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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.
This role will be on-site 5 days a week in NW Austin.
This role will be on-site 5 days a week in NW Austin.
As the Sr Multimedia System Architect at Ambiq, you will drive the architectural definition of various aspects of Ambiq’s low-power SoCs, with a specific focus on multimedia technologies, including graphics, display, video, imaging, and AI.
This is a critical function at Ambiq that supports the delivery of the world’s lowest-power electronic devices, enabling ubiquitous AI at the edge. This is a cross-functional position working with software and hardware engineering teams, applications engineering, and field teams to ensure alignment to product requirements, logical and physical design constraints, power and performance targets, and overall system architecture. This role will encompass high-level architectural specification, low-level microarchitecture, process-node-dependent analysis, power/performance modeling, and use-case definition.
Specific Responsibilities
Expectations for a successful candidate are as follows:
Requirements
The candidate should be comfortable with independent specification, analysis, and development from high-level concepts through design and validation, as well as collaborative development with software and hardware engineering. A deep knowledge of graphics accelerators, graphics processing, display controllers and panel interfaces, image signal processors, video encoding/decoding, image sensors, or neural network accelerators specifically targeting wearable, IoT and mobile systems are critical, along with specific experience delivering low-power architectures to market. A working knowledge of SoC architecture, fabric/interconnect technologies, power management, and advanced process nodes is preferred. The candidate should be comfortable with complete system dataflows and modeling to guide hardware and software analysis and development.
Specific Experience
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.
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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.
This role will be on-site 5 days a week in NW Austin.
Scope
The Sr Director of System Architecture will be responsible as the lead architect for developing next-generation ultra-low-power, AI-based SoC architectures for future Ambiq products. The candidate will own the development and coordination of new product architectures with the Marketing, Advanced Development, and Engineering teams. This position will report directly to the VP of Architecture. Areas of interest include: low-power embedded microprocessor and microcontroller-based System on Chip (SoC), interconnect technologies, memory technologies and topologies, clocking, power management, as well as preferred familiarity with 2D and 3D graphics accelerators and display controller technologies, video and image processing, and Neural Network processors/accelerators/NPUs. The candidate will have sufficient experience with system-level design, hardware/software partitioning, power, and performance modeling/tradeoffs.
Expectations for a successful candidate are as follows:
Specific Responsibilities
As the Sr Director of System Architecture at Ambiq, you will lead architecture definition of various Ambiq low power AI SoC’s from initial concept to mass production.
This is a critical functional at Ambiq to support delivering the world’s lowest power electronic devices to enable ubiquitous AI at the edge. This is a cross-functional position working with software and hardware engineering teams, applications engineering and field teams to ensure alignment to product requirements, logical and physical design constraints, power and performance targets and overall system architecture. This role will encompass high level architecture specification, low level microarchitecture, process node dependent analysis, power/performance modeling, analysis, and use case definition.
Education and Experience:
The candidate should be comfortable with independent specification, analysis and development from high level concepts through design and validation as well as collaborative development with software and hardware engineering. A deep knowledge of embedded systems and microprocessor/microcontroller based AI System on Chip (SoC) specifically targeting wearable, IoT and mobile systems is critical along with specific experience delivering low power architectures to market. A working knowledge of SoC architecture, fabric/interconnect technologies, power management and advanced process nodes is required. Additionally, experience with wireless technologies and SoCs specifically Bluetooth, WiFi, NFC and GPS is preferred. The candidate should be comfortable with full system dataflows and modeling to guide hardware and software analysis and development.
Specific Experience
**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.
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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.
This role will be on-site 5 days a week in NW Austin.
Ambiq is seeking a Senior Director of Front-End Engineering to lead the design and implementation of our Edge AI MCU portfolio — driving the digital design, integration, and verification of ultra-low-power SoCs purpose-built for machine learning at the edge.
This is a hands-on, strategic leadership role responsible for building and scaling a world-class engineering organization that delivers breakthrough performance-per-microwatt. The ideal candidate combines deep technical acumen with people leadership excellence and has a proven record of bringing advanced SoCs from architecture to production.
Own and drive the front-end design of Ambiq’s Edge AI MCU platforms — including CPU subsystems, neural accelerators, security, memory, and peripheral integration.
Lead architecture definition, RTL design, and subsystem integration focused on power-optimized AI compute and real-time performance.
Develop and enforce world-class design methodologies across RTL, verification (UVM), and static checks (lint, CDC, DFT readiness).
Partner with Architecture and Physical Design teams to ensure seamless PPA optimization and first-silicon success.
Evaluate and deploy next-generation EDA tools, design automation, and verification infrastructure to accelerate tapeout readiness.
Drive design execution for multiple MCU programs concurrently, from concept through production tapeout.
Define and track program milestones, deliverables, and risk management plans with cross-functional stakeholders.
Establish design review frameworks and sign-off criteria ensuring predictable, high-quality execution.
Lead and grow a team of front-end engineers across design, verification, and integration disciplines.
Build a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and accountability.
Mentor senior technical staff and create clear pathways for career growth and technical leadership.
Collaborate closely with system architects, analog/mixed-signal, and validation teams to co-optimize hardware and software performance.
Partner with Product Management to translate application requirements (vision, voice, sensing) into silicon-level specifications.
Interface with Operations, Test, and Product Engineering to ensure DFT, yield, and manufacturability goals are achieved.
20+ years of experience in semiconductor front-end design and verification, with 15+ years in a leadership capacity managing multi-disciplinary teams.
Proven track record of delivering MCU, SoC, or ASIC products into high-volume production.
Expertise in low-power digital design, including multi-voltage domains, power gating, and clock management.
Strong hands-on understanding of SystemVerilog, UVM, and synthesis/STA methodologies.
Familiarity with ARM Cortex-M/R/A or RISC-V architectures and on-chip interconnects (AHB/AXI).
Education: BS/MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering required; Ph.D. preferred.
Experience with subthreshold or near-threshold design techniques and power modeling.
Knowledge of EDA flows at advanced process nodes (16nm and below).
First-pass silicon success across multiple Edge AI MCU programs.
Demonstrable improvements in design productivity, quality, and predictability.
Market-leading metrics enabling industry-best energy efficiency.
A cohesive, motivated team operating at high technical and cultural standards.
**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.
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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.
Scope
As a Sr. Staff Engineer - Timing Methodology, you will play a critical role in transforming our cutting-edge designs into silicon reality. You will be responsible for all aspects of timing closure from defining methodology, developing flows, closing timing at the block level and timing convergence at SOC level as well.
Responsibilities: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.
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