Renesas is seeking a System Architect and Product Definer for automotive Battery Management ICs, with a strong focus on functional safety–compliant system design.
In this role, you will translate customer and market requirements into robust, safe, and cost‑effective IC solutions, working closely with global cross‑functional teams across system, safety, hardware, software, and product management.
Key Responsibilities
- Define system requirements and run use‑case analysis for automotive Battery Management ICs
- Define product concepts, applications, and system solutions aligned with customer and market needs
- Perform solution and cost trade‑off analyses to support competitive and scalable product positioning
- Create, structure, and maintain system and product requirements using Polarion
- Develop system and IC architectures, including functional partitioning and interface definition
- Define and document functional behavior, operating modes, and safety‑related functions
- Perform SPICE and MATLAB simulations to analyze circuit behavior, performance, and robustness
- Develop reference schematics and layouts based on automotive requirements
- Support functional safety activities across the product lifecycle, including:
- Contribution to safety analyses (HARA, FMEA, FMEDA, DFA)
- Support definition of safety concepts and safety mechanisms
- Use Medini Analyze to support safety modeling, traceability, and analysis
- Support architectural decisions considering functional safety, reliability, cost, and manufacturability
- Collaborate with global teams across design, verification, safety, applications, and marketing
- Contribute to compliance with automotive quality, safety, and development standards