Staff Engineer - Applications Hardware at Ambiq Micro, Inc – Austin, Texas

Company Overview

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.

Scope

As the Staff Applications Hardware Engineer at Ambiq, you will drive the development of both internal and customer-facing evaluation hardware.

This role will work with our software development team, our design engineering team, and our field engineering team to satisfy internal and customer needs for low-friction solutions to evaluate our SoC performance and power.

The successful candidate should have strong experience with PCB development for battery-operated consumer electronics devices. Experience with wearable devices is a definite plus. The candidate must have experience with developing for and debugging on ARM-based platforms, and should have experience with low-power designs.

The person in this role will be involved in debugging device-level issues on our SoCs, supporting our field engineers for customer issues with their components and boards, and supporting customer-facing documentation such as Application Notes and Hardware Design Guidelines.

Responsibilities

• PCB hardware architecture, design, development, and testing
• Collaborate with internal engineering and validation teams to analyze and debug complex system-level issues and develop solutions
• Bridge the communication between the field and engineering teams for field issues and manage issue status tracking
• Assist with the design, debug, and testing of embedded microcontroller software drivers, algorithms, application code, board support packages, automated scripts, and design test cases to provide the required functionality to end customers
• Develop manufacturing test procedures and hardware for board builds overseas
• Create application notes, knowledge base articles, and hardware design guidelines
• Assist customers with the use of Ambiq SDK and hardware platforms

Scope

As the Staff Applications Hardware Engineer at Ambiq, you will drive the development of both internal and customer facing evaluation hardware

This role will work with our software development team, our design engineering team and our field engineering team to satisfy internal and customer needs for low friction solutions to evaluate SoC performance and power.

The successful candidate should have strong experience with PCB development for battery operated consumer electronics devices. Experience with wearable devices is a definite plus. The candidate must have experience with developing for and debugging on ARM based platforms, and should have experience with low-power designs.

The person in this role will involve debugging device level issues on our SoCs, supporting our field engineers for customer issues with their components and boards, and supporting customer facing documentation such as Application Notes and Hardware Design Guidelines.

Responsibilities

• PCB hardware architecture, design, development, and testing
• Collaborate with internal engineering and validation teams to analyze and debug complex system level issues and develop solutions
• Bridge the communication between field and engineering teams for field issues and manage issue status tracking
• Assist with the design, debug, and testing of embedded microcontroller software drivers, algorithms, application code, board support packages, automated scripts, and design test cases to provide the required functionality to end customers
• Develop manufacturing test procedures and hardware for board builds overseas
• Create application notes, knowledgebase articles, and hardware design guidelines
• Assist customers with the use of Ambiq SDK and hardware platforms