Company Overview
Ambiq is on a mission to enable intelligence everywhere — powering the AI edge revolution with the world's lowest-power semiconductor solutions.
Built on our proprietary sub- and near-threshold technology, our chips deliver multi-fold improvements in energy efficiency without costly process scaling. Since 2010, we've shipped over 300 million units to customers building smarter wearables, medical devices, IoT products, and AI-powered edge applications.
Our cross-functional teams span design, research, development, production, marketing, sales, and operations across Austin, Hsinchu, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Singapore. We move fast, tackle hard problems, and create space for people to grow through complex, meaningful work that shapes the future of technology.
We're looking for self-motivated, creative problem-solvers who are eager to push technological limits and make a real impact in energy efficiency.
At Ambiq, we live by five values: Innovate. Collaborate. Focus. Learn. Achieve.
If that's you, join us — the intelligence everywhere revolution starts here.
Scope
As Principal Engineer, Analog Design (Team Lead) at Ambiq, you will contribute to the technical roadmap and architecture for the company's core analog subsystems — including PMUs, clocking, and data converters — while directly leading and developing a team of analog designers.
This role sets technical direction across multiple concurrent programs, partners with Architecture, RTL, and Product teams at the roadmap level, and represents Ambiq's analog design capability to customers and partners. Designs span leading-edge technologies such as 22nm, 12nm, and beyond.
You will balance individual technical contribution with people leadership: driving the highest-risk architectural decisions personally while coaching Staff and Senior engineers through their own design cycles, spec definition, and career growth.
The successful candidate is a proven technical leader who elevates the people around them, sets a high bar for design rigor, and is comfortable being the final escalation point on the toughest analog design and organizational challenges.
This role will be onsite, and the candidate will be expected to have a presence on site 5 days a week.
Responsibilities
- Own multi-generation architecture strategy and chip/block-level spec definition across analog subsystems
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of analog design engineers, including hiring, career development, and performance management
- Set technical standards and design methodology for circuit architecture, verification, and layout supervision across the team
- Make final calls on the highest-risk circuit architecture and verification trade-offs
- Directly conduct or supervise transistor-level analog IC design for the most critical or novel circuit blocks
- Chair design reviews across multiple projects; drive resolution of the most complex action items
- Partner with digital design leadership to align interface specs and verification strategy for analog/digital integration
- Own the analog test and validation strategy for prototype bring-up through high-volume production
- Represent analog engineering in cross-functional roadmap, customer, and executive discussions
- Support Marketing, Product Engineering, and Applications leadership on product definition and customer commitments
- Drive continuous improvement in design flow, tools, and reuse strategy across the analog team
Skills Required
- Proven technical leadership in analog design
- Experience defining architecture and chip or block-level specifications for analog subsystems
- Experience with transistor-level analog IC design
- Experience leading, mentoring, hiring, and developing analog design engineers
- Ability to lead design reviews and resolve complex analog architecture and verification issues
- Ability to work onsite five days per week
Ambiq Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage includes company-paid medical, dental, and vision, with some plans covering 100% of employee-only premiums. Additional provisions include mental health resources, HSA/FSA options, disability coverage, and an EAP.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away is structured with 15 PTO days per year with carryover up to 180 hours, 15 paid holidays plus a floating day, and a year-end shutdown. Parental and family medical leave are also highlighted.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) with a company match of 50% up to 4% of pay, free retirement planning tools, and access to financial advisors. Basic life and AD&D coverage (1x salary up to $100,000) further bolster financial security.
Ambiq Insights
What We Do
Ambiq® enables intelligence (AI and beyond) everywhere by delivering the lowest-power semiconductor solutions for battery-powered edge devices. As a pioneer in ultra-low power SoCs, Ambiq empowers wearables, IoT, smart home, healthcare, and industrial products with always-on, energy-efficient intelligence. Backed by our SPOT® technology and global innovation leadership, Ambiq is shaping the future of edge AI.
Why Work With Us
Direct influence on silicon architecture Smaller, high-impact teams Hardware/software co-design in real time Faster technical decision cycles Visible ownership at Staff & Director level Austin-based collaboration culture
Ambiq Offices
OnSite Workspace
Building silicon and embedded AI systems requires tight collaboration across firmware, hardware, validation, and architecture teams. We believe the hardest engineering problems are solved through direct, daily collaboration.
