Systems Architect

AMBIQ MICRO SINGAPORE PRIVATE LTD; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Ambiq Micro Singapore Private Ltd seeks an experienced Systems Architect to guide the Singapore development team in defining low-power SoC architectures and subsystem interfaces. You will drive architectural direction, perform IP evaluation, and ensure alignment with product requirements across hardware and software teams.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, modeling, and post-silicon support to deliver edge AI capable, energy-efficient devices.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years IP and MCU development or similar architecture and design experience.
• Experience delivering low-power architectures for wearable/IoT/mobile products.
• BS in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Computer Science; MS/PhD preferred.
• Experience creating architectural specifications for SoC or similar complex hardware.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Architect specifications, including flow diagrams, power/performance models, and pseudocode.
• Interact with customers to align on key features and product positioning.
• Support use case and test case development.
• Provide integration specs for system interfaces and power management requirements.
• Collaborate with FPGA team to bring up critical subsystems and interfaces.
• Work with software architecture to define data/control flows, APIs, and HALs across SoC subsystems.
• Coordinate with physical design team to ensure robust/optimal implementation.
• Assist design team in debugging RTL and gate-level simulations.

Skills

IP/MCU development

System architecture

Low-power design

System-level thinking

Communication skills

Education

BS in EE/CE/CS

MS or PhD (preferred)

Tools

RTL

Gate-level simulation

Job description

Ambiq'smission is to enable intelligence everywhere by delivering the lowest power semiconductor solutions.Ambiqis a pioneer and a leading provider of ultra-low-power semiconductor solutions based on our proprietary and patented sub- and near-threshold technologies. Withthe increasingpower requirements of artificial intelligence (AI) computing, our customersare relyingon 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. Webegan in 2010 by addressing the power consumption challenges of battery-powered devices at the edge, where theywere mostpronounced. As of the beginning of 2025,we'veshipped more than280+million units worldwide.

Our innovative and fast-moving teams of design, research, development, production, marketing, sales, and operations are spread across several continents, including the US (Austin), Taiwan (Hsinchu), China (Shanghai andShenzhen), and Singapore. We value relentless technology innovation, a deep commitment to customer success, collaborative problem-solving, and an enthusiastic pursuit of energy efficiency. We embrace candidates who also share these same values. The successful candidate must be self-motivated, creative, and comfortable learning and driving excitingnew technologies. We encourage and nurture an environmentthat fosters growth and opportunities to work on complex, meaningful, and challenging projects, creating a lastingimpactand shapingthe future of technology. Join us on our quest forenablingbillions of intelligentdevices. The intelligenceeverywhererevolution starts here.

Scope

As the Systems Architect in Ambiqs Singapore development office, you will represent the Architecture function on-site and serve as the primary architectural guide for the Singapore development team. You will drive the architectural definition of Ambiqs low-power SoCs, with a specific focus on the subsystems and interfaces owned by the Singapore development team—spanning audio, imaging and display, high-speed and general-purpose interfaces, and the broader question of how the SoC connects to the external world.

This is a critical function at Ambiq that supports the delivery of the worlds lowest-power electronic devices, enabling ubiquitous AI at the edge. This is a cross-functional position working with software and hardware engineering teams, applications engineering, and field teams to ensure alignment with product requirements, logical and physical design constraints, power and performance targets, and overall system architecture. This role will encompasshigh-levelarchitecturalspecification, IP investigation and selection, power/performancemodeling, and maintaining alignment with Ambiqs overall architectural direction.

Specific Responsibilities

• Architecture specifications,including flow diagrams/sequences, power/performance models, and pseudocode
• Customer interactionis needed to ensure alignment on keyfeatures and competitive productpositioning
• Support for use case and test case development
• Integration specifications to support system interfaces and external power managementrequirements/interfaces
• Work with the FPGA team tobring upcritical subsystem andinterfacefeatures (for example, audio, imaging/display, and high-speed links)
• Work with software architecture to define data and control flows, APIs, and hardware abstraction layers across SoC subsystems
• Work with the physical design team to ensure robust/optimalimplementation
• Work with the design team to debug issues using RTL and gate-level simulation

Expectations for a successful candidate are as follows:

• Work withAmbiqsMarketing, Advanced Development, architecture, and engineering teams to drivedevelopment of newIPonAmbiqMicros technology and productroadmaps
• Analyze low-power technology and applications toidentifyopportunities for extendingAmbiqslow-power leadership
• Help define the technology roadmap, including external and internal IP assessment, definition, and integration
• Work with the rest of theAmbiqarchitecture team to gain a broad and deep understanding of theAmbiqarchitectural history and direction such that you can contribute the overall architecture and be the primary architectural guide for the Singapore development team.
• Work with the engineering teams to transition the architecture specification intoAmbiqMicros products
• Support post-silicon analysis and efficient delivery of SoC functionality to customers for mass production

Requirements

You should be comfortable with independent specification, analysis, and development from high-level concepts through design and validation, as well as collaborative work with software and hardware engineering teams. Deep knowledge of SoC subsystems and the interfaces that connect them to the external world—such as audio (e.g., I2S/PDM), imaging and display (e.g., MIPI CSI/DSI), and other high- and low-speed links (e.g., USB, SPI, I2C)— targeting wearable, IoT, and mobile systems is critical, along with proven experience bringing low-power architectures to market. A working knowledge of SoC architecture, fabric/interconnect technologies, power management, and advanced process nodes is preferred. You should also be comfortable working with complete system dataflows and modeling to guide hardware and software analysis and development.

Specific Experience

• Minimum of 8 yearsIPand MCU development orsimilar architecture anddesign experience targeting wearable/IoT and mobile products
• Experience developing novelsolutionsfrom idea to specification to design to post-siliconvalidation
• Working knowledge of low-power modern mobile consumer electronic systems and embeddedimaging or neural network processingrequired
• Experience in advanced process technologies is highly desirable
• BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science (must have)
• MS or PhD (preferred)
• Individual contributor role, but some management/team lead experience is nice-to-have
• Must have experience creating architectural specifications for System-on-Chip or similar complexhardware devices
• Must communicate well (verbal and written)
• Experience architecting how an SoC connects to the external world—for example, audio, imaging/display, and high- and low-speed interfaces
• Strong systems-level thinking, with the ability to reason across hardware and software boundaries and to own trade-offs spanning multiple subsystems
• Able to build consensus and drive architectural alignment across geographically distributed teams