Sr. Software Engineer

Renesas is one of the top global semiconductor companies in the world. We strive to develop a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter world, and our goal is to make every endpoint intelligent by offering product solutions in the automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT markets. Our robust product portfolio includes world leading MCUs, SoCs, Analog and power products, plus Winning Combination solutions that curate these complementary products. We are a key supplier to the world’s leading manufacturers of electronics you rely on every day; you may not see our products, but they are all around you.

Renesas employs roughly 21,000 people in more than 30 countries worldwide. As a global team, our employees actively embody the Renesas Culture, our guiding principles based on five key elements: Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial. Renesas believes in, and has a commitment to, diversity and inclusion, with initiatives and a leadership team dedicated to its resources and values. At Renesas, we want to build a sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. Join us and build your future by being part of what’s next in electronics and the world.

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced software engineer to join our team. You will develop highly optimized Android BSP implementation for automotive IVI, cockpit, and digital cluster applications on the Renesas R-Car SoC devices, exploiting GPU, a DSP, display technologies, and virtualized or para-virtualized environments. You will further grow the scope to support the integration of Android BSP and upper SW layers into Renesas R-Car SDK to achieve the monthly releases to customers.

Essential Functions:

• Develop Android BSP drivers for R-Car SoC, following the requirements in Product Requirement Specification and Marketing requirements.
• Perform Android base environment upgrade to latest Android releases annually. (A16/A17,,,)
• Experience with Google GKI, AOSP and modular kernel architecture.
• Collaborate with hardware and upper software teams to validate and optimize the performance of SoC products, focusing on computational efficiency, operational effectiveness, and power optimization.
• Provide technical support to our customers to accelerate development of customer solutions and to create easy to use collateral such as application notes and reference solutions.
• Embedded Platforms experience including low-level drivers and firmware, kernel and user-space components on Automotive Grade Linux and Yocto build system for developing and maintaining the software stack for IVI and ADAS systems.
• Hands on experience in Hypervisors and Virtualization technologies across CPU and MM hardware accelerators.
• Experience in KPIs/performance benchmarking, RT system tuning.

Qualifications

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer engineering
• 5+ years industry experience in Embedded Android system software development using C/C++/Python including low level firmware, kernel, and user space components on an SoC product comparable to the Renesas R-Car family.
• Strong knowledge of display and graphics IPs such as: GPUs, compositors, display pipelines, and other related hardware IPs and software frameworks.
• Strong knowledge on SoC hardware blocks - Clocks, PLLs, GPIO, Interrupt Controllers (GIC), Peripherals (SPI/I2C/PCIE/CAN/Ethernet/USB/UFS), power management.
• Strong knowledge of audio IPs such as: audio DSPs, audio connections, and related SW frameworks
• Strong hands-on knowledge of automotive technologies related to cockpit, cluster, and infotainment systems including graphics, audio, display and camera technologies
• Strong knowledge of Linux and Android required with knowledge of at least one other automotive operation systems expected (QNX, AUTOSAR, etc)
• Ability to investigate and apply new technologies to enhance the developer experience
• Strong understanding of Software Architecture and Design principles, Test-Driven Development and unit testing
• Must have highly developed written and verbal cross-functional communication skills

Additional Information

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in security features (TrustZone / TEE) / and OTA updates and partitioning (A/B updates)
• ADAS – camera pipeline and AI. Fusion use cases – combination of ADAS and IVI.
• Ability to develop and debug on both real hardware as well …