Principal Technical Leader for Automotive Systems Power - Munich, Germany
Originally posted 9 July 2026 by the employer — open 63 days.
About the role
This role involves serving as a global technical authority to drive design excellence, technical execution, and engineering capability across complex integrated circuit development, spanning the full lifecycle from specification and customer engagement through design, verification, silicon validation, and production readiness.
What you'll do
- Provide global technical leadership, setting engineering direction and driving complex system and design decisions across multiple programs.
- Lead end-to-end design execution, owning critical blocks from requirements definition through silicon validation and production readiness.
- Balance technical trade-offs by translating requirements into architectures optimized for performance, power, area, reliability, and manufacturability.
- Ensure engineering excellence through technical reviews, design oversight, adherence to best practices, and high-quality documentation.
- Drive verification, test, and validation strategies, ensuring alignment between simulation results, silicon behavior, and system-level performance.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams, aligning design, verification, test, validation, quality, reliability, and applications engineering worldwide.
- Advance methodologies, automation, and AI adoption, improving engineering efficiency, traceability, documentation, and development workflows.
What you'll need
- 12–15+ years of analog and/or mixed-signal IC design experience, including technical leadership of complex semiconductor products and system developments.
- Bachelor’s or higher degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, or a related field.
- Strong expertise across the full product lifecycle, including system architecture, design, verification, validation, DFT, test, and production readiness.
Skills: silicon validation, IC design, system architecture, automotive systems, power
This role has been open 62 days — below the 71-day median for Analog IC Design roles.
Analog IC Design · Power Management
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Open roles in category
88
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Median days open
71 d
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Median salary
$173k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Renesas Electronics | All employers we track in this specialty (88 roles · 15 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in category | 23 | 88 |
| Median days open | 76 d | 71 d (+5 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $173k |
Skills observed across this category: silicon validation, IC design, system architecture, automotive systems, power
Who's hiring in this category
- Renesas Electronics (this employer) · 23 open roles · median 76 d
- onsemi · 17 open roles · median 87 d
- Monolithic Power Systems · 9 open roles · median 174 d
- Infineon Technologies · 7 open roles · median 69 d
- QORVO · 6 open roles · median 25 d
- Analog Devices · 5 open roles · median 119 d
How we counted: 88 open Analog IC Design (Power Management) roles from 15 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 10 Sept 2026. Figures refresh nightly.