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 290 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.
- The right candidate will be a self-starter who assumes full ownership of DV tasks and delivers high-quality results.
- Develop test plans at block, sub-system, and chip level.
- Execute SoC-based verification at full-chip and module level verification. Focus on Display subsystem (GPU, Display Controller), Radio Subsystem, SoC integration verification.
- Experience in ARM or RISC-V based micro-controllers.
- Power-aware methodology (CPF/UPF).
- Write C-based lib packages and tests.
- Architect and implement scalable and reusable module test benches using SystemVerilog and UVM.
- Develop comprehensive test cases, stimulus generation, and checkers to achieve high coverage.
- Automate the test environment for randomized testing and score-boarding.
- Utilize advanced debugging techniques to identify and resolve design and verification issues.
- Perform root-cause analysis and work with design teams to fix identified issues.
- Define and track functional and code coverage metrics to ensure thorough verification.
- Ensure that verification quality meets or exceeds industry standards and project requirements.
- Edge-based AI inference is preferred.
- BSEE/MSEE with 10+ years of experience (seniority depends on years of experience) in block, sub-system, and full-chip verification.
- Technologies: Experienced in ARM M/RISC-V (Preferred) SoC Verification, expert in AMBA AXI/AHB/APB, DMA, Flow Control, Serial Devices, Low Power (CPF/UPF) Verification, 3rd party IP integration verification.
- Experience in Display, Audio domains is a plus.
- Languages: Strong in SystemVerilog (UVM), Verilog, C/C++, Python, Perl, or Makefile.
- Should have delivered multiple chips functioning to specification.
- Identify and manage verification deliverables, milestones, and schedules.
- Proactively identify potential verification risks and develop mitigation strategies.
- Collaborate with design, architecture, and software teams to understand and verify design intent.
- Communicate verification progress, issues, and results to stakeholders and management.
- Strong in understanding multiple architectures, integrating 3rd party IPs/VIPs, and working with mixed-signal designs with low-power design and verification challenges.
- Strong understanding/exposure to Design Verification for low-power battery-operated designs is highly desired.
- C-based verification in an SoC environment is required.
- Experience with ARM processor-based designs and low-power design techniques is a plus.
What We Do
Ambiq makes unprecedented energy-efficient SoCs and ultra-low power platform solutions that enable edge AI on billions of battery-powered devices. Our mission is to put intelligence everywhere by delivering the lowest-power semiconductor solutions on the planet. With SPOT® technology and the Apollo SoC family, Ambiq empowers innovators to build smarter, longer-lasting wearables, IoT, smart home, healthcare, and industrial devices. Ambiq has helped leading manufacturers worldwide develop products that last weeks on a single charge (rather than days) while delivering a maximum feature set in compact industrial designs. Ambiq's goal is to take Artificial Intelligence (AI) where it has never gone before in mobile and portable devices, using Ambiq's advanced ultra-low power system on chip (SoC) solutions. Ambiq has shipped more than 200 million units as of March 2023. The next generation of AI will not depend on constant cloud connectivity. It will run directly on ultra-low-power silicon in wearables, sensors, and embedded systems. At Ambiq, we design and ship production silicon that enables: Real-time inference on constrained devices Models optimized to run in tens of KB Extreme power efficiency for battery-operated systems Deep hardware/software co-design This is not research. It’s deployed technology.
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
