Field Application Engineer - Central US

The role

The Field Applications Engineer provides direct support to global customers in the assigned region. This person will support the development and debug of products using Ambiq ultra-low power solutions and assist in the customer design-in process.

What you will do

• Work closely with Ambiq sales to support customer design-in activities
• Advise customers on optimizing 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
• Review customer software/hardware design requirements
• Evangelize emerging technology and train/enable the sales team

Required qualifications

• 8+ years experience in a Field Applications Engineering role in the semiconductor industry
• Extensive experience visiting, presenting to, and working with customers
• Experience with embedded 32-bit MCU software and hardware
• Experience debugging common embedded MCU HW and SW issues
• Solid electrical engineering, embedded software/firmware development (C Programming Language), digital & analog circuit fundamentals, and lab skills
• Strong communication and teamwork skills
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (or related field) or 10+ years of directly related professional experience

Nice to have

• Experience with energy-constrained, battery-powered products
• Expertise in leading low-power microcontrollers, DSPs, radios, and other peripherals
• Knowledge of wearable and hearable product designs
• Experience with wireless standards such as Bluetooth, WLAN, or ZigBee
• Application experience with ARM-based microcontrollers
• Experience with Cortex-M ARM-based microcontrollers
• Experience with Zephyr RTOS, particularly configuring and debugging BLE-enabled embedded MCU applications
• Experience supporting and designing with low-power radios (BLE, BT Classic, 802.15.4)

Before you apply

• 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

About the company

Ambiq is on a mission to enable intelligence everywhere by powering the AI edge revolution with low-power semiconductor solutions. Since 2010, they have shipped over 300 million units to customers building wearables, medical devices, IoT products, and AI-powered edge applications.