Renesas

Renesas runs internships worldwide alongside dedicated graduate (new college graduate) hiring, set out on its interns and graduates page. Internships are open to students pursuing a bachelor's, master's or doctorate, and graduate roles span the company's main functions — Sales, Design, Operations and Corporate Functions. Renesas says it commonly hires former interns into full-time new-graduate roles, and in 2025 it welcomed 228 new graduates and young professionals, gathered at its Musashi site in Japan. Because the internship is an explicit feeder into new-graduate hiring, it is the route worth prioritising: converting one is the most direct path to a graduate offer, so an applicant is better served lining up an internship a year ahead than waiting to apply cold as a graduate.

Renesas is an embedded-semiconductor specialist — it describes itself on its about page as the industry's leading expert in embedded processing, with a portfolio spanning embedded processing, analog and connectivity, and power, aimed at automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT customers; it reported 1,348.5 billion yen in revenue for 2024 with more than 22,000 employees across 30-plus countries. The company was formed in 2010 from the merger of NEC Electronics and Renesas Technology (itself a 2003 Hitachi–Mitsubishi spin-off) and has since broadened through a run of acquisitions — Intersil in 2017, IDT in 2019, Dialog in 2021 and Altium in 2024 — that carried it from microcontrollers into power, connectivity and design software. For an early-career engineer, that history puts Renesas's centre of gravity in embedded and automotive systems rather than analog-first design, so it is worth prioritising for someone aiming at microcontroller, automotive or embedded-software work over discrete analog IC design.

Yes. Renesas has 1 student and graduate role open right now, in graduate jobs.

Renesas opened its graduate jobs on 17 Sept 2026. Dates are when the firm posted each programme, or when we first saw it on the firm's careers site.

Renesas has student and graduate roles open in Edinburgh.

Applications to Renesas go through the firm's own careers site, one application per posting, each expecting a CV and cover letter written for that role.