Applications Software 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  

As the Staff Applications Software Engineer  at Ambiq, you will be responsible for supporting Ambiq’s Apollo and Atomiq families of SoCs. 

This role will work with our hardware and software development teams, field engineering team, and customers to develop software, including example applications for Ambiq and customer evaluation hardware, device drivers, HAL updates, and Zephyr enablement. In addition, the Software Engineer will debug device level software issues, support field engineering with customer issues, and help create customer-facing documentation such as application notes and software design guidelines.  

The successful candidate should have a strong understanding of embedded development on Cortex-M MCUs, bare-metal and real-time operating systems, and be familiar with debugging the same.  They must possess strong written and oral communication skills.  

The person in this role will be responsible for supporting Ambiq’s field engineering team and customers, coordinating with the global team to make improvements and fix customer issues, and extending Ambiq's offerings with new software examples, application notes, and software design guidelines.

Responsibilities 

• Design, debug, porting, and analysis of embedded microcontroller software drivers, algorithms, application code, board support packages, automated scripts, and design test cases to provide the required functionality to end customers.