Field Application Engineer - Central US

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Ambiq sales to support customer design-in activities starting from pre-sales activities
• Be an authority on low power design, and advise customers how to optimize power consumption at a system level
• Perform design reviews of customer schematics and PCB layouts
• Assist customers in use of Ambiq MCU software development tools
• Support bring up and debug of customer designs including software, hardware, and overall system
• Feedback customers’ inputs to marketing and engineering to shape the development of new ICs and reference designs
• Review customer software/hardware design requirements to understand current and future challenges
• Evangelize emerging technology and train/enable the sales team

Candidate Qualifications

• Ideal candidates will be engineers with experience developing software and hardware in embedded systems
• The candidate should have experience visiting customers and supporting them, and be comfortable presenting and discussing complex technical topics
• The ideal candidate will have experience with energy-constrained, battery-powered products and will have expertise in leading low-power microcontrollers, DSPs, radios, and other peripherals from industry leaders
• Knowledge of wearable and hearable product designs is desirable
• Solid electrical engineering, embedded software/firmware development (C Programming Language), digital & analog circuit fundamentals, and lab skills are a must
• Strong communication and teamwork skills are required
• Experience with wireless standards such as Bluetooth, WLAN, or ZigBee will be a plus, and application experience with ARM-based microcontrollers is strongly desired

Qualifications

• 8+ years’ experience in a Field Applications Engineering role in the semiconductor industry
• Extensive experience visiting, presenting to, and working with customers
• Experience with embedded 32-bit MCU software and hardware is required
• Experience with Cortex-M ARM-based microcontrollers is highly desirable
• Experience with Zephyr RTOS, particularly configuring and debugging BLE-enabled embedded MCU applications, is highly preferred
• Experience debugging common embedded MCU HW and SW issues
• Experience supporting and designing with low-power radios (BLE, BT Classic, 802.15.4) is desirable
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (or related field) required; candidates without a degree must have a minimum of 10+ years of directly related professional experience