Senior Reliability Engineering Manager

The Senior Reliability Engineering Manager leads a team of reliability engineers to ensure products meet company and customer reliability requirements. This role is responsible for setting reliability plans, managing qualification activities, and driving timely issue resolution through close collaboration with cross‑functional teams to support overall product quality and business goals.

Additionally, in this role an important objective is to develop a series of best practices in reliability lab operations that will serve as the basis for lab operational practices worldwide.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop the reliability engineering team to achieve defined reliability and quality objectives.
• Define and drive reliability strategy, plans, and metrics across the product lifecycle.
• Own reliability qualification programs, including planning, execution, review, and risk assessment.
• Partner with cross‑functional teams to identify, prioritize, and resolve reliability risks and field issues.
• Ensure reliability requirements, standards, and best practices are consistently applied across projects.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen product robustness, learning, and execution efficiency.

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Electronic Engineering, or a related engineering discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant working experience.
• Solid experience in product or reliability engineering, preferably within semiconductor, electronics, or related manufacturing industries.
• Proven ability to lead and develop engineering teams, with strong people‑management and coaching skills.
• Strong understanding of reliability qualification concepts, stress testing, failure analysis, and risk assessment.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross‑functional teams (Design, Product, Quality, Manufacturing).
• Clear communication skills, with the ability to present reliability status and issues to technical and management audiences.

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’ As the industry’s leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power.

 

With a diverse team of over 21,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable, power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow, ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’     

 

At Renesas, you can: 

• Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.  

• Make a real impact by developing innovative products and solutions to meet our global customers' evolving needs and help make people’s lives easier, safe and secure. 

• Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system, including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups, will help you excel from the first day.    

Are you ready to own your success and make your mark?  

Join Renesas. Let’s Shape the Future together.  

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to supporting 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 law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.

We have adopted a hybrid model that gives employees the ability to work remotely two days a week while ensuring that we come together as a team in the office the rest of the time. The designated in-office days are Tuesday through Thursday for innovation, collaboration and continuous learning.