Senior Firmware Engineer, Verification

Job overview

The Senior Firmware Engineer, Verification role is onsite in Austin, TX. Compensation is not specified. The position supports Renesas’s Infrastructure Power team, which develops power-management technology for data center, AI accelerator, networking, and computing platforms. The engineer verifies embedded firmware in pre-silicon simulation environments, finding firmware, RTL, and interface defects before silicon is available. Test development, coverage analysis, automation, and cross-functional debugging help establish confidence in firmware behavior and release readiness.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain SystemVerilog simulation tests and environments for ARM Cortex-M firmware with RTL and hardware models
• verify firmware behavior across boot, configuration, sequencing, telemetry, protection, fault handling, and recovery
• analyze C and assembly firmware and debug failures
• develop directed, constrained-random, negative, stress, boundary, and error-injection tests
• run regressions and analyze waveforms, logs, memory, and registers
• track requirements, functional, and code coverage
• automate test execution and reporting using Python, Perl, or similar tools
• collaborate with firmware, RTL, architecture, and validation teams
• document plans, results, findings, and release readiness.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior firmware engineer

firmware verification

renesas

austin tx

onsite

infrastructure power

pre-silicon verification

systemverilog

arm cortex-m

embedded firmware

python

regression testing

power management ics

firmware debugging

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Renesas states it offers a competitive benefits package
• details are provided during the hiring process.

Why this role

The role focuses on pre-silicon firmware verification. Required qualifications include a relevant bachelor’s or master’s degree, embedded firmware and verification experience, ARM Cortex-M knowledge, scripting proficiency, and familiarity with interfaces such as I2C, PMBus, SPI, or UART.

About the employer

Renesas is hiring for this role. Industry: Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing. Sector: 33.