Senior Field Applications Engineer - Automotive Tier 1 & OEM

About the role

Renesas Electronics is looking for a Senior Field Applications Engineer (FAE) in its Toyosu office to support its digital products (MCUs and SoCs), analog and power products. The role drives design-in of automotive products for OEMs and helps define the next generation of automotive products, working with customer engineering teams and with application engineering and marketing teams.

Key responsibilities

• Drive design-in of the full automotive product portfolio (IVI, ADAS, xEV, vehicle controls) with OEM customers.
• Define new products with customers and internal technical marketing and applications teams.
• Act as technical interface and consultant for automotive applications, deriving system requirements and market trends into value propositions.
• Manage projects with Sales and Marketing to meet design-in targets.
• Build relationships with customer engineering departments, especially OEMs, and connect with global cross-functional teams.
• Lead technical discussions with System Architects and Application Engineers to define application roadmaps and technical requirements.
• Develop documentation (fighting guides, application notes, whitepapers) and system demonstrators with software and hardware.
• Perform measurements in the laboratory for customer projects and present technologies in technical seminars.

Required profile

• 5+ years of related FAE experience, including automotive applications and customers.
• Fluent Japanese (customer-facing role); conversation-level English for internal reporting.
• Ability to listen to business partners, build trust, set ambitious goals and prioritize technical activities from a commercial viewpoint.

Required skills

• Knowledge of semiconductors (SoC, MCU, analog and power).
• Experience with OS and frameworks (Linux, QNX, AUTOSAR, RTOS) and multi-threaded programming and middleware development.
• Working knowledge of automotive functional safety and cybersecurity.
• Power and thermal management at system level, vehicle architecture and network design.
• Hands-on system bring-up, testing and debugging, and use of oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.