Senior Director - System Architecture

Scope

The Sr Director of System Architecture will serve as the lead architect, developing next-generation ultra-low-power, AI-based SoC architectures for future Ambiq products. The candidate will own the development and coordination of new product architectures with the Marketing, Advanced Development, and Engineering teams. This position will report directly to the VP of Architecture.

Expectations for a successful candidate

• Work with Ambiq’s Marketing, Advanced Development, architecture, and engineering teams to drive development of new ultra-low power AI System on Chip (SoC) architectures on Ambiq Micro’s technology and product roadmaps
• Develop high-level specifications and drive power/performance modeling and analysis
• Analyze low-power interconnect, memory and hardware accelerator technologies and applications to identify opportunities for extending Ambiq’s low-power leadership
• Support the definition of Ambiq’s technology roadmap, including external and internal IP assessment, definition, and integration
• Work with the engineering teams to transition the architecture specification into Ambiq Micro’s products
• Work with systems, solutions, and software teams to ensure robust interfaces and support key product use cases
• Support post-silicon analysis and efficient delivery of Ambiq products to customers for mass production

Specific Responsibilities

• Architecture specifications, including flow diagrams/sequences, power/performance models and pseudocode
• Customer interaction as needed to ensure alignment on key features and competitive product positioning
• Microarchitecture specifications (as applicable) and support to enable software and hardware design
• Support for use case and test case development
• Integration specifications to support system interfaces and external power management requirements/interfaces
• Work with FPGA team to bring up critical SoC features
• Work with software architecture to define flows, APIs and hardware abstraction layers
• Work with physical design team to ensure robust/optimal implementation
• Work with design team to debug issues using RTL and gate level simulation

Education and Experience

• Minimum of 15 years of microprocessor/microcontroller-based System on Chip or similar architecture and design experience targeting wearable/IoT and mobile products
• Experience developing novel low-power architectures from idea to specification to design to post-silicon validation
• Working knowledge of low-power modern mobile consumer electronic systems required
• Experience in advanced process node technologies highly desirable
• BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science (must have)
• MS or PhD (strongly preferred)

Specific Experience

• Comfortable with independent specification, analysis, and development from high-level concepts through design and validation, as well as collaborative development with software and hardware engineering
• Deep knowledge of embedded systems and microprocessor/microcontroller-based AI System on Chip (SoC) specifically targeting wearable, IoT, and mobile systems
• Specific experience delivering low-power architectures to market
• Experience with wireless technologies and SoCs specifically Bluetooth, WiFi, NFC and GPS