# Staff Engineer, Software – Physical AI at Renesas Electronics

- Company: Renesas Electronics
- What the company does: 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,...
- Company website: https://www.renesas.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Farmington Hills, MI
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-07
- Apply by: 2026-11-21
- Apply: https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/RenesasElectronics/744000154109250?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/renesas-electronics-staff-engineer-software-physical-ai/

## About the role

This role will provide technical leadership for humanoid robots, autonomous systems, embodied AI, and advanced robotic platforms by combining expertise in embedded systems, heterogeneous computing, AI acceleration, robotics software, and the mathematical foundations of Physical AI. The successful candidate will work directly with customers, ecosystem partners, and internal engineering teams to develop reference platforms, optimize AI workloads, and shape future R-Car products. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, Applied Mathematics, or related field
- 5+ years of experience in embedded systems, semiconductor application engineering, robotics, AI, autonomous systems, or high-performance compute platforms
- Strong C/C++ software development and debugging experience
- Deep understanding of SoC architecture, memory subsystems, firmware, operating systems, device drivers, middleware, and hardware accelerators
- Extensive experience with Embedded Linux, Ubuntu, BSPs, bootloaders, Linux kernel, and system-level debugging
- Strong understanding of heterogeneous compute architectures, DMA, shared memory, IPC, memory hierarchy, cache behavior, and accelerator architectures


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