Sr. Staff Engineer - Digital Design Verification

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Sr. Staff Engineer - Digital Design Verification

Sr. Staff Engineer - Digital Design Verification

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Austin TX USA
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Hardware • Internet of Things • Software • Wearables • Semiconductor
Enabling all battery-powered mobile and portable IoT endpoint devices to be intelligent and energy-efficient.
The Role
Responsible for verifying digital and mixed-signal designs including systems-on-chip developing test plans automating testing and collaborating with various teams to ensure design verification for low-power applications.
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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 290 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.


Responsibilities

You will be responsible for verifying complex digital designs including Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) with multiple CPUs digital signal processors security hardware interconnects and peripheral logic supporting IoT and edge-compute applications.

The ideal candidate is a self-starter who takes full ownership of verification efforts and consistently delivers high‑quality production‑ready silicon.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Own and execute end-to-end digital verification at block sub-system and full-chip (SoC) levels
  • Develop detailed verification plans aligned with architecture and design specifications
  • Perform SoC-level verification using full-chip simulation and regression environments
  • Architect and implement scalable reusable UVM-based testbenches using SystemVerilog
  • Develop comprehensive test scenarios stimulus monitors and checkers to achieve robust functional coverage
  • Drive constrained-random and directed testing including scoreboarding and self-checking mechanisms
  • Develop and maintain C/C++ based verification libraries and tests for SoC-level validation
  • Automate verification flows for regressions coverage collection and results reporting
  • Define track and close functional and code coverage goals
  • Utilize advanced debugging methodologies to isolate and resolve complex design and verification issues
  • Perform root-cause analysis and collaborate closely with design teams to drive fixes
  • Ensure verification quality meets or exceeds project schedule and industry standards

Experience with edge-based AI inference workloads is a plus.

Requirements
  • BSEE or MSEE with 8–12 years of hands-on digital design verification experience
  • Proven track record of multiple tape-outs with silicon functioning to specification
  • Strong experience in block-level sub-system and full-chip SoC verification
  • Ability to define and manage verification deliverables milestones and schedules
  • Proactively identify verification risks and implement mitigation strategies
  • Experience working with complex SoCs integrating multiple 3rd-party IPs and VIPs
  • Strong collaboration skills to work effectively with design architecture and software teams
  • Excellent communication skills for reporting status issues and progress to stakeholders
Technical Skills
  • Design Verification:
    • SystemVerilog UVM Verilog
    • Functional and code coverage methodologies
    • Constrained-random verification and scoreboarding
  • SoC & Software-Based Verification:
    • C/C++ based verification in SoC environments (required)
    • Experience with processor-based systems (ARM and/or RISC‑V preferred)
  • Architectures & Protocols:
    • ARM or RISC‑V processor-based SoCs
    • AMBA protocols (AXI AHB APB)
    • DMA flow control and standard serial interfaces
  • Scripting & Automation:
    • Python Perl Makefile
  • Low Power (Digital):
    • Experience verifying low-power digital architectures and features is highly desirable
Preferred Experience
  • Security IPs (Crypto OTP)
  • DSP and compute-heavy digital subsystems
  • High-performance or low-power SoC architectures
  • Edge AI / ML workload enablement

**Must be currently authorized to work in the United States for any employer. We do not sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas (now or in the future) for this role.

Skills Required

  • BSEE / MSEE
  • 8-12 years of experience in block sub-system and full-chip verification
  • Experience with ARM processor-based designs
  • C-based verification in an SoC environment
  • Strong understanding of low-power design verification

Ambiq Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Healthcare StrengthHealth coverage is characterized as strong with medical dental and vision included and plan quality described favorably. Additional supports such as FSA and related wellness-oriented perks are referenced reinforcing overall healthcare breadth.
  • Fair & Transparent CompensationPay is considered decent-to-good and roughly market-aligned overall with certain roles described as competitive within the market. Total rewards span base bonus and equity supporting a perception of balanced compensation.
  • Leave & Time Off BreadthPaid time off is part of the core package and generous parental leave is referenced by external profiles. Together these elements indicate a reasonably comprehensive time-off offering.

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The Company
Austin Texas
220 Employees
Year Founded: 2010

What We Do

Ambiq makes unprecedented energy-efficient SoCs and ultra-low power platform solutions that enable edge AI on billions of battery-powered devices. Our mission is to put intelligence everywhere by delivering the lowest-power semiconductor solutions on the planet. With SPOT® technology and the Apollo SoC family Ambiq empowers innovators to build smarter longer-lasting wearables IoT smart home healthcare and industrial devices.Ambiq has helped leading manufacturers worldwide develop products that last weeks on a single charge (rather than days) while delivering a maximum feature set in compact industrial designs. Ambiq's goal is to take Artificial Intelligence (AI) where it has never gone before in mobile and portable devices using Ambiq's advanced ultra-low power system on chip (SoC) solutions. Ambiq has shipped more than 200 million units as of March 2023. The next generation of AI will not depend on constant cloud connectivity.It will run directly on ultra-low-power silicon in wearables sensors and embedded systems.At Ambiq we design and ship production silicon that enables:Real-time inference on constrained devicesModels optimized to run in tens of KBExtreme power efficiency for battery-operated systemsDeep hardware/software co-designThis is not research. It’s deployed technology.

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

Ambiq Offices

OnSite Workspace

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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Austin Texas

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