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🥝 Principal Engineer, Validation

Renesas Electronics | Hyderabad, India | Posted May 31, 2026

Job Description


Job Description

We are seeking a Principal Engineer, Validation with deep technical expertise and strong system-level thinking to architect, lead, and continuously improve post-silicon system and functional validation for complex SoC/MCU platforms.

This role is mission-critical to ensuring first-time-right silicon, validating functional correctness, feature compliance, performance, power, and robustness across real-world use cases, PVT corners, and customer workloads. The Principal Engineer acts as a technical authority and trusted advisor, driving validation strategy across pre-silicon, emulation, FPGA, and silicon phases while preventing escapes.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own and define automotive system‑level post‑silicon validation strategy aligned to ASIL‑D quality and zero‑escape goals.
  • Drive pre↔post silicon continuity, enabling reuse of validation content across simulation, emulation, FPGA, and silicon.
  • Architect and own end-to-e...
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