Field Application Engineer

Company Overview

Ambiq is on a mission to enable intelligence everywhere — powering the AI edge revolution with the world's lowest-power semiconductor solutions.

Built on our proprietary sub- and near-threshold technology, our chips deliver multi-fold improvements in energy efficiency without costly process scaling. Since 2010, we've shipped over 300 million units to customers building smarter wearables, medical devices, IoT products, and AI-powered edge applications.

Our cross-functional teams span design, research, development, production, marketing, sales, and operations across Austin, Hsinchu, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Singapore. We move fast, tackle hard problems, and create space for people to grow through complex, meaningful work that shapes the future of technology.

We're looking for self-motivated, creative problem-solvers who are eager to push technological limits and make a real impact in energy efficiency.

At Ambiq, we live by five values: Innovate. Collaborate. Focus. Learn. Achieve.

If that's you, join us — the intelligence everywhere revolution starts here.

Scope  

The Field Applications Engineer (FAE) will provide direct support to Global customers with a focus on customers in the assigned region.  Support development and debug of products using Ambiq ultra-low power solutions.  The candidate will assist in all aspects of customer design-in process and support customers HW and SW development through to full production. 

Candidate must quickly learn and support Ambiq products, read/write technical specifications/requirements, develop/refine hardware designs, apply system integration and lab skills, demonstrate strong problem-solving abilities, and work closely with customers and internal engineering to help develop and launch customers’ new products.

Will require traveling to Kansas City up to 50% of the time.  

Responsibilities 

• Work closely with Ambiq sales to support customer design-in activities starting from pre-sales activities
• Be an authority on low power design, and advise customers how to optimize power consumption at a system level
• Perform design reviews of customer schematics and PCB layouts
• Assist customers in use of Ambiq MCU software development tools
• Support bring up and debug of customer designs including software, hardware, and overall system
• Feedback customers’ inputs to marketing and engineering to shape the development of new ICs and reference designs
• Review customer software/hardware design requirements to understand current and future challenges