Ambiq Micro Inc
Overview
Description
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 increased power requirements of artificial intelligence (AI) computing, our customers increasingly rely 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 started in 2010 addressing the needs of battery-powered devices at the edge, where power consumption challenges were most profound. As of the beginning of 2025, we’ve shipped more than 260 million units worldwide.
Our innovative and fast-moving teams of research, development, production, marketing, sales, and operations are spread across several continents, including the US (Austin and San Jose), Taiwan (Hsinchu), China (Shenzhen and Shanghai), Japan (Tokyo), and Singapore. We value continued technology innovation, fanatical attention to customer needs, collaborative decision-making, and enthusiasm for 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 for growth and opportunities to work on complex, engaging, and challenging projects that will create a lasting impact. Join us on our quest for 100 billion devices. The endpoint intelligence revolution starts here.
Scope The Sr. Multimedia System Architect will be responsible for developing next-generation ultra-low power, high-performance graphics, display, imaging, and AI architectures for future Ambiq SoC products. The candidate will work with the Marketing, Advanced Development, and Engineering teams to develop next-generation architecture specifications and ensure delivery into Ambiq products. Areas of interest include: low-power embedded 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 and requirements on the multimedia architecture, hardware/software partitioning, power and performance modeling/tradeoffs, and power management. This position will report directly to the VP of Architecture.
Expectations for a successful candidate are as follows:
Work with Ambiq’s Marketing, Advanced Development, architecture, and engineering teams to drive development of new ultra-low power multimedia architectures on Ambiq Micro’s technology and product roadmaps
Develop high-level specifications and drive power/performance modeling and analysis
Analyze low-power multimedia technology and applications to identify opportunities for extending Ambiq’s low-power leadership
Define Ambiq’s multimedia and AI technology roadmap, including external and internal IP assessment, definition, and integration
Work with the engineering teams to transition the architecture specification into Ambiq Micro’s products
Work with systems, solutions, and software teams to ensure robust interfaces and support key product use cases
Support post-silicon analysis and efficient delivery of multimedia functionality to customers for mass production
Responsibilities Specific Responsibilities
As the Sr Multimedia System Architect at Ambiq, you will drive the architecture 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 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.
Architecture specifications including flow diagrams/sequences, power/performance models, and pseudocode
Customer interaction as needed to ensure alignment on key multimedia features and competitive product positioning
Microarchitecture specifications (as applicable) and support to enable software and hardware design
Support for use case and test case development
Integration specifications to support system interfaces and external power management requirements/interfaces
Work with FPGA team to bring up critical multimedia features
Work with software architecture to define multimedia flows, APIs, and hardware abstraction layers
Work with the physical design team to ensure robust/optimal implementation
Work with the design team to debug issues using RTL and gate-level simulation
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, 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
Minimum of 8 years of graphics, display, video, imaging or neural networks or similar architecture and design experience targeting wearable/IoT and mobile products
Experience developing novel multimedia architectures from idea to specification to design to post-silicon validation
Working knowledge of low-power modern mobile consumer electronic systems and embedded graphics, imaging or neural network processing required
Experience in embedded display technologies and low-power interfaces required
Experience in advanced process technologies is highly desirable
BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science (must have); MS or PhD (preferred)
Individual contributor role, but some management/team lead experience is nice-to-have
Must have experience creating architectural specifications for System-on-Chip or similar complex hardware devices
Must communicate well (verbal and written)
What you need We're seeking passionate technologists who thrive on breaking boundaries, solving complex challenges, and driving transformative solutions.
At Ambiq, you'll collaborate with a dynamic team that values relentless innovation, customer-centric thinking, and continuous learning. If you're a self-motivated, creative problem-solver eager to push technological limits and make a meaningful impact in energy efficiency, this is your opportunity to grow, excel, and turn groundbreaking ideas into reality.
Most importantly, the successful candidate will be able to live the Ambiq Shared Values:
Innovate: We tenaciously find ways to break down the barriers to possible solutions
Collaborate: We proactively communicate and encourage each other to be better.
Focus: We keep the voice of the customer at the center of everything we do.
Learn: We strive for continuous improvement and are always curious.
