SoC Architect

The role

You will serve as the primary architectural guide for the Singapore engineering team. You will focus on SoC peripheral subsystems including audio, imaging, display, and high- and low-speed interfaces for battery-powered wearables and IoT devices.

What you will do

• Create architecture specifications for SoC peripheral subsystems including micro-architecture, flow diagrams, and power models
• Define off-die interfaces including modes, electrical behavior, and integration requirements
• Debug at RTL and gate level with the design team
• Partner with physical design to ensure optimal implementation
• Perform power and performance trade-off analysis across die, package, board, and software
• Investigate, assess, and select IP with build-vs-license recommendations
• Create integration specifications for system interfaces and external power management
• Provide post-silicon analysis and support for mass production
• Define use cases and test cases for validation

Required qualifications

• Authorship of architectural specifications for SoCs, ASICs, or silicon IP
• 8+ years in SoC or ASIC architecture and design, or silicon IP development targeting wearable, IoT, or mobile-class products
• Experience architecting SoC connections to audio, imaging, display, and high- and low-speed links
• Working knowledge of interface requirements including board-level electrical constraints, cable and connector requirements, PHY integration, and operating-system driver models
• Proven experience bringing low-power silicon architectures to market
• Track record of taking novel solutions from concept through specification, design, and post-silicon validation
• Working knowledge of low-power mobile consumer systems, and of embedded imaging or neural network processing
• Strong systems-level thinking across the hardware/software boundary
• Ability to build consensus and drive architectural alignment across geographically distributed teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science

Nice to have

• MS or PhD in a related field
• SoC fabric and interconnect technologies, power management architecture, UPF/power-aware design flows
• Hands-on experience with advanced process nodes
• Some team lead or management experience

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.