Automotive Acoustic Sensing Systems Engineer

Company Description

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

Join us at the new Renesas AIoT (Artificial Intelligence of Things) Center of Excellence! Our Reality AI Tools help customers make every product they build more intelligent. We aim to make machine learning model creation, sensor and processor selection, and embedded product creation all effortless for customers. The core technology blends signal processing, automatic feature selection, and AI model generation to operate efficiently on low-cost MCUs. We are growing fast and need skilled and experienced team members to help build and lead the center. This specific role focuses on acoustic sensing in automotive environments.

Responsibilities:

• Detection, identification, and tracking of sound targets in the acoustic environment around automobiles
• Developing new ideas and algorithms to improve performance and fuse data with other automotive systems
• Designing acoustic signal-processing-based pre-processing stages and feature spaces.
• Incorporating new ideas from the research community.
• Technical problem-solving for field data collection and demonstration in live automotive settings
• Collaborating with a cross-disciplinary team of AIoT center engineers, as well as Renesas automotive solutions engineers around the world.
• Helping build, guide, and mentor a growing technical team. Broad experience with sensors, signals, and their application in a variety of settings

Qualifications

• Education: Master’s Degree or Ph.D. in the applicable field. 
• 3-6 years of work experience in related areas, including some project team lead roles.
• Experience developing and applying audio signal processing chain algorithms.
• Familiarity with automotive signal busses, systems, and instrumentation, particularly ADAS-related.
• Working knowledge of a variety of Machine Learning/AI Classification and regression methods, unsupervised learning, and anomaly detection -- not just deep learning.
• Some experience in applying machine learning to signals in domains like audio, vibration, electrical, etc. (Our team focuses on signals, not images or videos.)
• Strong MATLAB programming skills, competent in C/C++ and/or Python.
• A positive, collaborative attitude.

Additional Information

Renesas Electronics Corporation empowers a safer, smarter and more sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. The leading global provider of microcontrollers, Renesas combines our expertise in embedded processing, analog, power and connectivity to deliver complete semiconductor solutions. These Winning Combinations accelerate time to market for automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT applications, enabling billions of connected, intelligent devices that enhance the way people work and live. Learn more at renesas.com.

Renesas’ mission, To Make Our Lives Easier, is underpinned by our company culture, TAGIE. TAGIE stands for Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative and Entrepreneurial. Our goal is to embed this unique culture in everything we do to succeed as a company and create trust with our diverse colleagues, customers and stakeholders.

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to celebrating diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.