MCU Systems Architect

As MCU Systems Architect in Ambiq's Singapore office, you'll represent the Architecture function on-site, serving as the primary architectural guide for the Singapore team. You'll drive architectural definition of Ambiq's low-power SoCs, focusing on the subsystems your team owns — audio, imaging/display, and high-speed/general-purpose interfaces — and how the SoC connects to the external world.

This cross-functional role supports Ambiq's mission of delivering the world's lowest-power electronic devices for ubiquitous edge AI. You'll work with software and hardware engineering, applications engineering, and field teams to align on product requirements, design constraints, power/performance targets, and system architecture — covering high-level specification, IP investigation and selection, power/performance modeling, and alignment with Ambiq's broader architectural direction.

Responsibilities

• Write architecture specs: flow diagrams/sequences, power/performance models, pseudocode, and system/external power-management interface specs
• Engage customers to align on key features and competitive positioning
• Support use case and test case development
• Work with the FPGA team on subsystem/interface bring-up (audio, imaging/display, high-speed links)
• Partner with software architecture on data/control flows, APIs, and hardware abstraction layers
• Partner with physical design for robust, optimal implementation
• Debug issues with the design team using RTL and gate-level simulation
• Support post-silicon analysis and delivery of SoC functionality for mass production

Expectations

• Partner with Marketing, Advanced Development, and engineering to drive new IP on Ambiq's technology/product roadmaps
• Analyze low-power technology and applications to extend Ambiq's leadership in the space
• Help define the technology roadmap, including IP assessment and integration
• Build broad, deep knowledge of Ambiq's architectural history/direction to serve as the Singapore team's primary architectural guide
• Help transition specifications into shipping products

Requirements

• 8+ years of IP/MCU development or similar architecture and design experience for wearable/IoT and mobile products
• Comfortable working independently — from high-level concept through design and validation — as well as collaboratively across hardware/software teams
• Deep knowledge of SoC subsystems and external interfaces: audio (I2S/PDM), imaging/display (MIPI CSI/DSI), and high-/low-speed links (USB, SPI, I2C)
• Proven track record bringing low-power architectures to market, ideally including embedded imaging or neural network processing
• Working knowledge of SoC architecture, fabric/interconnect, power management, and advanced process nodes preferred
• Experience with complete system dataflows and modeling to guide hardware/software development
• Strong systems-level thinking; able to own trade-offs across hardware/software boundaries and multiple subsystems
• Able to build consensus and drive alignment across geographically distributed teams
• Strong written and verbal communication with influencing skills
• BS in EE, CE, or CS required; MS/PhD preferred
• Individual contributor role; team lead experience a plus
• Candidate with the ability to work with time zone overlaps as many team members are located in the US.