What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Analog Design Engineer position at Ambiq?
Job Type
Full-time
Description
Company Overview
Ambiq's mission is to develop the lowest-power semiconductor solutions to enable intelligent devices everywhere by developing 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 Staff, Analog Design Engineer at Ambiq, you will drive the specification, architecture and design of key analog subsystems. This includes PMUs, clocking and data converters.
This role will work with closely with the Architecture team and RTL teams to create custom analog designs that meet and exceed customer needs. Designs will be in leading edge technologies, such as 22nm,12nm and beyond.
The successful candidate will be highly motivated team player who through collaboration with others will help everyone succeed.
The person in this role will be well rounded, having been through a number of design cycles. They will have design related experience, all the way from spec definition and whiteboarding phase, schematic design and layout supervision, through to validation and production test.
Responsibilities
- Chip level and block level spec definition
- Circuit architectural design and verification
- Transistor level analog IC circuit design and verification
- Directly conduct or closely supervise the analog circuit layout
- Conduct design reviews and resolve action items generated as a result of these reviews
- Attend design reviews to provide input and guidance to other designers
- Work with digital designers to interface with and verify analog circuit block
- Assist in prototype chip testing to validate analog circuit blocks
- Develop and implement a manufacturing test plan for analog circuit blocks; support efficient test program development
- Support marketing in product definition
- Support product engineering to meet manufacturing / production needs
- Support applications engineering to meet customer needs
Requirements
Qualifications
What You'll Need :
The successful candidate must be self-motivated, creative, and comfortable learning exciting new technologies. This is an opportunity for growth and work on complex, interesting, and challenging projects.
Most importantly, the successful candidate will be able to live the Ambiq Shared Values :