Principal Validation Engineer

Renesas is looking for a Principal SoC Validation Engineer, to redefine how SoCs are built and validated—driving first‑time‑right silicon, eliminating customer escapes, and setting a new industry benchmark for validation excellence 

Key Responsibilities 

• Define and own the end‑to‑end silicon validation strategy for automotive and Embedded SoCs, from pre‑silicon enablement through post‑silicon production release. 
• Ensure first‑time‑right silicon, robust validation coverage, and zero customer escapes across all assigned programs. 
• Lead global validation teams responsible for silicon bring‑up, characterization, and system‑level validation across multiple concurrent programs. 
• Establish and drive a System Use Case Validation Program, harvesting real customer/OEM and system scenarios and converting them into automated, traceable validation suites. 
• Influence SoC architecture, design, and program decisions through early validation insights, risk identification, and data‑backed recommendations. 
• Drive shift‑left validation as a measurable engineering program, increasing reuse across simulation, emulation/FPGA, and silicon to reduce late surprises. 
• Own escape‑prevention strategy, including robustness testing, fault scenarios, coverage models, and disciplined validation signoff criteria. 
• Build and scale high‑performing validation organizations, developing strong technical leadership (Staff/Principal pipeline) and execution ownership. 
• Lead automation, standardization, and infrastructure modernization across validation labs, board farms, and CI systems. 
• Establish validation methodologies, quality benchmarks, metrics, and dashboards aligned with Renesas standards and automotive expectations. 
• Identify technical, execution, and program risks early; drive data‑driven mitigation and executive decision‑making. 
• Provide clear executive‑level reporting on validation status, risks, readiness, and outcomes. 
• Act as a trusted partner to Design, DV, Test, Firmware, Software, Product Engineering, Quality, and BU leadership. 
• Adoption of industry best practices as a measurable program

Function: Manufacturing
Experience Level: Mid-Senior Level