Ambiq's mission is to enable intelligence everywhere by delivering the lowest power semiconductor solutions. Ambiq is a pioneer and a leading provider of ultra-low-power semiconductor solutions based on our proprietary and patented sub- and near-threshold technologies. With the increasing power requirements of artificial intelligence (AI) computing, our customers are relying on our solutions to deliver AI to edge environments. Our hardware and software innovations fundamentally deliver a multi-fold improvement in power consumption over traditional semiconductor designs without expensive process geometry scaling. We began in 2010 by addressing the power consumption challenges of battery-powered devices at the edge, where they were most pronounced. As of the beginning of 2025, we've shipped more than 280+ million units worldwide.
Our innovative and fast-moving teams of design, research, development, production, marketing, sales, and operations are spread across several continents, including the US (Austin), Taiwan (Hsinchu), China (Shanghai and Shenzhen), and Singapore. We value relentless technology innovation, a deep commitment to customer success, collaborative problem-solving, and an enthusiastic pursuit of energy efficiency. We embrace candidates who also share these same values. The successful candidate must be self-motivated, creative, and comfortable learning and driving exciting new technologies. We encourage and nurture an environment that fosters growth and opportunities to work on complex, meaningful, and challenging projects, creating a lasting impact and shaping the future of technology. Join us on our quest for enabling billions of intelligent devices. The intelligence everywhere revolution starts here.
This role will be on-site 5 days a week in NW Austin.
ScopeAs a member of the SWS team at Ambiq, the Staff Engineer, Dev-Ops position will work with the various software teams to deliver the SDK releases that are integral to Ambiq’s success, using, planning, and expanding the current CI/CD processes in place to meet Ambiq’s continued growth and expanding SOC product line.
A successful candidate should be a fast learner, results-driven, and self-motivated team player with an “always learning” mindset. They should have an inquiring spirit and be comfortable in a lab environment and with hands-on debugging of embedded systems.
The candidate will be involved in the extension of each of these to cover new MCU members of the family as they become available
Responsibilities- An integral part of the SDK release cycles (release candidate validation, packaging, build, and test), working with the various software teams to accomplish the release plans with the committed features and quality.
- Build/maintain Jenkins jobs for SDK builds + nightly/periodic regression suites. Administration of Jenkins as new products are developed and added.
- Maintain, improve, and scale the Ambiq proprietary build system that supports the various Ambiq SOC offerings.
- Plan and deploy the automated SDK regression test hardware used in the CI testing.
- Deploy both pre-silicon FPGA-based and post-silicon setups into the CI flows.
- Debug hardware and software issues impacting automation and build systems.
- Use various tools to ensure compliance with different open-source licensing requirements.
- Work with Ambiq’s IT team to maintain and improve the regression lab’s overall performance and reliability.
- Document the automation framework and processes to ensure future maintainability.
- Be a technical expert for the installation and setup of the software tools needed for doing SDK development, maintain the tools repository and documentation.
- Work across teams to support tool setup and resolve issues.
- A Bachelor's of Science or Master's in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science.
- 8+ years in DevOps/SQA/Platform Engineering with the most recent experiance being at a staff-level. Familiarity with site reliability engineering (SRE) is desirable
- Strong experience in deploying and operating Jenkins at scale with external execution hardware. Using both cloud and in-house repositories.
- Experience running CI/build workloads, including multi-compiler builds, security-sensitive code, and optimizing performance.
- Proven ownership of a software release process.
- Strong coding skills both in C and Python is a requirement, with embedded debugging skills is a benefit.
- Strong cross-platform skills, both Linux and Windows.
- Good cross-team collaboration skills are a must; experience managing direct reports or contractors is desired.
**Must be currently authorized to work in the United States for any employer. We do not sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas (now or in the future) for this role.
We're seeking passionate technologists who thrive on pushing boundaries, solving complex challenges, and driving transformative solutions.
At Ambiq, you'll collaborate with a dynamic team that values relentless innovation, customer-centric thinking, and continuous learning. If you're a self-motivated, creative problem-solver eager to push technological limits and make a meaningful impact in energy efficiency, this is your opportunity to grow, excel, and turn groundbreaking ideas into reality.
Most importantly, the successful candidate will be able to live the Ambiq Shared Values:
- Innovate: We tenaciously find ways to break down the barriers to possible solutions
- Collaborate: We proactively communicate and encourage each other to be better.
- Focus: We keep the voice of the customer at the center of everything we do.
- Learn: We strive for continuous improvement and are always curious.
- Achieve: We execute on quality and follow through on our commitments.
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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
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