Ambiq Micro, Inc.

Ambiq Micro, Inc.

Sr. Staff SoC Power & Performance Architect

Austin, Texas, United States · Staff+

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About the role

  • If that's you, join us - the intelligence everywhere revolution starts here.
  • This role is ideal for a senior low-power SoC architect who enjoys hands-on analysis, silicon debug, architecture specification, automation, and customer-facing technical influence.
  • This role will be onsite 5 days a week in Austin, TX office.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain SoC, subsystem, and use-case-level power budgets.
  • Drive variance analysis against power and performance targets, surfacing risks early.
  • Lead architectural debug of power anomalies in simulation, emulation, or silicon.
  • Develop and automate power modeling infrastructure, reporting flows, regression dashboards, and analysis tooling using Python and/or TCL.
  • Support use-case and test-case development.
  • Partner with physical design on power domain partitioning and UPF/power intent mapping.
  • Support FPGA teams during early bring-up of power management and global flows.
  • Support pre-sales, field engineering, RFQ/RFI responses, customer meetings, and customer use-case power estimation as Ambiq's P&P subject-matter expert.
  • Built on our proprietary sub- and near-threshold technology, our chips deliver multi-fold improvements in energy efficiency without costly process scaling.
  • Our cross-functional teams span design, research, development, production, marketing, sales, and operations across Austin, Hsinchu, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Singapore.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of architecture experience in low-power SoC, embedded SoC, semiconductor, MCU, processor, or related silicon environments.
  • Experience with Cadence Genus or equivalent industry power analysis tooling (Cadence Joules, Synopsys PrimePower, Siemens PowerPro).
  • Experience with power-aware simulation flows.
  • Experience with collaboration tools such as Confluence, SharePoint, JIRA, and Git.
  • BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
  • Hands-on ownership of power and/or performance analysis, budgeting, and debug.
  • Strong Python and/or TCL scripting for modeling, automation, reporting, and analysis.
  • Demonstrated ability to write architecture and microarchitecture specifications that engineering teams can build from.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to work effectively across hardware, software, physical design, validation, applications, field, marketing, and sales teams.

Nice to have

  • MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
  • 10+ years of semiconductor or embedded SoC industry experience.
  • UPF / IEEE 1801 authoring or review experience.
  • Clocking/reset architecture experience.
  • Arm Cortex-M architecture experience.
  • Experience with Arm Cortex-A, RISC-V, DSP, or heterogeneous multicore architectures.
  • Experience with APB, AHB, AXI, NoC, cache, pseudo-SRAM, DRAM, non-volatile memory, or high-bandwidth memory topologies.
  • Prior customer-facing, pre-sales, field, or applications engineering engagement.

Benefits

  • Since 2010, we've shipped over 300 million units to customers building smarter wearables, medical devices, IoT products, and AI-powered edge applications.

Company info

  • We're looking for self-motivated, creative problem-solvers who are eager to push technological limits and make a real impact in energy efficiency.
  • At Ambiq, we live by five values: Innovate.
  • Ambiq is on a mission to enable intelligence everywhere - powering the AI edge revolution with the world's lowest-power semiconductor solutions.
  • At Ambiq, we live by five values:

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Must be currently authorized to work in the United States for any employer.
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