Senior Engineer - Applications Hardware

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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 Senior 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 electronics devices. Experience with wearable devices is a definite plus. The candidate must have experience with developing for 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 supporting 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
• Bridge the communication between field and engineering teams for field issues 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

Requirements:

• MS in ECE and 3-5 years of experience or BS ECE with 4-6 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
• Familiarity with MCU peripherals including SPI, I2C, UART, ADC, MIPI, USB, I2S and PDM is a plus.
• 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

What You'll Need:

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.