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 and Responsibilities

The Field Applications Engineer (FAE) will provide direct support to Global customers with a focus on customers in the assigned region. Support development and debug of products using Ambiq ultra-low power solutions. The candidate will assist in all aspects of customer design-in process and support customers HW and SW development through to full production. 

The candidate must quickly learn and support Ambiq products, read/write technical specifications/requirements, develop/refine hardware designs, apply system integration and lab skills, demonstrate strong problem solving abilities, and work closely with customers and internal engineering to help develop and launch customers’ new products. 

Will require traveling up to 50% of the time. 

This role can be based in the East Coast or Midwest.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Ambiq sales to support customer design-in activities starting from pre-sales activities
• Be an authority on low power design, and advise customers how to optimize power consumption at a system level
• Perform design reviews of customer schematics and PCB layouts 
• Assist customers in use of Ambiq MCU software development tools  
• Support bring up and debug of customer designs including software, hardware, and overall system
• Feedback customers’ inputs to marketing and engineering to shape the development of new ICs and reference designs
• Review customer software/hardware design requirements to understand current and future challenges
• Evangelize emerging technology and train/enable the sales team 

Ideal candidates will be an engineer with experience developing software and hardware in embedded systems. The candidate should have experience visiting and supporting customers and should be comfortable presenting and discussing complex technical topics. The ideal candidate will have experience with energy-constrained, battery-powered products and will have expertise in leading low power microcontrollers, DSPs, radios, and other peripherals from industry leaders. Knowledge of wearable and hearable product designs is desirable. Solid electrical engineering, embedded software/firmware development (C Programming Language), digital & analog circuit fundamentals and lab skills are a must. Strong communication and teamwork skills are required. Experience with wireless standards such as Bluetooth, WLAN, or ZigBee will be a plus and application experience with ARM based microcontrollers is strongly desired.

Specific Experience

• 7+ years’ experience in a Field Applications Engineering role or equivalent
• Extensive experience visiting, presenting to, and working with customers
• Experience with Embedded 32bit MCU software and hardware is required
• Experience with Cortex-M ARM-based microcontrollers is highly desirable
• Experience debugging common embedded MCU HW and SW issues
• Experience supporting and designing with low power radios (BLE, BT Classic, 802.15.4) is desirable 

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.