Ambiq Micro, Inc., Austin, Texas +1
Company Overview
Ambiq is on a mission to enable intelligence everywhere — powering the AI edge revolution with the world's lowest-power semiconductor solutions.
Built on our proprietary sub- and near-threshold technology, our chips deliver multi-fold improvements in energy efficiency without costly process scaling. Since 2010, we've shipped over 300 million units to customers building smarter wearables, medical devices, IoT products, and AI-powered edge applications.
Our cross-functional teams span design, research, development, production, marketing, sales, and operations across Austin, Hsinchu, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Singapore. We move fast, tackle hard problems, and create space for people to grow through complex, meaningful work that shapes the future of technology.
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. Collaborate. Focus. Learn. Achieve.
If that's you, join us – the intelligence everywhere revolution starts here.
This role will be on-site 5 days a week in NW Austin.
Scope
The Sr Director of System Architecture will serve as the lead architect, developing next-generation ultra-low-power, AI-based SoC architectures for future Ambiq products. The candidate will own the development and coordination of new product architectures with the Marketing, Advanced Development, and Engineering teams. This position will report directly to the VP of Architecture. Areas of interest include: low-power embedded microprocessor and microcontroller-based System on Chip (SoC), interconnect technologies, memory technologies and topologies, clocking, power management, as well as preferred familiarity with 2D and 3D graphics accelerators and display controller technologies, video and image processing, and Neural Network processors/accelerators/NPUs.
The candidate will have sufficient experience with system-level design, hardware/software partitioning, power, and performance modeling/tradeoffs.
The candidate should be comfortable with independent specification, analysis, and development from high-level concepts through design and validation, as well as collaborative development with software and hardware engineering. A deep knowledge of embedded systems and microprocessor/microcontroller-based AI System on Chip (SoC) specifically targeting wearable, IoT, and mobile systems is critical, along with specific experience delivering low-power architectures to market.
A working knowledge of SoC architecture, fabric/interconnect technologies, power management and advanced process nodes is required. Additionally, experience with wireless technologies and SoCs specifically Bluetooth, WiFi, NFC and GPS is preferred. The candidate should be comfortable with full system dataflows and modeling to guide hardware and software analysis and development.
Specific Responsibilities
As the Sr Director of System Architecture at Ambiq, you will lead the architecture definition of various Ambiq low-power AI SoCs from initial concept to mass production.
This is a critical function at Ambiq that supports the delivery of the world’s lowest-power electronic devices, enabling ubiquitous AI at the edge. This is a cross-functional position working with software and hardware engineering teams, applications engineering, and field teams to ensure alignment to product requirements, logical and physical design constraints, power and performance targets, and overall system architecture. This role will encompass high-level architectural specification, low-level microarchitecture, process-node-dependent analysis, power/performance modeling, and use-case definition.
**Must be currently authorized to work in the United States for any employer. We do not sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas (now or in the future) for this role.
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