Staff Validation Engineer - Wireless Radio Lead

The role

The Staff Validation Engineer, Wireless Radio Lead is a senior technical individual contributor. This person will lead the validation, characterization, and optimization of wireless radio subsystems for ultra-low-power SoCs.

What you will do

• Lead post-silicon validation, characterization, and optimization of Bluetooth Low Energy and other wireless radio subsystems.
• Define wireless validation methodologies, regression strategies, and automated test frameworks.
• Develop embedded firmware, software tools, and automation for RF validation, PHY characterization, and radio performance analysis.
• Design and execute validation plans covering RF performance, sensitivity, transmit power, coexistence, and power consumption.
• Develop validation hardware and laboratory infrastructure for RF characterization and compliance testing.
• Collaborate with Architecture, RF Design, Analog Design, Firmware, Systems Engineering, and Product Engineering to debug and optimize wireless performance.
• Analyze complex RF, analog, digital, and system-level issues to improve product performance, yield, and robustness.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership in wireless validation methodologies and best practices.

Required qualifications

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in wireless radio validation, RF characterization, or embedded wireless system development.
• Strong understanding of Bluetooth Low Energy radio architecture, RF fundamentals, and mixed-signal SoCs.
• Experience developing embedded firmware and validation automation using C/C++, Python, TCL, or similar languages.
• Hands-on experience with RF laboratory equipment, including spectrum analyzers, vector signal analyzers/generators, network analyzers, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers.
• Experience with RF characterization, antenna performance, impedance matching, and wireless compliance testing.
• Strong understanding of embedded systems, ARM-based SoCs, and low-power wireless architectures.
• Proven ability to analyze and debug complex RF, analog, digital, and system-level issues.
• Experience validating ultra-low-power wireless SoCs for edge AI or IoT applications.
• Familiarity with Bluetooth LE Audio, Matter, Thread, IEEE 802.15.4, or Wi-Fi technologies.
• Experience with RF coexistence, power optimization, and wireless protocol performance analysis.
• Experience with production test correlation, statistical characterization, and silicon debug.

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.