Director - Silicon Validation

The role

The Director, Silicon Validation Engineering defines and executes post-silicon validation strategy for SoCs and edge AI products. This leader provides strategic leadership for validation, characterization, bring-up, and debug across multiple product families.

What you will do

• Lead Ambiq's silicon validation organization across multiple SoC and edge AI product families.
• Define validation strategy, methodologies, automation, and engineering best practices.
• Drive post-silicon bring-up, validation, characterization, debug, and production test correlation.
• Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing global validation team across engineering sites.
• Partner with Architecture, Design, Verification, Firmware, Systems, Product Engineering, and Applications teams.
• Establish scalable validation infrastructure, automation frameworks, and lab capabilities.
• Manage project priorities, staffing, schedules, and technical risk.
• Provide technical leadership for complex silicon debug and customer issue resolution.
• Influence engineering direction across multiple product families.

Required qualifications

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 15+ years of semiconductor engineering experience, including post-silicon validation, characterization, or silicon bring-up.
• 5+ years leading engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, and organizational development.
• Demonstrated success validating complex mixed-signal SoCs and bringing products from first silicon to production.
• Strong understanding of digital, analog, embedded software, and power management systems.
• Experience developing validation automation using Python, TCL, C/C++, or similar languages.
• Hands-on experience with lab instrumentation, silicon debug, and characterization.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive execution across globally distributed engineering organization.
• Experience with ultra-low-power SoCs, edge AI devices, and ARM core architectures.
• Experience with advanced power management architectures, low-power design techniques, dynamic voltage/frequency scaling, and power optimization.
• Experience supporting wireless SoCs including Bluetooth LE, Matter, Thread, Wi-Fi, or similar technologies.
• Experience developing validation methodologies, workflows, and reusable automation frameworks.

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.