Staff Applications Hardware Engineer

The role

You will drive the development of internal and customer facing evaluation hardware. You will work with software, design, and field engineering teams to provide solutions for evaluating SoC performance and power.

What you will do

• PCB hardware architecture, design, development, and testing
• Collaborate with internal engineering and validation teams to analyze and debug complex system level issues
• Conduct customer hardware design reviews and help debug customer hardware issues
• Bridge communication between field and engineering teams and manage issue status tracking
• Assist with the design, debug, and testing of embedded microcontroller software drivers, algorithms, application code, board support packages, automated scripts, and design test cases
• Develop manufacturing test procedures and hardware for board builds overseas
• Create application notes, knowledgebase articles, and hardware design guidelines
• Assist customers with the use of Ambiq SDK and hardware platforms

Required qualifications

• MS in ECE and 6 + years of experience or BS ECE with 8 + years of experience
• Experience with hardware architecture design, component placement, layout, manufacturing test, system bring-up and testing
• Experience designing PCB schematics and layout using Altium Designer, Cadence, or similar PCB design software
• Experience with MCU peripherals including SPI, I2C, UART, ADC, MIPI, USB, I2S and PDM
• Experience with controlled impedance and high-speed interface PCB layout
• Experience working hands-on in the lab and using test equipment such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers
• Excellent problem-solving skills dealing with complex system level issues related to HW/SW debug

Nice to have

• Experience with wearable devices
• Experience with at least one MCU IDE from ARM, Keil, IAR, Eclipse or other

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.