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Company Overview
Ambiq is on a mission to enable intelligence everywhere — powering the AI edge revolution with the world's lowest-power semiconductor solutions.
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.
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.
We're looking for self-motivated creative problem-solvers who are eager to push technological limits and make a real impact in energy efficiency.
At Ambiq we live by five values: Innovate. Collaborate. Focus. Learn. Achieve.
If that's you join us — the intelligence everywhere revolution starts here.
Artificial intelligence is transforming how organizations innovate collaborate and execute. At Ambiq we believe the greatest opportunity isn’t simply adopting AI tools. It’s using AI to fundamentally improve how work gets done across the enterprise enabling our people to innovate faster make better decisions and create lasting competitive advantage. We’re creating a new leadership role to help make that vision a reality.
At Ambiq we’ve built our reputation by pushing the boundaries of ultra-low-power semiconductor technology and enabling intelligence at the edge. As AI reshapes the way engineering organizations operate we’re creating a new leadership role to help Ambiq become one of the industry’s most AI-enabled engineering organizations.
We’re looking for a Director of AI Enablement to lead that journey.
This is not an IT role.
This is not an AI engineering role.
This is a business transformation leadership role focused on applying AI to improve engineering productivity accelerate product development optimize business processes and increase organizational effectiveness across the company.
You’ll partner with leaders across Engineering Software & Solutions Sales Operations Marketing IT HR and other business functions to identify where AI can create measurable business value and help turn those opportunities into scalable sustainable improvements.
If you’re excited about helping an innovative semiconductor company compete above its weight class by fundamentally improving how work gets done we’d love to meet you.
What You’ll DoYou’ll work across the enterprise to:
- Identify high-value opportunities where AI can improve productivity and business performance
- Partner with business and technical leaders to redesign workflows and eliminate organizational friction
- Develop business cases and prioritize AI-enabled initiatives based on measurable business impact
- Lead pilots and enterprise-scale enablement efforts that drive adoption and deliver results
- Establish governance success metrics and executive dashboards that measure business value
- Build organizational capability through AI literacy change leadership and best practices
- Help create a culture of continuous improvement where AI becomes part of how Ambiq works every day
The Director of AI Enablement is not responsible for building AI products or selecting enterprise AI technologies.
Functional leaders will continue to own the evaluation selection implementation and ongoing management of the technologies that best support their organizations.
Instead this role partners with those experts to identify opportunities align initiatives accelerate adoption measure business outcomes and ensure AI investments translate into meaningful improvements in engineering productivity organizational effectiveness and competitive advantage.
One team builds AI into our products.
This role helps AI improve how we build those products.
Who You AreYou’re a business transformation leader who understands both technology and organizational change.
You enjoy solving complex business problems improving workflows and helping organizations work smarter.
You are equally comfortable discussing AI with engineers presenting business cases to executives and leading enterprise-wide change initiatives.
You have a track record of delivering measurable business outcomes through operational excellence digital transformation AI enablement or large-scale business transformation.
Most importantly you measure success by business impact not technology adoption.
Why Ambiq?As a smaller agile company Ambiq has a unique opportunity to move faster than larger competitors adopt new ways of working more rapidly and create advantages that scale alone cannot provide.
This role offers the opportunity to build a new strategic capability from the ground up work directly with executive leadership influence every major function of the company and help shape how one of the industry’s leading semiconductor companies operates in the AI era.
If you’re looking for an opportunity to leave a lasting mark on both an organization and an industry we’d love to talk with you.
**Must be currently authorized to work in the United States for any employer. We do not sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role.
Skills Required
- Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship
- Track record delivering measurable business outcomes through operational excellence digital transformation AI enablement or large-scale business transformation
- Experience identifying high-value AI opportunities and developing business cases prioritized by measurable impact
- Experience leading pilots and enterprise-scale enablement efforts that drive adoption and deliver results
- Experience partnering with business and technical leaders to redesign workflows and remove organizational friction
- Experience establishing governance success metrics and executive dashboards to measure business value
- Experience building organizational capability through AI literacy change leadership and best practices
Ambiq Compensation & Benefits Highlights
- Healthcare Strength—Medical dental and vision coverage are part of the core package and the health insurance is portrayed positively across the provided information. This indicates dependable core healthcare support.
- Leave & Time Off Breadth—Paid time off and an expanded holiday schedule including a year‑end closure are highlighted. References to PTO accrual and carryover reinforce strong time‑off design.
- Parental & Family Support—Parental leave and family medical leave are explicitly included. This signals structured support for caregiving needs.
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What We Do
Ambiq® enables intelligence (AI and beyond) everywhere by delivering the lowest-power semiconductor solutions for battery-powered edge devices. As a pioneer in ultra-low power SoCs Ambiq empowers wearables IoT smart home healthcare and industrial products with always-on energy-efficient intelligence. Backed by our SPOT® technology and global innovation leadership Ambiq is shaping the future of edge AI.
Why Work With Us
Direct influence on silicon architectureSmaller high-impact teamsHardware/software co-design in real timeFaster technical decision cyclesVisible ownership at Staff & Director levelAustin-based collaboration culture
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Building silicon and embedded AI systems requires tight collaboration across firmware hardware validation and architecture teams.We believe the hardest engineering problems are solved through direct daily collaboration.
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