Senior Multimedia System Architect Job at Ambiq Micro Inc in Austin

Overview

Description

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
• 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

Responsibilities

Specific Responsibilities

Requirements

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

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 :

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