Staff Engineer - Embedded Software, Imaging

<p><strong>Company Overview</strong></p>

<p><strong>Ambiq</strong>&nbsp;is on a mission to enable intelligence everywhere — powering the AI edge revolution with the world's lowest-power semiconductor solutions.</p>

<p>Built on our proprietary sub- and near-threshold technology, our chips deliver multi-fold improvements in energy efficiency without costly process scaling. Since 2010, we've shipped over 300 million units to customers building smarter wearables, medical devices, IoT products, and AI-powered edge applications.</p>

<p>Our cross-functional teams span design, research, development, production, marketing, sales, and operations across Austin, Hsinchu, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Singapore. We move fast, tackle hard problems, and create space for people to grow through complex, meaningful work that shapes the future of technology.</p>

<p>We're looking for self-motivated, creative problem-solvers who are eager to push technological limits and make a real impact in energy efficiency.</p>

<p>At Ambiq, we live by five values:&nbsp;<strong>Innovate. Collaborate. Focus. Learn. Achieve.</strong></p>

<p>If that's you, join us — the intelligence everywhere revolution starts here.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Scope</strong>&nbsp;</p>

<p>As a Staff Embedded Software Engineer,&nbsp;Imaging at Ambiq, you will&nbsp;lead&nbsp;the architecture, development, integration, and validation of the imaging subsystem software for Ambiq SoCs. You will&nbsp;be responsible for&nbsp;evaluating, porting, and&nbsp;optimizing&nbsp;firmware and device drivers for image processing, video, and camera interfaces within the&nbsp;AmbiqSuite&nbsp;SDK across silicon and emulation platforms.&nbsp;</p>

<p>You will also evaluate and integrate customer-facing tools for image sensor bring-up, calibration, and characterization, enabling customers to successfully deploy camera-based solutions on Ambiq devices.&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;Working within&nbsp;Ambiq's&nbsp;global MCU software organization, you will collaborate closely with the SoC architecture, silicon design,&nbsp;and&nbsp;verification&nbsp;engineering teams throughout the product lifecycle—from pre-silicon FPGA validation through post-silicon bring-up, optimization, and customer enablement.&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;The ideal candidate is a&nbsp;seasoned&nbsp;hands-on technical&nbsp;contributor&nbsp;who learns quickly, thrives in a lab environment, enjoys solving challenging hardware/software integration problems, and continuously&nbsp;seeks&nbsp;to improve both products and engineering processes.&nbsp;</p>

<p><strong>Responsibilities</strong>&nbsp;</p>

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<li>Lead&nbsp;the&nbsp;design,&nbsp;implementation,&nbsp;and&nbsp;maintenance&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;embedded&nbsp;imaging&nbsp;subsystem&nbsp;software&nbsp;for&nbsp;ARM&nbsp;Cortex-M–based&nbsp;platforms.&nbsp;</li>

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<li>Evaluate,&nbsp;port,&nbsp;optimize,&nbsp;or&nbsp;develop&nbsp;firmware&nbsp;and&nbsp;device&nbsp;drivers&nbsp;for&nbsp;image&nbsp;processing,&nbsp;video,&nbsp;and&nbsp;camera&nbsp;interface&nbsp;hardware.&nbsp;</li>

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<li>Design&nbsp;and&nbsp;implement&nbsp;firmware&nbsp;interfaces&nbsp;for&nbsp;image&nbsp;acquisition,&nbsp;processing,&nbsp;and&nbsp;streaming&nbsp;on&nbsp;resource-constrained&nbsp;embedded&nbsp;systems.&nbsp;</li>

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<li>Integrate&nbsp;camera&nbsp;sensors&nbsp;using&nbsp;MIPI CSI-2&nbsp;interfaces&nbsp;and&nbsp;support&nbsp;end-to-end&nbsp;camera&nbsp;bring-up,&nbsp;validation,&nbsp;and&nbsp;performance&nbsp;optimization.&nbsp;</li>

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<li>Enable image sensor integration by evaluating and supporting calibration, characterization, and image quality tuning tools.&nbsp;</li>

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<li>Lead&nbsp;imaging&nbsp;subsystem&nbsp;software&nbsp;activities&nbsp;during&nbsp;pre-silicon&nbsp;FPGA&nbsp;verification&nbsp;and&nbsp;post-silicon&nbsp;bring-up,&nbsp;validation,&nbsp;debugging,&nbsp;and&nbsp;performance&nbsp;tuning.&nbsp;</li>

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<li>Optimize&nbsp;imaging&nbsp;and&nbsp;video&nbsp;processing&nbsp;pipelines&nbsp;for&nbsp;real-time&nbsp;performance,&nbsp;memory&nbsp;utilization,&nbsp;and&nbsp;power&nbsp;efficiency.&nbsp;</li>

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<li>Support&nbsp;design&nbsp;verification,&nbsp;field&nbsp;applications&nbsp;engineers,&nbsp;and&nbsp;strategic&nbsp;customers&nbsp;during&nbsp;product&nbsp;development&nbsp;and&nbsp;deployment.&nbsp;</li>

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<li>Provide technical subject-matter expertise on&nbsp;imaging&nbsp;subsystem&nbsp;software&nbsp;architecture&nbsp;and&nbsp;implementation.&nbsp;</li>

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<p><strong>Qualifications</strong>&nbsp;</p>

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<li>M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field with 6+ years of embedded software experience, or B.S. with 8+ years of experience.&nbsp;</li>

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