Staff Applications Hardware Engineer
Job Description
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 300 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
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 electronic
s devices.
Experience with wearable devices is a definite plus.
The candidate must have
experience with
developing
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 support
ing
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
Conduct customer hardware design reviews, help debug customer hardware issues, bridge the communication between field and engineering teams, 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
Qualifications
MS in
ECE and
6
+
years of experience or BS ECE with
8
+
years of experience
Experience with hardware architecture design,
component
placement, layout, manufacturing test, system bring-up and testing.
Experience designing PCB schematics and layout using Altium Designer, Cadence, or similar PCB design software
Experience
with MCU peripherals including SPI, I2C, UART, ADC, MIPI, USB, I2S and
PDM
.
.
Experience with controlled impedance and high-speed interface PCB layout
Experience working hands-on in the lab and using test equipment such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers
Excellent problem-solving skills dealing with complex system level issues related to HW/SW debug
Experience with at least one MCU IDE from ARM, Keil, IAR, Eclipse or other is a plus
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.