Staff Software Engineer

Why This Role Matters Renesas AMS is in the middle of a strategic push to become the sensor and signal-chain vendor of choice inside the fastest-growing platforms in robotics, AI infrastructure, and automotive. That strategy lives or dies on whether we can walk into a customer's lab, integrate our silicon onto their compute platform, and prove it works, fast, credibly, and in code the customer's own engineers trust. This role is the technical engine behind that proof. You will be the person who takes an inductive position sensor, an impedance-sensing IC, or a configurable mixed-signal device and makes it run on a customer's MCU or SoC, whatever that platform happens to be. This work feeds directly into design win conversations with strategic accounts across robotics, AI infrastructure, and automotive. What You'll Actually Do Own hardware/software bring-up of AMS and sensor ICs on customer-selected compute platforms, with no assumption of a friendly Renesas reference design. Write driver-level firmware in C/C++ (I2C, SPI, UART, GPIO, interrupt handling, register-level configuration) directly from datasheets and schematics, often for silicon and platforms outside Renesas's own ecosystem. Build application-layer demonstration code proving out specific end-use cases: optical encoder replacement via inductive position sensing, through-barrier impedance sensing, power sequencing, force/torque sensing for robotic end effectors. Lead technical integration for flagship joint development programs (e.g., dexterous robotic hands, industrial robotic arms) alongside strategic partners, working against hard trade-show and customer deadlines. Debug full signal-chain issues spanning analog front end, digital bus, and host software stack, often live, in a customer's lab. Partner directly with FAEs, product marketing, business development, and customer engineering counterparts to scope PoC requirements, define technical success criteria, and hit milestones that feed directly into acco