Ambiq Micro

Job Type

Full-time

Description

Company Overview

Ambiq's mission is to develop the lowest-power semiconductor solutions to enable intelligent devices everywhere by developing the lowest-power semiconductor solutions to drive a more energy-efficient, sustainable, and data-driven world. Ambiq has helped leading manufacturers worldwide develop products that last weeks on a single charge (rather than days), while delivering a maximum feature set in compact industrial designs. Ambiq's goal is to take Artificial Intelligence (AI) where it has never gone before in mobile and portable devices, using Ambiq's advanced ultra-low power system on chip (SoC) solutions. Ambiq has shipped more than 250 million units by 2024. For more information, visit www.ambiq.com.

Our innovative and fast-moving teams of research, development, production, marketing, sales, and operations are spread across several continents, including the US (Austin and San Jose), Taiwan (Hsinchu), China (Shenzhen and Shanghai), Japan (Tokyo), and Singapore. We value continued technology innovation, fanatical attention to customer needs, collaborative decision-making, and enthusiasm for energy efficiency. We embrace candidates who also share these same values. The successful candidate must be self-motivated, creative, and comfortable learning and driving exciting new technologies. We encourage and nurture an environment for growth and opportunities to work on complex, engaging, and challenging projects that will create a lasting impact. Join us on our quest for 100 billion devices. The endpoint intelligence revolution starts here.

Scope

As the Senior Radio software engineer at Ambiq, you will drive the wireless software development for the Apollo Blue family, develop wireless software solutions (implement specification, design software, and unit test).

This role will work with different cross functional teams to integrate and debug wireless components on the company’s platform. Perform code review, code optimization, refactoring, bug hunting, and bug fixing.

The successful candidate must be intimately familiar with Bluetooth technology, have extensive experience in developing deeply embedded applications for wireless silicon and good at analyzing RF, firmware issues using air sniffer, logic analyzer, etc.

The person in this role will be responsible for scoping software development work, task delegation, identifying resource/technical gaps, and taking initiative to tackle challenging technical issues by getting support from across teams. Write technical documents, including white papers, architecture diagrams, module and API description

Responsibilities

• Develop wireless solution, and implement new features development.
• Perform code review, code optimization, refactoring, bug hunting, and bug fixing.
• Assist FAE team in customer development issue support.
• Produce unit, functional, integration and interoperability tests, including automating tests when advantageous.
• Work with Product Planning Team to understand system requirements.
• Work with validation and system test teams to triage issues and assist in communicating the status of open issues to management.

Requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years of experience with Bluetooth/BLE wireless technology, including Bluetooth Software debugging experience with Bluetooth sniffer tools and protocol analyzers.
• Experience with Bluetooth host (open or closed source) stacks and profiles and Bluetooth audio (e.g. HFP, A2DP, LE audio) is highly desired.
• Familiar with engineering best practices: git version control, unit-tests, and continuous integration.
• Fluent in low level software debugging skills using GDB, emulators, JTAG, and more.
• Expert knowledge on performance and power optimization.
• Experience with Zephyr.· Peripheral protocols: I2C, I2S, MSPI, UART, PDM, TDM, etc.
• Experience with other short-range wireless technologies including Zigbee or Thread are a plus.
• Strong communication skills; excellent technical communication with peers.
• Key Personal and Professional Attributes:

What You'll Need:

Ambiq is a company that values continued technology innovation, fanatical attention to customer needs, collaborative decision-making, and, above all, enthusiasm for energy efficiency. The incoming candidate should embrace these same values. The successful candidate must be self-motivated, creative, and comfortable learning exciting new technologies. This is an opportunity for growth and work on complex, interesting, and challenging projects. Most importantly, the successful candidate will be able to live the Ambiq Shared Values:· Innovate: We tenaciously find ways to break down the barriers to possible solutions· Collaborate: We proactively communicate and encourage each other to be better.· Focus: We keep the voice of the customer at the center of everything we do.· Learn: We strive for continuous improvement and are always curious.· Achieve: We execute on quality and follow through on our commitments.