related DSP algorithms where required.\n\nCollaborate with system architects to rapidly prototype new algorithms before committing them to production RTL.\n\nSystem-Level Validation\nDevelop system-level emulation scenarios representing realistic customer use cases and operating conditions.\n\nDefine measurable pass/fail criteria and validation methodologies for new architectural features.\n\nCorrelate emulation results with simulation, behavioral models, bench measurements, and silicon measurements where available.\n\nSupport pre-silicon validation of control-loop behavior, transient response, telemetry, protection mechanisms, sequencing, communication interfaces, and other system-level functions.\n\nPerform detailed debug across hardware, RTL, firmware, and system boundaries to identify root causes of complex issues.\n\nMethodology & Technical Leadership\nDefine and improve methodologies for FPGA prototyping and emulation of mixed-signal and digitally controlled power systems.\n\nDevelop reusable architectures, automation, scripts, and engineering workflows that reduce setup and debug time.\n\nParticipate in architecture, design, and verification reviews and provide technical guidance on emulation feasibility and implementation trade-offs.\n\nWork independently on complex technical problems and drive issues to resolution across organizational boundaries.\n\nMentor engineers in FPGA, digital design, emulation, and system-debug techniques.\n\nDocument architecture, implementation, test methodology, limitations, and results to enable reuse across programs.\n\n Required\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.\n\n10+ years of relevant industry experience in digital design, FPGA development, emulation, or related semiconductor development.\n\nStrong hands-on experience with FPGA architecture, implementation, integration, and debug.\n\nStrong knowledge of Verilog and/or SystemVerilog RTL design.\n\nGood understanding of digital design fundamentals including clocks, resets, CDC, state machines, datapaths, pipelining, timing, and hardware interfaces.\n\nExperience with FPGA synthesis, implementation, timing analysis, and hardware bring-up.\n\nExperience developing scripting and automation using Python, TCL, shell, or similar languages.\n\nHands-on experience debugging complex interactions between RTL, firmware/software, and hardware.\n\nAbility to interpret system requirements and translate them into practical emulation and validation architectures.\n\nStrong technical documentation and communication skills.\n\nDemonstrated ability to work effectively across geographically distributed and cross-functional engineering teams.\n\nPreferred\nExperience with semiconductor pre-silicon emulation or FPGA prototyping.\n\nExperience with major FPGA platforms and development environments.\n\nKnowledge of digital signal processing, including digital filters, fixed-point arithmetic, sampling, quantization, and signal-processing datapaths.\n\nUnderstanding of digital control systems and feedback-loop concepts.\n\nExperience with digital power management, multiphase voltage regulators, PMICs, or mixed-signal ICs.\n\nFamiliarity with ADC/DAC interfaces, PWM generation, telemetry, high-speed digital interfaces, and real-time control systems.\n\nExperience correlating behavioral models, RTL simulations, FPGA/emulation results, and laboratory measurements.\n\nFamiliarity with Python-based modeling, data analysis, and automated hardware validation.\n\nExperience developing reusable FPGA/emulation platforms supporting multiple products or development teams.\n\nKey Attributes\nThe ideal candidate is a hands-on senior technical contributor who is comfortable moving between system concepts, algorithms, RTL, FPGA implementation, and laboratory hardware. The candidate should be able to take an architectural concept, determine how it can be emulated, implement the required infrastructure, demonstrate it operating in real time, and provide objective data that allows the engineering team to make product decisions.\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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