Senior Field Applications Engineer (FAE) - Automotive

About the role

Renesas Electronics is looking for a Senior Field Applications Engineer (FAE) in its automotive business unit. The role supports customers with application engineering for digital products (MCUs and SoCs), analog and power products, and helps define the next generation of automotive products. It is based in Toyosu and focuses on OEM customers.

Key responsibilities

• Drive design-in of the full product portfolio in automotive applications such as IVI, ADAS, xEV and vehicle controls, working 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, and build strong relationships with customer engineering departments.
• Work with global cross-functional teams and partners to expand the business.
• 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 combining 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, set ambitious goals and prioritise technical activities from a commercial viewpoint.

Required skills

• Knowledge of semiconductors including SoC, MCU, analog and power products.
• Experience with OS and frameworks (Linux, QNX, AUTOSAR, RTOS).
• Multithreaded programming and middleware development, IPC and OS fundamentals.
• Automotive functional safety and cybersecurity knowledge.
• 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.