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.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for scan insertion, boundary scan, MBIST, ATPG for ultra-low power SoC based on subthreshold operation using standard EDA tools.
- Develop and implement low-power DFT architecture and infrastructure.
- Generate structural test vectors, analyse, and improve coverage, test time and test cost.
- Perform pre/post-layout scan and MBIST simulations.
- Work with designers on STA, physical, power and logical issues related to DFT.
- Work with test engineers to bring up test vectors on silicon.
Qualifications
- BS/MS in ECE/EE and at least 10 years of experience in DFT implementation.
- Skilled in different types of DFT structures, including scan (Stuck-At, At-Speed, Path-Delay), scan compression, boundary scan and MBIST.
- Experience in creating and implementing hierarchical DFT architecture in complex SoC.
- Experience in Low-Power DFT and MBIST.
- Experience in test time and test coverage analysis for scan and MBIST patterns.
- Experience in working with test engineering team to bring up production test program.
- Extensive knowledge of timing concepts and constraint development.
- Experience in developing scan ATPG and MBIST test benches and simulation in pre/post-layout environments.
- Experience in RTL is required.
- Experience in scripting like Tcl is preferred.
- Experience with GLS (gate level simulation) is preferred.
- Motivated, self-driven engineer with attention to detail.
- Strong verbal and written English communication skills.
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
