Description: Company Overview
Ambiq's mission is to develop the lowest-power semiconductor solutions to enable intelligent devices everywhere by developing the lowest-power semiconductor solutions to drive a more energy-efficient, sustainable, and data-driven world. 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 (So C) solutions. Ambiq has shipped more than 250 million units by 2024. For more information, visit www.ambiq.com.
Our innovative and fast-moving teams of research, development, production, marketing, sales, and operations are spread across several continents, including the US (Austin and San Jose), Taiwan (Hsinchu), China (Shenzhen and Shanghai), Japan (Tokyo), and Singapore. We value continued technology innovation, fanatical attention to customer needs, collaborative decision-making, and enthusiasm for energy efficiency. We embrace candidates who also share these same values. The successful candidate must be self-motivated, creative, and comfortable learning and driving exciting new technologies. We encourage and nurture an environment for growth and opportunities to work on complex, engaging, and challenging projects that will create a lasting impact. Join us on our quest for 100 billion devices. The endpoint intelligence revolution starts here.


Scope
The Validation Manager in Taiwan provides technical leadership and guidance, creates and tracks project schedules, hires high-quality team members, contributes to validation software and hardware development, and manages the Ambiq validation team and resources in Hsinchu, Taiwan. The validation team is responsible for designing, developing, and operating system hardware and software to validate, characterize, and automate the debugging of Ambiq Micro MCU products and associated system components. This includes creating and integrating software tools for custom validation hardware, power profiling, device-specific characterization, MCU control and monitoring, and data collection and analysis.
The Validation Manager plays a crucial role in ensuring product validation and device characterization. This process is essential to ensure the product meets design targets and will operate as intended in the end customer system under specified operating conditions. The validation team collaborates with the software, systems, applications, and design teams to develop validation plans, provide product testability and characterization inputs, and determine system, product, and block-level testing requirements. The team works closely with the production test team on production test program correlation, characterization testing, and data collection for product electrical specification limits. It is responsible for post-silicon validation testing.
Responsibilities

• Manage the validation team in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and hire high-quality team members
• Provide technical leadership/guidance to the team. Create and track validation team activities
  and project schedules
• Lead test program correlation activities for the validation team
• Lead the validation team to develop functional tests needed for the production test program
• Create MCU silicon validation algorithms and functional tests using TCL (Tool Command Language)
  scripts, Shell scripts, and embedded C/C++ software
• Design, develop, and test embedded MCU firmware used for silicon validation and system-level
  testing
• Work closely with the Austin validation, digital design, and verification teams to develop
  validation plans
• Analysis and debugging of customer RMA parts
• Define and develop tools for validation test data logging, analysis, and presentation
• Develop custom automated software functions and/or applications to assist in the design, testing, and
  applications teams with debugging of MCU hardware issues
  

Requirements:

• BS/MS in EE with 7+ years of experience developing software to automate MCU silicon validation and/or related systems
  3+ years of experience managing and/or leading a small team of 4-7 engineers
• Experience architecting and developing software for automation systems that include a host PC,
  lab electrical equipment, and custom MCU silicon validation board hardware
• Experience developing software algorithms and writing TCL, Perl and/or Python test scripts, and
  embedded MCU code in C/C++
• Experience working with common embedded software IDEs (Keil, IAR, Eclipse, or ARM) to assist
  with C/C++ and TCL software development and debug
• Experience working hands-on in the lab with digital and analog electrical test equipment, such as
  oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and pico-ammeter measurement equipment.
• Experience developing and using data logging, analysis, and report-generation tools
  Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to solve complex system-level issues related to board
  level hardware and software integration, analog and digital hardware interaction, and power
  management
• Experience with testing and debug of microcontroller digital, analog, and power-related problems
• Experience working with ARM-based microcontrollers with a high level of analog and
  digital integration. This includes power management, ADCs, timers, I2C, SPI, I2S, PDM, UART, and
  other hi-h speed peripheral interfaces.
• Knowledge of ultra-low current measurement techniques is desirable