Principal Technical Leader for Automotive Systems Power - Plano, United States
Originally posted 9 July 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role serves as a global technical authority directing design execution and engineering capability across complex integrated circuit development. The scope spans the full lifecycle from specification and customer engagement through design, verification, silicon validation, and production readiness.
What you'll do
- Set engineering direction and drive 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, ensuring alignment between simulation results, silicon behavior, and system-level performance. - Coordinate cross-functional global teams spanning design, verification, test, validation, quality, reliability, and applications engineering. - 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. - Expertise across the full product lifecycle, including system architecture, design, verification, validation, DFT, test, and production readiness. - Track record of technical leadership and influencing cross-functional global teams under demanding schedules.
Nice to have
- Advanced qualifications beyond a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, or a related field.
Skills: analog IC design, mixed-signal IC design, silicon validation, power management, automotive systems
This role has been open 103 days — well above the 62-day median for Automotive/Functional Safety Engineering roles.
Automotive/Functional Safety Engineering · Automotive Safety
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Open roles in category
126
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Median days open
62 d
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Median salary
$233k
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| Metric | Renesas Electronics | All employers we track in this specialty (126 roles · 27 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 8 | 126 |
| Median days open | 56 d | 62 d (−6 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $233k |
Skills observed across this category: analog IC design, mixed-signal IC design, silicon validation, power management, automotive systems
Who's hiring in this category
- NXP Semiconductors · 31 open roles · median 33 d
- NVIDIA · 17 open roles · median 57 d
- Infineon Technologies · 13 open roles · median 47 d
- Arm Holdings · 10 open roles · median 89 d
- Qualcomm · 9 open roles · median 195 d
- Renesas Electronics (this employer) · 8 open roles · median 56 d
How we counted: 126 open Automotive/Functional Safety Engineering (Automotive Safety) roles from 27 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 21 Oct 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.