Renesas is seeking a visionary and highly influential Sr.Manager / Director of Emerging Applications & Technology Architecture to lead the exploration, definition, and commercialization of next-generation semiconductor-enabled system solutions. In this role, you will guide a team of world-class architects focused on identifying and developing opportunities in emerging applications and disruptive technologies, including AI, robotics, autonomous systems, drones/UAVs, industrial automation, functional safety, edge intelligence, and other high-growth market segments. You will serve as a strategic bridge between customers, ecosystem partners, product groups, and engineering organizations, transforming market opportunities into differentiated system solutions and future product requirements. Success in this role requires a combination of deep technical expertise, business acumen, leadership excellence, and the ability to influence across multiple organizations.  Key Responsibilities Technology & Market Leadership Define and drive Renesas' system architecture strategy for emerging applications and emerging technologies. Identify, evaluate, and prioritize new market opportunities, technology trends, and high-growth application segments. Translate customer challenges, technology disruptions, and market requirements into actionable system architectures and solution roadmaps. Lead competitive benchmarking and technology assessments to identify capability gaps and future investment opportunities. Act as a thought leader internally and externally, representing Renesas at customer meetings, industry forums, ecosystem events, and technical conferences. Architecture & Solution Development Lead the development of system-level architectures and complete semiconductor-enabled solutions leveraging Renesas MCUs, MPUs, SoCs, analog, power, sensing, AI, and connectivity products. Drive hardware/software partitioning, system trade-off analysis, and technology selection to optimize performance, cost, scalability, security, and power efficiency. Oversee the development of system specifications, solution requirement documents, reference designs, proof-of-concepts, and demonstrations. Establish architecture methodologies, design standards, and best practices across multiple application domains. Ensure solutions address key requirements for reliability, safety, cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, and manufacturability. Product & Business Influence Partner closely with Product Groups to influence product roadmaps and future semiconductor requirements based on application and system-level insights. Support product definition activities by providing customer, system, and market requirements for next-generation products. Drive adoption of Renesas solutions through direct customer engagement, design-in support, and strategic co-development initiatives. Collaborate with solution marketing teams to define value propositions, messaging, and go-to-market strategies. Team Leadership & Ecosystem Development Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of application and system architects. Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous learning. Establish strong partnerships with strategic customers, technology partners, startups, universities, and research institutions to accelerate innovation. Promote knowledge sharing and architecture re-use across business units and regions. Lead cross-functional initiatives involving engineering, marketing, product management, sales, and ecosystem partners. 
