Senior Radio Software Engineer

Company Overview

Ambiq's mission is to develop the lowest-power semiconductor solutions to enable intelligent devices everywhere by creating 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 radio-enabled version of our Apollo family devices, developing wireless software solutions through the entire product lifecycle (specification, design, implementation, and unit test).

This role will work with cross-functional teams to integrate and debug wireless components on the company’s platforms. You will 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 be good at analyzing RF and firmware issues using an 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 the 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 field engineering team in customer development issue support.
• Produce unit, functional, integration, and interoperability tests, including automating tests when advantageous.
• Work with Product Planning and Architecture Teams 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.

• 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 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, etc.
• Experience with other short-range wireless technologies including Zigbee or Thread are a plus.
• Strong communication skills; excellent technical communication with peers.

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.