Achieve: We execute on quality and follow through on our commitments
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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 increased power requirements of artificial intelligence (AI) computing, our customers increasingly rely 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 started in 2010 addressing the needs of battery-powered devices at the edge, where power consumption challenges were most profound. As of the beginning of 2025, we’ve shipped more than 260 million units worldwide.
Our innovative and fast-moving teams of research, development, production, marketing, sales, and operations are spread across several continents, including the US (Austin and San Jose), Taiwan (Hsinchu), China (Shenzhen and Shanghai), Japan (Tokyo), and Singapore. We value continued technology innovation, fanatical attention to customer needs, collaborative decision-making, and enthusiasm for 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 for growth and opportunities to work on complex, engaging, and challenging projects that will create a lasting impact. Join us on our quest for 100 billion devices. The endpoint intelligence revolution starts here.
Scope The Sr. Multimedia System Architect will be responsible for developing next-generation ultra-low power, high-performance graphics, display, imaging, and AI architectures for future Ambiq SoC products. The candidate will work with the Marketing, Advanced Development, and Engineering teams to develop next-generation architecture specifications and ensure delivery into Ambiq products. Areas of interest include: low-power embedded 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 and requirements on the multimedia architecture, hardware/software partitioning, power and performance modeling/tradeoffs, and power management. This position will report directly to the VP of Architecture.
Expectations for a successful candidate are as follows:
Work with Ambiq’s Marketing, Advanced Development, architecture, and engineering teams to drive development of new ultra-low power multimedia architectures on Ambiq Micro’s technology and product roadmaps
Develop high-level specifications and drive power/performance modeling and analysis
Analyze low-power multimedia technology and applications to identify opportunities for extending Ambiq’s low-power leadership
Define Ambiq’s multimedia and AI technology roadmap, including external and internal IP assessment, definition, and integration
Work with the engineering teams to transition the architecture specification into Ambiq Micro’s products
Work with systems, solutions, and software teams to ensure robust interfaces and support key product use cases
Support post-silicon analysis and efficient delivery of multimedia functionality to customers for mass production
Responsibilities Specific Responsibilities
As the Sr Multimedia System Architect at Ambiq, you will drive the architecture 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 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.
Architecture specifications including flow diagrams/sequences, power/performance models, and pseudocode
Customer interaction as needed to ensure alignment on key multimedia features and competitive product positioning
Microarchitecture specifications (as applicable) and support to enable software and hardware design
Support for use case and test case development
Integration specifications to support system interfaces and external power management requirements/interfaces
Work with FPGA team to bring up critical multimedia features
Work with software architecture to define multimedia flows, APIs, and hardware abstraction layers
Work with the physical design team to ensure robust/optimal implementation
Work with the design team to debug issues using RTL and gate-level simulation
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, 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
Minimum of 8 years of graphics, display, video, imaging or neural networks or similar architecture and design experience targeting wearable/IoT and mobile products
Experience developing novel multimedia architectures from idea to specification to design to post-silicon validation
Working knowledge of low-power modern mobile consumer electronic systems and embedded graphics, imaging or neural network processing required
Experience in embedded display technologies and low-power interfaces required
Experience in advanced process technologies is highly desirable
BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science (must have); MS or PhD (preferred)
Individual contributor role, but some management/team lead experience is nice-to-have
Must have experience creating architectural specifications for System-on-Chip or similar complex hardware devices
Must communicate well (verbal and written)
What you need We're seeking passionate technologists who thrive on breaking boundaries, solving complex challenges, and driving transformative solutions.
At Ambiq, you'll collaborate with a dynamic team that values relentless innovation, customer-centric thinking, and continuous learning. If you're a self-motivated, creative problem-solver eager to push technological limits and make a meaningful impact in energy efficiency, this is your opportunity to grow, excel, and turn groundbreaking ideas into reality.
Most importantly, the successful candidate will be able to live the Ambiq Shared Values:
Innovate: We tenaciously find ways to break down the barriers to possible solutions
Collaborate: We proactively communicate and encourage each other to be better.
Focus: We keep the voice of the customer at the center of everything we do.
Learn: We strive for continuous improvement and are always curious.
Achieve: We execute on quality and follow through on our commitments
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