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Ambiq is a semiconductor company 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, 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.
As Senior Staff Software Engineer for Power Management, you will drive the software architecture, requirements, development, testing, and performance optimization of the SDK power management software for Ambiq's latest family of low-power Edge AI MCUs. You will work closely with SoC hardware power architects, product marketing, validation teams, and IP vendors to define the software architecture, functional partitioning, and requirements for the platform's power management infrastructure.
Key responsibilities include:
- Define software requirements and functional allocations based on input from hardware architects, product marketing, and development teams
- Design, develop, debug, profile, and optimize the AmbiqSuite SDK power management software, including power modeling and characterization
- Own SoC software architecture, performance, and power optimization, identifying opportunities to reduce power consumption
- Work with product marketing, field engineering, validation, and system test teams to translate customer use cases into software requirements
- Serve as technical authority for power management software, reviewing designs, architecture, code, test plans, and validation results
- Drive cross-functional technical discussions with hardware architects, firmware developers, validation, and IP vendors
- Diagnose complex system-level issues spanning hardware and software, evaluating architectural trade-offs
- Develop software for low-power operating modes, clock management, memory retention, and wake-up sequencing
- Define and implement methodologies, tools, and metrics for measuring and optimizing software power consumption
- Ensure power-optimized implementation of RTOS ports for Ambiq SoCs
- Provide technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and establishing best practices
This is a hands-on technical leadership role requiring extensive experience in early-stage software architecture and embedded software development. The successful candidate will have a proven track record of designing, implementing, debugging, profiling, and optimizing embedded software for ARM Cortex-M processors using an RTOS. The role encompasses power management infrastructure, memory control and retention, clock management, low-power operating modes, and software techniques for optimizing system-level power consumption. The position is on-site 5 days per week in NW Austin.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- 10+ years of experience developing embedded software for ARM Cortex-M–based systems in bare-metal and RTOS environments
- Expert-level C/C++ programming skills, with experience developing low-level firmware, device drivers, hardware abstraction layers (HAL), and startup code; ARM assembly language experience is a plus
- Strong understanding of SoC architecture, including processor subsystems, memory hierarchy, bus interconnects, interrupts, DMA engines, cache architectures, memory protection, inter-processor communication, and shared memory systems
- Proven experience designing, implementing, debugging, profiling, and optimizing software for ultra-low-power embedded systems
- Strong understanding of embedded power management techniques, including clock management, voltage and frequency scaling, power domains, memory retention, clock gating, and low-power operating modes
- Experience profiling and analyzing power consumption across software and hardware boundaries, identifying and resolving system-level performance and power bottlenecks
- Hands-on experience using embedded development and debug tools, including JTAG/SWD debuggers, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power analyzers, and software profiling tools
- Experience developing software using modern software engineering practices, including Git-based source control, code reviews, continuous integration, and automated testing
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with ability to lead technical discussions across hardware and software disciplines
- Must independently manage assigned tasks, prioritize workload, and meet deadlines with minimal supervision
- Preferred: experience defining software architectures and technical requirements for complex embedded systems; knowledge of power requirements of wireless protocols (BLE, WiFi, 802.15.4); experience with FreeRTOS and Zephyr; familiarity with MCU IDEs on Windows from ARM/Keil, IAR, Eclipse, or others
- Must be currently authorized to work in the United States; no visa sponsorship available
