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Ambiq is on a mission to enable intelligence everywhere by powering the AI edge revolution with the world's lowest-power semiconductor solutions. Built on proprietary sub- and near-threshold technology, the company's chips deliver multi-fold improvements in energy efficiency. Since 2010, Ambiq has shipped over 300 million units to customers building smarter wearables, medical devices, IoT products, and AI-powered edge applications.
As Principal Engineer, Analog Design (Team Lead), you will contribute to the technical roadmap and architecture for the company's core analog subsystems—including PMUs, clocking, and data converters—while directly leading and developing a team of analog designers. This role sets technical direction across multiple concurrent programs, partners with Architecture, RTL, and Product teams at the roadmap level, and represents Ambiq's analog design capability to customers and partners. Designs span leading-edge technologies such as 22nm, 12nm, and beyond.
You will balance individual technical contribution with people leadership: driving the highest-risk architectural decisions personally while coaching Staff and Senior engineers through their own design cycles, spec definition, and career growth. The successful candidate is a proven technical leader who elevates the people around them, sets a high bar for design rigor, and is comfortable being the final escalation point on the toughest analog design and organizational challenges.
Key responsibilities include owning multi-generation architecture strategy and chip/block-level spec definition across analog subsystems; leading, mentoring, and growing a team of analog design engineers including hiring, career development, and performance management; setting technical standards and design methodology for circuit architecture, verification, and layout supervision; making final calls on the highest-risk circuit architecture and verification trade-offs; directly conducting or supervising transistor-level analog IC design for the most critical or novel circuit blocks; chairing design reviews across multiple projects and driving resolution of complex action items; partnering with digital design leadership to align interface specs and verification strategy for analog/digital integration; owning the analog test and validation strategy from prototype bring-up through high-volume production; representing analog engineering in cross-functional roadmap, customer, and executive discussions; supporting Marketing, Product Engineering, and Applications leadership on product definition and customer commitments; and driving continuous improvement in design flow, tools, and reuse strategy across the analog team.
This role is onsite with an expectation of 5 days per week on-site presence.
Requirements: The posting does not explicitly state years of experience, specific certifications, or formal education requirements. However, the role implicitly requires extensive analog IC design expertise at the transistor level, proven experience leading and managing engineering teams, deep knowledge of circuit architecture and verification methodologies, experience with advanced process nodes (22nm, 12nm and beyond), and demonstrated ability to drive technical strategy and cross-functional collaboration at the executive level.
