Join Ambiq as a Field Application Engineer to support customers in developing low-power semiconductor solutions.
Posted by employer 4 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 week ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
The Field Application Engineer at Ambiq plays a crucial role in supporting global customers by assisting with the development and debugging of ultra-low power semiconductor solutions. This position requires expertise in embedded systems, particularly with low-power microcontrollers and software development, as well as strong problem-solving and communication skills. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in the semiconductor industry and a background in customer-facing roles, making them well-suited for this dynamic and collaborative environment. Ambiq emphasizes innovation and customer focus, making this role pivotal in shaping the future of energy-efficient technology.
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- Listed 9 days ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Ambiq's career page.
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Quick facts
- Is the Field Application Engineer - Central US role remote?
- No — this is an on-site role in Remote Employee.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 8 years of relevant experience for this Field Application Engineer - Central US role.
- Where is the role based?
- Ambiq is hiring for this position in Remote Employee.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: ARM, Bluetooth, C++, Embedded Systems, WLAN, Zephyr RTOS.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Ambiq targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Field Application Engineer - Central US role at Ambiq.
From the original posting
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
- Evangelize emerging technology and train/enable the sales team
Qualifications
Ideal candidates will be engineers with experience developing software and hardware in embedded systems. The candidate should have experience visiting customers and supporting them, and be comfortable presenting and discussing complex technical topics. The ideal candidate will have experience with energy-constrained, battery-powered products and will have expertise in leading low-power microcontrollers, DSPs, radios, and other peripherals from industry leaders. Knowledge of wearable and hearable product designs is desirable. Solid electrical engineering, embedded software/firmware development (C Programming Language), digital & analog circuit fundamentals, and lab skills are a must. Strong communication and teamwork skills are required. Experience with wireless standards such as Bluetooth, WLAN, or ZigBee will be a plus, and application experience with ARM-based microcontrollers is strongly desired.
Looking for folks who have had specific experience:
- 8+ years’ experience in a Field Applications Engineering role in the semiconductor industry
- Extensive experience visiting, presenting to, and working with customers
- Experience with embedded 32-bit MCU software and hardware is required
- Experience with Cortex-M ARM-based microcontrollers is highly desirable
- Experience with Zephyr RTOS, particularly configuring and debugging BLE-enabled embedded MCU applications, is highly preferred.
- Experience debugging common embedded MCU HW and SW issues
- Experience supporting and designing with low-power radios (BLE, BT Classic, 802.15.4) is desirable
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (or related field) required; candidates without a degree must have a minimum of 10+ years of directly related professional experience.
Must be currently authorized to work in the United States for any employer. We do not sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas (now or in the future) for this role.
Key Personal and Professional Attributes
Ambiq management is building a company that values ongoing technology innovation, a fanatical focus on customer needs, collaborative decision-making, and, above all, enthusiasm for energy efficiency. The incoming FAE should embrace these same values. The FAE must also be creative and comfortable supporting entirely new chip products for new classes of battery-powered devices. The ideal FAE candidate will be hungry for success and will be ready to adapt and grow rapidly with Ambiq in the coming years.