Jobs at Ambiq

Develop and test the Ambiqsuite SDK for MCU devices and emulation platforms. Extend hardware abstraction layers, board support packages, and device drivers for new platforms. Create SDK examples and test cases, analyze embedded-system issues, perform hands-on debugging, and build Python automation scripts for SDK development, builds, and verification workflows.

Supports low-power DFT implementation and verification for SoC designs, including scan insertion, scan-chain verification, MBIST, rule checking, test-coverage analysis, and debugging. Develops Tcl, Python, and Shell scripts for automation, documents methodologies and results, and collaborates with RTL, DFT, design verification, and physical design engineers.

Explore AI/ML-assisted and self-adaptive memory design techniques for optimizing performance, power efficiency, robustness, and yield. Analyze memory assist methods, operating conditions, failure signatures, and process variations. Develop adaptive monitoring, prediction, voltage, timing, and read/write control techniques, then document, benchmark, and present the proposed architecture and design insights.

Leads physical implementation of analog IC subsystems including PMUs, clocking, and data converters. Responsibilities include floorplanning, transistor-level layout, matching, shielding, parasitic extraction, LVS/DRC closure, tape-out, validation, production test support, and layout review. Collaborates with analog, digital, RTL, physical design, product, and applications engineering teams. This is an onsite role requiring five days per week.

Leads specification, architecture, transistor-level design, verification, layout supervision, validation, and manufacturing test for complex analog IC subsystems. Partners with architecture, RTL, product, applications, and marketing teams; resolves cross-block issues; supports customer and manufacturing challenges; and mentors senior engineers without formal management responsibility.

Leads the analog design organization and sets architecture, specifications, methodology, and technical direction across multiple semiconductor programs. Directly designs or supervises critical transistor-level analog blocks, oversees verification, validation, layout, and production bring-up, and resolves high-risk technical issues. The role also mentors and manages engineers, chairs design reviews, partners with digital and product teams, supports customer and executive discussions, and drives improvements in tools, design flow, and IP reuse.

Develop and support embedded software for Ambiq SoCs, including drivers, HAL updates, board support packages, example applications, Zephyr enablement, debugging tools, and test software. Collaborate with hardware, software, field engineering, and customers to resolve complex system-level issues. Support evaluation platforms, customer applications, and silicon debug while producing application notes, knowledgebase content, and software design guidelines.

Lead verification of digital and mixed-signal SoC designs. Develop block, subsystem, and chip-level test plans; implement scalable UVM/SystemVerilog testbenches; write C-based SoC tests; apply power-aware CPF/UPF flows; automate randomized testing and scoreboards; debug, perform root-cause analysis, track coverage metrics, and collaborate with design and software teams to deliver chips to spec.

Lead architecture, development, integration, and validation of imaging subsystem firmware and drivers for ARM Cortex-M SoCs. Port, optimize, and debug camera interfaces (MIPI CSI-2), video codecs, and image pipelines across pre-silicon FPGA and post-silicon platforms. Enable sensor bring-up, calibration, and performance tuning; support verification, field engineers, and customers; and optimize for real-time, memory, and power-constrained embedded systems.

Design, implement, and debug Bluetooth radio firmware for the Apollo Blue family. Develop features, optimize performance and power, write tests, support FAEs, triage validation issues, produce technical documentation, and collaborate cross-functionally to integrate wireless components.

Lead the development and testing of Ambiq's Zephyr software, including driver and software testcase development, maintaining compliance, and solving issues in collaboration with global teams.

Develop, implement, and debug FPGA images for pre-silicon prototyping using Xilinx and Intel toolchains. Collaborate with SoC design, software, verification, and test teams to define timing constraints, support regression test suites, reproduce and triage issues pre- and post-silicon, and perform lab bring-up and instrument-based debugging.

Design and optimize ultra-low-power embedded SRAM and register file IPs, develop/enhance SRAM compilers, implement memory peripheral circuits, perform timing/power/low-voltage characterization, correlate silicon measurements, drive yield improvements, build automation scripts, and support IP integration through production.

Define and drive SoC architecture for low-power wearable/IoT products. Produce specifications, IP selection, power/performance models, integration specs, and support FPGA bring-up, RTL/gate-level debug, post-silicon validation, and cross-functional alignment with hardware, software, and product teams.

The Senior Embedded Graphics Software Engineer develops and maintains GPU software stacks, collaborates on graphics APIs, and supports pre- and post-silicon testing.