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Ambiq is a semiconductor company on a mission to enable intelligence everywhere by powering the AI edge revolution with ultra-low-power chip solutions. Built on proprietary sub- and near-threshold technology, Ambiq's chips deliver multi-fold improvements in energy efficiency. Since 2010, the company has shipped over 300 million units to customers building smarter wearables, medical devices, IoT products, and AI-powered edge applications.
The Senior Analog Validation Engineer is responsible for post-silicon validation and characterization of analog and mixed-signal subsystems within Ambiq's ultra-low-power SoCs. This role develops and executes analog validation plans, characterizes silicon performance across process, voltage, and temperature conditions, automates precision measurement and data analysis, and debugs complex interactions between analog, digital, firmware, and power management subsystems.
Key responsibilities include developing post-silicon validation plans for analog and mixed-signal SoC subsystems; characterizing analog IP across process, voltage, temperature, operating modes, and silicon margins; validating performance of analog blocks such as ADCs, DACs, comparators, oscillators, PLLs, references, sensors, regulators, and power management circuits; developing automated test software, embedded firmware, data logging, analysis, and report-generation tools; performing detailed analysis of analog performance including accuracy, linearity, noise, offset, gain, timing, stability, frequency response, and power consumption; correlating silicon results with design expectations, simulation, ATE, and production test data; debugging complex SoC-level issues involving interactions between analog, digital, firmware, clocks, power management, and board-level hardware; supporting validation hardware and test board development; and collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve test coverage, product robustness, yield, and production readiness.
The successful candidate will work closely with Analog Design, Digital Design, Verification, Firmware, Systems Engineering, Product Engineering, and ATE teams to ensure analog IP meets performance targets, specification limits, and product requirements from first silicon through production. This is a 5-day-per-week on-site role in NW Austin.
