Principal Technical Leader for Automotive Systems Power
Originally posted 9 July 2026 by the employer.
About the role
The Principal Technical Leader serves as a global technical authority driving design excellence, execution, and engineering capability across complex integrated circuit development. The role spans the full product 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.
- Translate requirements into architectures optimized for performance, power, area, reliability, and manufacturability.
- Drive verification, test, and validation strategies to ensure alignment between simulation results, silicon behavior, and system-level performance.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams across design, verification, test, validation, quality, reliability, and applications engineering worldwide.
- Advance methodologies, automation, and AI adoption to improve 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.
- Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional global teams and deliver technical results under demanding schedules.
Skills: automotive, systems power, silicon validation, architecture, product lifecycle
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This role has been open 119 days — well above the 68-day median for Automotive/Functional Safety Engineering roles.
Automotive/Functional Safety Engineering · Automotive Safety
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Open roles in category
120
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Median days open
68 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$246k
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| Metric | Renesas Electronics | All employers we track in this specialty (120 roles · 28 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 9 | 120 |
| Median days open | 64 d | 68 d (−4 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $246k |
Skills observed across this category: automotive, systems power, silicon validation, architecture, product lifecycle
Who's hiring in this category
- NXP Semiconductors · 27 open roles · median 44 d
- NVIDIA · 19 open roles · median 73 d
- Infineon Technologies · 12 open roles · median 62 d
- Qualcomm · 9 open roles · median 211 d
- Renesas Electronics (this employer) · 9 open roles · median 65 d
- Arm Holdings · 5 open roles · median 9 d
How we counted: 120 open Automotive/Functional Safety Engineering (Automotive Safety) roles from 28 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 6 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.