Senior Director - System Architecture

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Company Overview</strong></span></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></div><p><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}"><u><strong>This role will be on-site 5 days a week in NW Austin.</strong></u></span></p> <p><strong>Scope</strong></p> <p>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. Areas of interest include: low-power embedded microprocessor and microcontroller-based System on Chip (SoC), interconnect technologies, memory technologies and topologies, clocking, power management, as well as preferred familiarity with 2D and 3D graphics accelerators and display controller technologies, video and image processing, and Neural Network processors/accelerators/NPUs. The candidate will have sufficient experience with system-level design, hardware/software partitioning, power, and performance modeling/tradeoffs.</p> <p>Expectations for a successful candidate are as follows:</p> <ul> <li>Work with Ambiq’s Marketing, Advanced Development, architecture, and engineering teams to drive development of new ultra-