Senior Director, SystemC & Virtual Platform Engineering
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Job Description
Renesas is seeking a Senior Director of SystemC and Virtual Platform Engineering to lead a global organization responsible for advancing Software First and Simulation First product development.
This leader will define and execute the strategy for delivering reusable SystemC IP models, virtual SoC platforms, verification infrastructure, embedded software enablement, and Digital Twin solutions. These capabilities enable software development, hardware/software integration, validation, and product evaluation before silicon is available.
Leadership Profile
• Strategic technical leadership with strong execution discipline.
• Credible judgment across modeling, architecture, verification, software, validation, and infrastructure.
• Ability to influence Product Groups, customers, executives, and external partners.
• Passion for organization development, mentoring, innovation, reuse, and measurable engineering quality.
Key Responsibilities
• Define the company-wide strategy and roadmap for SystemC, TLM-2.0, Virtual Platforms, virtual prototyping, and pre-silicon software development.
• Lead a global organization spanning SystemC methodology, IP and SoC modeling, design verification, Virtual Platform engineering, embedded software, and product validation.
• Productize modeling and simulation technologies into versioned, verified, documented, and supported engineering releases.
• Build a reusable portfolio of SystemC/TLM IP models, virtual peripherals, verification assets, software examples, and development infrastructure.
• Oversee integration of reusable IP models into executable virtual SoC and product platforms supporting boot, firmware, drivers, debug, trace, applications, and system use cases.
• Establish a reuse-first verification strategy spanning SystemC LT/AT models, RTL, IP, subsystem, SoC, and platform validation.
• Partner with Product Groups on use cases, fidelity, acceptance criteria, investment priorities, and delivery plans.
• Drive Digital Twin and cloud-hosted engineering workflows, while managing portfolio, budget, staffing, partners, schedules, risks, and executive reporting.
Requirements
Function: Manufacturing
Experience Level: Executive