Senior SoC Power & Performance Architect, Low-Power AI Edge

Ambiq-Micro,-Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Ambiq Micro, Inc. in Austin, Texas is seeking a Sr. Staff Power & Performance Architect to shape the architecture of power-efficient SoCs. You will drive power budgets, analysis, modeling, and debug from early architecture through silicon correlation.

You will partner with hardware, software, physical design, and customers, delivering architecture guidance for power management, clocking, fabric, and flow sequencing, while building automation and data-driven insights.

Qualifications

• BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, CS, or related field.
• 7+ years of architecture experience in low-power SoC/embedded environments.
• Hands‑on ownership of power and/or performance analysis, budgeting, and debugging.
• Experience with Cadence Genus or equivalent power analysis tooling.
• Experience with power‑aware simulation flows.
• Strong Python and/or TCL scripting for modeling/automation.
• Ability to write architecture and microarchitecture specifications.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work across hardware, software, physical design, validation, applications, field, marketing, and sales teams.
• Experience with collaboration tools such as Confluence, SharePoint, JIRA, and Git.

Responsibilities

• Execute power and performance analysis across pre-silicon modeling, RTL power analysis, simulations, and post-silicon correlation.
• Create and maintain SoC, subsystem, and use-case-level power budgets.
• Lead variance analysis against power/performance targets and surface risks early.
• Lead architectural debug of power anomalies in simulation, emulation, or silicon.
• Trace issues from waveform to RTL to architectural intent to root cause.
• Develop/automat power modeling infrastructure, reporting flows, dashboards, and tooling.
• Characterize power states, transitions, leakage/dynamic splits, Vmin, retention and corner behavior on silicon.
• Contribute architecture specs for power management, clocking/reset, fabric, and software/hardware interfaces.
• Translate process-node tradeoffs into architectural recommendations.

Skills

Power & performance analysis

Python scripting

Cadence Genus

Power-aware simulation

Architecture specifications

Collaborative cross-team work

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering / related field

MS/PhD preferred

Tools

Cadence Joules

Synopsys PrimePower

Siemens PowerPro

Confluence/SharePoint/JIRA/Git

Job description

Ambiq Micro, Inc. in Austin, Texas is seeking a Sr. Staff Power & Performance Architect to shape the architecture of power-efficient SoCs. You will drive power budgets, analysis, modeling, and debug from early architecture through silicon correlation.

You will partner with hardware, software, physical design, and customers, delivering architecture guidance for power management, clocking, fabric, and flow sequencing, while building automation and data-driven insights.