Company Overview

Ambiq's mission is to enable intelligence everywhere by delivering the lowest power semiconductor solutions.

Ambiq is a pioneer and a leading provider of ultra-low-power semiconductor solutions based on our proprietary

and patented sub- and near-threshold technologies. With increased power requirements of artificial intelligence

(AI) computing, our customers increasingly rely on our solutions to deliver AI to edge environments. Our hardware

and software innovations fundamentally deliver a multi-fold improvement in power consumption over traditional

semiconductor designs without expensive process geometry scaling. We started in 2010 addressing the needs of

battery-powered devices at the edge, where power consumption challenges were most profound. As of the

beginning of 2025, we’ve shipped more than 260 million units worldwide.

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

The Sr. Multimedia System Architect will be responsible for developing next-generation ultra-low power, high

performance graphics, display, imaging, and AI architectures for future Ambiq SoC products. The candidate will

work with the Marketing, Advanced Development, and Engineering teams to develop next-generation architecture

specifications and ensure delivery into Ambiq products. Areas of interest include: low-power embedded 2D and 3D

graphics accelerators and display controller technologies, video and image processing, and Neural Network

processors/accelerators/NPUs. The candidate will have sufficient experience with system-level design and

requirements on the multimedia architecture, hardware/software partitioning, power and performance

modeling/tradeoffs, and power management. This position will report directly to the VP of Architecture.

Expectations for a successful candidate are as follows:

• Work with Ambiq’s Marketing, Advanced Development, architecture, and engineering teams to drive

development of new ultra-low power multimedia architectures on Ambiq Micro’s technology and product

roadmaps

• Develop high-level specifications and drive power/performance modeling and analysis

• Analyze low-power multimedia technology and applications to identify opportunities for extending

Ambiq’s low-power leadership

• Define Ambiq’s multimedia and AI technology roadmap, including external and internal IP assessment,

definition, and integration

• Work with the engineering teams to transition the architecture specification into Ambiq Micro’s products

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• Work with systems, solutions, and software teams to ensure robust interfaces and support key product

use cases

• Support post-silicon analysis and efficient delivery of multimedia functionality to customers for mass

production

Specific Responsibilities

As the Sr Multimedia System Architect at Ambiq, you will drive the architecture definition of various aspects of

Ambiq’s low-power SoC’s with a specific focus on multimedia technologies, including graphics, display, video, imaging

and AI.

This is a critical function at Ambiq to support delivering the world’s lowest power electronic devices to enable

ubiquitous AI at the edge. This is a cross-functional position working with software and hardware engineering

teams, applications engineering, and field teams to ensure alignment to product requirements, logical and physical

design constraints, power and performance targets, and overall system architecture. This role will encompass high

level architecture specification, low-level microarchitecture, process node-dependent analysis, power/performance

modeling, analysis, and use case definition.

• Architecture specifications including flow diagrams/sequences, power/performance models, and pseudocode

• Customer interaction as needed to ensure alignment on key multimedia features and competitive product

positioning

• Microarchitecture specifications (as applicable) and support to enable software and hardware design

• Support for use case and test case development

• Integration specifications to support system interfaces and external power management

requirements/interfaces

• Work with FPGA team to bring up critical multimedia features

• Work with software architecture to define multimedia flows, APIs, and hardware abstraction layers

• Work with the physical design team to ensure robust/optimal implementation

• Work with the design team to debug issues using RTL and gate-level simulation

The candidate should be comfortable with independent specification, analysis, and development from high-level

concepts through design and validation, as well as collaborative development with software and hardware

engineering. A deep knowledge of graphics accelerators, graphics processing, display controllers and panel

interfaces, image signal processors, image sensors, or neural network accelerators specifically targeting wearable,

IoT and mobile systems are critical, along with specific experience delivering low-power architectures to market. A

working knowledge of SoC architecture, fabric/interconnect technologies, power management, and advanced

process nodes is preferred. The candidate should be comfortable with complete system dataflows and modeling to guide

hardware and software analysis and development.

Specific Experience

• Minimum of 8 years of graphics, display, video, imaging or neural networks or similar architecture and

design experience targeting wearable/IoT and mobile products

• Experience developing novel multimedia architectures from idea to specification to design to post-silicon

validation

• Working knowledge of low-power modern mobile consumer electronic systems and embedded graphics,

imaging or neural network processing required

• Experience in embedded display technologies and low-power interfaces required

• Experience in advanced process technologies is highly desirable

• BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science (must have)

• MS or PhD (preferred)

• Individual contributor role, but some management/team lead experience is nice-to-have

• Must have experience creating architectural specifications for System-on-Chip or similar complex

hardware devices

• Must communicate well (verbal and written)

What you need

We're seeking passionate technologists who thrive on breaking boundaries, solving complex challenges, and

driving transformative solutions.

At Ambiq, you'll collaborate with a dynamic team that values relentless innovation, customer-centric thinking, and

continuous learning. If you're a self-motivated, creative problem-solver eager to push technological limits and

make a meaningful impact in energy efficiency, this is your opportunity to grow, excel, and turn groundbreaking

ideas into reality.

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