Jobs at Ambiq

Lead enterprise AI enablement by identifying high-value AI opportunities, redesigning workflows, building business cases, running pilots, driving adoption, establishing governance and metrics, and building organizational AI literacy to improve engineering productivity and business outcomes.

Architect and implement SoC/MCU RTL (Verilog/SystemVerilog), own complex blocks from spec through tapeout, integrate IP and ARM subsystems, collaborate with verification and physical design, resolve LINT/CDC/RDC issues, support FPGA prototyping and silicon bring-up, and mentor junior engineers.

Lead post-silicon validation strategy for ultra-low-power MCUs/SoCs: develop automation and firmware, run characterization/PVT/shmoo tests, perform complex debug and root-cause analysis, improve lab infrastructure and production test correlation, and mentor validation engineers across cross-functional teams.

Lead development and optimization of ATE test programs and hardware for IC characterization, qualification, and high-volume manufacturing. Drive yield improvement, test cost reduction, root-cause analysis, production support, and cross-functional coordination with OSATs and engineering teams.

Lead post-silicon validation and optimization of BLE and other wireless radio subsystems. Define validation methodologies, build automation and firmware for RF/PHY characterization, design RF lab hardware/infrastructure, execute RF performance and power tests, debug system-level issues, and mentor engineers to improve wireless performance and production correlation.

Lead post-silicon power validation, characterization, and optimization for ultra-low-power mixed-signal SoCs. Develop validation methodologies, automation frameworks, firmware, and hardware for precision power measurement. Analyze power across modes and workloads, collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve silicon issues, and mentor engineers while delivering scalable validation infrastructure and lab automation.

Lead architecture, development, integration, and validation of imaging subsystem firmware and drivers for ARM Cortex-M SoCs. Port, optimize, and debug camera interfaces (MIPI CSI-2), video codecs, and image pipelines across pre-silicon FPGA and post-silicon platforms. Enable sensor bring-up, calibration, and performance tuning; support verification, field engineers, and customers; and optimize for real-time, memory, and power-constrained embedded systems.

Lead development and bring-up of DSP software environment: design/port HAL for DSP peripherals, evaluate/port RTOS/schedulers, implement boot and IPC/RPC protocols, create tests/examples, support pre- and post-silicon verification, performance optimization, and customer support for DSP workloads.

The Sr. Staff Embedded Software Engineer will lead MCU software development, focusing on Secure Boot and hardware integration, while ensuring high security standards in products.

The Principal Edge AI Firmware Engineer will develop and optimize embedded software for AI applications, focusing on performance and energy efficiency. Responsibilities include enhancing AI runtimes, profiling tools, and ensuring customer integration across embedded environments.

Lead development and optimization of ATE test solutions for IC characterization, qualification, and production. Develop test programs and hardware, analyze yield and test data, debug failures, support production ramps, and collaborate with cross-functional teams and external OSAT partners to improve yield, reduce test cost, and ensure product quality.

Develop and support Ambiq's Trusted Execution Environment and related security implementations for embedded systems, ensuring compliance with security standards and seamless integration with customer builds.

Design, implement, and debug Bluetooth radio firmware for the Apollo Blue family. Develop features, optimize performance and power, write tests, support FAEs, triage validation issues, produce technical documentation, and collaborate cross-functionally to integrate wireless components.

Lead the development and testing of Ambiq's Zephyr software, including driver and software testcase development, maintaining compliance, and solving issues in collaboration with global teams.

Maintain and improve production test lines: troubleshoot and transfer tester platforms (D10/DX to S100), manage production tooling vendors, support OSAT yield improvement with foundry PE/TE, analyze RMA and production data, and coordinate shipping targets with planning and quality teams.

The Sr Director of System Architecture leads the development of ultra-low-power, AI-based SoC architectures and coordinates teams to drive specifications, power/performance analysis, and integration into products.

The Principal Engineer - RTL will oversee pre-tape out quality for digital SoC modules, lead architecture and micro-architecture development, and manage RTL development. Responsibilities include IP integration, collaboration with verification teams, and assisting in silicon validation.

The Senior Embedded Software Engineer will develop, integrate, and verify SDKs for SoC platforms, lead HAL and driver development, and validate embedded systems through collaboration across teams.

Design and implement low-power DFT architecture for ultra-low-power SoCs: scan insertion, boundary scan, MBIST and ATPG; generate and optimize structural test vectors; run pre/post-layout simulations; collaborate with designers and test engineers to resolve timing, power, and logical issues and bring up tests on silicon.

Develop, implement, and debug FPGA images for pre-silicon prototyping using Xilinx and Intel toolchains. Collaborate with SoC design, software, verification, and test teams to define timing constraints, support regression test suites, reproduce and triage issues pre- and post-silicon, and perform lab bring-up and instrument-based debugging.