Ambiq
Overview
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 the increasing power requirements of artificial intelligence (AI) computing, our customers rely on our solutions to deliver AI to edge environments. Our hardware and software innovations deliver a multi-fold improvement in power consumption over traditional semiconductor designs without expensive process geometry scaling. As of the beginning of 2025, we've shipped more than 280+ million units worldwide. Our innovative and fast-moving teams of design, research, development, production, marketing, sales, and operations are spread across several continents, including the US (Austin), Taiwan (Hsinchu), China (Shanghai and Shenzhen), and Singapore. We value relentless technology innovation, a deep commitment to customer success, collaborative problem-solving, and an enthusiastic pursuit of energy efficiency. We embrace candidates who share these values. The successful candidate must be self-motivated, creative, and comfortable learning and driving exciting new technologies. Scope
At Ambiq, the Endpoint AI team enables state-of-the-art ML and DL model development across our hardware portfolio, using sophisticated model compression techniques to deploy previously impractical AI tasks to battery-powered environments. Our team of data scientists researches neural architectures best suited to our customer’s needs, selects those models most amenable to deployment on our platform, and trains them, carefully tuning for memory, compute, and energy constraint tradeoffs. Finally, we publish our findings to our Model Zoo and socialize them via conferences, workshops, and publications. Beyond a healthy obsession with computational efficiency, the successful candidate will be comfortable with operating in a ‘version zero’ environment, marshaling internal, open source, and third-party resources to solve our customer’s problems quickly and elegantly. Requirements
Identify, refine, and/or develop sophisticated ML and DL models for deployment on highly constrained environments. Train models using SOTA compression techniques to fit in specific memory, compute, and power envelopes, making trade-offs between compression and accuracy. Publish and maintain these models in a Model Zoo, including documentation and other assets needed by our customers to bootstrap their internal AI features. Socialize their achievements via conferences, meetups, workshops, and publications. Required Skills/Abilities
Experience with SOTA pruning, distillation, quantization approaches for CNNs and RNNs Experience with one or more of the following AI task domains: audio classification, speech, vision, and/or time series tasks, including domain-specific feature extraction related to those tasks TensorFlow (TFLite, TFLite for Microcontrollers, and/or PyTorch are a plus) Dataset creation and curation Bonus Qualifications
Past “TinyML” involvement or experience Experience developing and optimizing for TFLite for Microcontrollers Experience with embedded C/C++ environments Experience with compression of attention-based architectures Experience with model-to-binary compilers (IREE, MicroTVM, etc) Experience with ONNX, TOSA, Jax, LLVM, and/or MLIR Experience with optimizing for heterogeneous AI compute (e.g. CPU+NPU+DSP) Education and Experience
A bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field is required with at least 2 years of relevant experience. A master’s degree or PhD in related topics is highly desirable. What You Need
We're seeking passionate technologists who thrive on pushing 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 Seniority level
Entry level Employment type
Full-time Job function
Research and Engineering Industries: Semiconductor Manufacturing Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Ambiq by 2x Get notified about new Development Engineer jobs in Austin, TX.
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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 the increasing power requirements of artificial intelligence (AI) computing, our customers rely on our solutions to deliver AI to edge environments. Our hardware and software innovations deliver a multi-fold improvement in power consumption over traditional semiconductor designs without expensive process geometry scaling. As of the beginning of 2025, we've shipped more than 280+ million units worldwide. Our innovative and fast-moving teams of design, research, development, production, marketing, sales, and operations are spread across several continents, including the US (Austin), Taiwan (Hsinchu), China (Shanghai and Shenzhen), and Singapore. We value relentless technology innovation, a deep commitment to customer success, collaborative problem-solving, and an enthusiastic pursuit of energy efficiency. We embrace candidates who share these values. The successful candidate must be self-motivated, creative, and comfortable learning and driving exciting new technologies. Scope
At Ambiq, the Endpoint AI team enables state-of-the-art ML and DL model development across our hardware portfolio, using sophisticated model compression techniques to deploy previously impractical AI tasks to battery-powered environments. Our team of data scientists researches neural architectures best suited to our customer’s needs, selects those models most amenable to deployment on our platform, and trains them, carefully tuning for memory, compute, and energy constraint tradeoffs. Finally, we publish our findings to our Model Zoo and socialize them via conferences, workshops, and publications. Beyond a healthy obsession with computational efficiency, the successful candidate will be comfortable with operating in a ‘version zero’ environment, marshaling internal, open source, and third-party resources to solve our customer’s problems quickly and elegantly. Requirements
Identify, refine, and/or develop sophisticated ML and DL models for deployment on highly constrained environments. Train models using SOTA compression techniques to fit in specific memory, compute, and power envelopes, making trade-offs between compression and accuracy. Publish and maintain these models in a Model Zoo, including documentation and other assets needed by our customers to bootstrap their internal AI features. Socialize their achievements via conferences, meetups, workshops, and publications. Required Skills/Abilities
Experience with SOTA pruning, distillation, quantization approaches for CNNs and RNNs Experience with one or more of the following AI task domains: audio classification, speech, vision, and/or time series tasks, including domain-specific feature extraction related to those tasks TensorFlow (TFLite, TFLite for Microcontrollers, and/or PyTorch are a plus) Dataset creation and curation Bonus Qualifications
Past “TinyML” involvement or experience Experience developing and optimizing for TFLite for Microcontrollers Experience with embedded C/C++ environments Experience with compression of attention-based architectures Experience with model-to-binary compilers (IREE, MicroTVM, etc) Experience with ONNX, TOSA, Jax, LLVM, and/or MLIR Experience with optimizing for heterogeneous AI compute (e.g. CPU+NPU+DSP) Education and Experience
A bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field is required with at least 2 years of relevant experience. A master’s degree or PhD in related topics is highly desirable. What You Need
We're seeking passionate technologists who thrive on pushing 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 Seniority level
Entry level Employment type
Full-time Job function
Research and Engineering Industries: Semiconductor Manufacturing Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Ambiq by 2x Get notified about new Development Engineer jobs in Austin, TX.
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