Senior Director: Ultra-Low-Power AI SoC Architecture

Ambiq Micro, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Ambiq seeks a Senior Director of SOC System Architecture to shape the next generation of ultra-low-power AI SoCs for wearables and intelligent edge devices. You will drive architecture from concept through production, collaborating with Architecture, Hardware, Software, Marketing, and customer teams to deliver significant power and performance gains while extending battery life.

In this senior leadership role, you will define system-level tradeoffs, guide IP selection, and mentor engineers,

Qualifications

• 15+ years of SoC or related architecture experience.
• Experience delivering complex SoCs from concept to silicon.
• Strong understanding of low-power embedded systems for wearables/IoT.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture definition for Ambiq’s next-generation ultra-low-power AI SoCs from concept through production.
• Define system architecture across processors, memory, interconnect, clocking, power management, and hardware accelerators.
• Drive power, performance, area, and system-level tradeoffs for highly constrained embedded devices.
• Develop architecture and microarchitecture specifications, system dataflows, and power/performance models.
• Make key hardware/software partitioning decisions in partnership with software and systems teams.
• Evaluate internal and third-party IP, including AI/ML accelerators, and influence Ambiq’s long-term technology roadmap.
• Partner with design, verification, FPGA, physical design, and software teams to translate architecture into working silicon.
• Work with customers and product teams to understand critical use cases and translate them into future SoC capabilities.
• Support pre-silicon development, silicon bring-up, post-silicon analysis, and production readiness.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship across Ambiq’s architecture and engineering organization.

Skills

SoC architecture

low-power embedded systems

cross-functional leadership

communication skills

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering/CS

Job description

Ambiq seeks a Senior Director of SOC System Architecture to shape the next generation of ultra-low-power AI SoCs for wearables and intelligent edge devices. You will drive architecture from concept through production, collaborating with Architecture, Hardware, Software, Marketing, and customer teams to deliver significant power and performance gains while extending battery life.

In this senior leadership role, you will define system-level tradeoffs, guide IP selection, and mentor engineers,