Job Description

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.

We are looking for a Micro Controller Design Leader to drive a team towards end-to-end development of microcontrollers. This role combines technical leadership, team management, and cross-functional collaboration.
Key Responsibilities:

• Lead controller integration and build a team for product execution.
• Drive architecture, micro-architecture, and design requirements.
• Collaborate with IP, technology, packaging, and global cross-functional teams.
• Drive RTL design, power-aware architecture (UPF), performance optimization, and synthesis.
• Own and guide synthesis, timing constraint development, and logic equivalence checking.
• Collaborate closely with the physical design team through PnR, timing closure, and signoff (DRC/LVS/IR).
• Ensure CDC, DFT, and low-power design practices are integrated into the flow from early design stages.
• Act as a technical liaison between RTL, physical design, verification, software, and system architecture teams.
• Support silicon validation, system integration, and production testing.
• During execution a close interaction and decision making is required between Technology, packaging, IP, Architecture, Various implementation functions, Test and Product Engineering
• Liaison with the software and product teams to support those aspects.
• Work with Sales/Marketing and customers where applicable.
• Work with Program management office for management attention and clearly articulate dependencies and help needed for timely execution of projects.

Qualifications

• B.Tech/M.Tech with 12+ years in SoC/IP design; 5+ years in leadership roles.
• Expertise in processor-based controller design (ARM, DMA, interfaces like USB/PCIe/SPI).
• Strong knowledge of RTL coding (System Verilog/VHDL), low-power design, CDC/LINT & back-end design.
• Familiarity with DV, DFT, PD, and SW processes; scripting skills.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and global team collaboration skills.
• Ability to balance hands-on development with strategic oversight.
• Problem-solving mindset and attention to detail.
• Ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams.

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 .
We have adopted a hybrid model that gives employees the ability to work remotely two days a week while ensuring that we come together as a team in the office the rest of the time. The designated in-office days are Tuesday through Thursday for innovation, collaboration and continuous learning.

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