Company Overview

Ambiq's mission is to develop the lowest-power semiconductor solutions to enable intelligent devices everywhere by developing the lowest-power semiconductor solutions to drive a more energy-efficient, sustainable, and data-driven world. Ambiq has helped leading manufacturers worldwide develop products that last weeks on a single charge (rather than days), while delivering a maximum feature set in compact industrial designs. Ambiq's goal is to take Artificial Intelligence (AI) where it has never gone before in mobile and portable devices, using Ambiq's advanced ultra-low power system on chip (SoC) solutions. Ambiq has shipped more than 250 million units by 2024. For more information, visit www.ambiq.com.

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

As the Staff Applications Software Engineer  at Ambiq, you will be responsible for supporting Ambiq’s Apollo family of SoCs.

This role will work with our hardware and software development teams, field engineering team, and customers to develop example applications for Ambiq and customer evaluation hardware, debug device level software issues, support field engineering with customer issues, develop device drivers for use with our SoC product family, and help to create customer facing documentation such as application notes and software design guidelines. 

The successful candidate should have a strong understanding of embedded development on Cortex-M MCUs, bare-metal and real time operating systems, and be familiar with debugging on the same. They must possess strong written and oral communication skills. 

Responsibilities

• Design, debug, porting, and analysis 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.
• Collaborate with internal development teams to analyze and debug complex system level issues and develop software solutions.
• Create application notes, knowledgebase articles, and software design guidelines.
• Assist customers with the use of the Ambiq SDKs and hardware platforms.
• Collaborate with hardware engineering in the architecture and design of hardware evaluation platforms, provide software for test and debug of hardware evaluation platforms. 
• Develop custom software functions and applications to facilitate microcontroller performance analysis and silicon issue debug.
• Bridge the communication between field and engineering teams for field issues and manage issue status tracking.

• MS in ECE or Computer Science and 5-7 years of experience or BS in ECE/CS with 6-8 years of experience.
• Experience developing embedded MCU code in C required.
• Experience with embedded systems in real-time environments. Zephyr ecosystem experience is plus.
• Experience with at least one MCU IDE from ARM, Keil, IAR, SEGGER, or other.
• Familiarity with MCU peripherals including SPI, I2C, UART, ADC, USB, I2S and PDM. MIPI and USB are a plus. 
• Experience working hands-on in the lab.
• Familiarity with source code control systems (git) required.
• Excellent problem-solving skills dealing with complex system level issues related to HW/SW debug.
• Experience in embedded security and cryptographic algorithms is a plus.
• Experience with embedded graphics and display technologies is a plus.
• Experience with scripting languages required and python experience is specifically desirable. 

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.