Scope  

As a Senior Embedded Software Engineer at Ambiq, you will lead the development, integration, and verification of the AmbiqSuite SDK for common IP blocks across Ambiq’s advanced SoC and emulation platforms.

In this role, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional experts throughout the IC development lifecycle, including SoC Architecture, IC Design, Production, Applications, and Customer Enablement teams. Your work will play a key role in enabling customers to successfully develop and deploy products on Ambiq’s latest SoC platforms.

The successful candidate should be a fast learner, results-driven, self-motivated, and collaborative team player with an “always learning” mindset. You should bring strong hands-on experience in low-level embedded C programming and be comfortable working in a lab environment, performing hardware bring-up, debugging, and validation.

This role is responsible for extending the hardware abstraction layer (HAL) and device drivers within the SDK to support new platforms, while continuously improving SDK features, quality, and content. You will also contribute to expanding SDK support for new MCU family members as they are introduced.

Responsibilities 

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of HAL interfaces for MCU common blocks, including data movement engines, clock management, power management, and MCU control.
• Design, develop, and maintain software examples and test cases for MCU common blocks.
• Play a key role in pre-silicon verification on FPGA platforms and in post-silicon bring-up, verification, and debug, focusing on MCU cores and common blocks.
• Develop and maintain real-time operating system ports for Ambiq MCUs.
• Collaborate with and support design verification (DV) and validation engineers, field engineers, and key customers as needed.

Qualifications 

The Senior Embedded Software Engineer should have strong experience in the design, development, and use of HAL and BSP libraries for MCU-based products. Experience with embedded applications for wearable devices is preferred. The ideal candidate will also have extensive hands-on experience developing for and debugging on Arm-based platforms.

• MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering or Computer Science, or other related field with 3-5 years of relevant experience, or Bachelor’s degree in the same fields with 4-6 years of relevant experience.
• Deep understanding of Arm Cortex-M architectures.
• Proven experience developing embedded MCU software in C and assembly for Arm Cortex-M processors.
• Strong understanding of embedded RTOS concepts and development; FreeRTOS experience preferred.
• Experience with at least one MCU IDE for ARM, such as Keil, IAR, Eclipse, Ozone, or equivalent.
• Solid understanding of common MCU peripherals and interfaces, such as SPI, I2C, UART, etc.
• Hands-on experience using lab equipment such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers for system bring-up and debugging.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, and other collaboration tools.
• Proficiency with source code version control systems, including Git.
• Good understanding of software testing and test automation principles.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to debug complex system-level hardware and software issues.
• Experience with scripting languages is required; Python experience is highly desirable.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, along with solid technical documentation ability.

Scope

As the Senior Embedded Graphics Software Engineer at Ambiq, you will support the development and testing of AmbiqSuite SDK on Ambiq SoC devices and emulation platforms, focusing on the graphics processing unit (GPU) Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) and the graphics stack for Ambiq’s mainstream and next-generation MCU. 

This role works within our global MCU software development team and will work closely with more senior graphics software development team members, focusing on MCU graphics software development and test activities.    

The successful candidate should be a fast-learning, result-driven, and self-motivated team player with an “always learning” mindset. He should have an inquiring spirit and be comfortable in a lab environment and in executing hands-on debugging for embedded systems. 

The person in this role will be responsible for maintaining the current platform and extending the GPU HAL and software stack of the graphics SDK to new platforms as well as enhancing its features and content. The candidate will be involved in the extension of the SDK to cover new MCU members of the family as they become available.   

Responsibilities 

• Collaborate with software senior graphics software developers to implement the HAL and graphics API for the embedded GPU on Ambiq MCUs. 

• Design, implement and maintain the graphics API and the underlying graphics software stack, including the GPU and Display HAL layers. 

• Develop and maintain example applications and test cases to demonstrate and validate graphics features. 

• Play a key role in GPU-focused pre-silicon verification on FPGA platforms, as well as post-silicon bring-up, system validation, and debugging. 

• Provide support to Design Verification (DV), system validation teams, field engineers, and key customers as needed. 

Qualifications 

• MS in ECE or Computer Science and 4+ years of experience or BS ECE/CS with 6+ years of experience. 

• Expertise in at least one embedded GPU IP, with a solid understanding of the full graphics pipeline and hands-on experience developing HAL and graphics software stacks. 

• Experience with OpenGL ES or other 3D graphics APIs. 

• Experience with graphics frameworks such as LVGL is preferred 

• Experience with vector graphics acceleration or software libraries is preferred. 

• Experience with embedded system display interfaces, such as MIPI DSI, DBI, DPI, or Memory-In-Pixel. 

• In-depth knowledge of ARM architecture, with a preference for M-profile (Cortex-M) cores preferred. 

• Strong understanding of embedded RTOS concepts; experience with Zephyr and FreeRTOS is preferred. 

• Experience with developing embedded MCU code in C and assembly language on Arm Cortex-M Processors, with at least one MCU IDE from ARM, Keil, IAR, Eclipse, O-zone or other. 

• Good hands-on experience with lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers etc. for debugging issues.  

• Experience with Jira, Confluence and collaboration tools.  

• Experience with source code control systems (git) required.  

• Understanding software testing and test automation principles.  

• Excellent problem-solving skills dealing with complex system level issues related to HW/SW debug. 

• Experience with scripting languages required and python experience is desirable. 

• Strong communication and documentation skills.