ambiqmicroinc

Sr. Staff Embedded Software Engineer - Security

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At a Glance

Location
Austin, Texas, United States
Experience
10+ years
Posted
2026-03-09T16:59:31-04:00

Key Requirements

Required Skills

BashCI/CDExcelGitPython

Domain Knowledge

  • Embedded Systems
  • Energy
  • IoT

Requirements

BS/MS (EE, CE, or CS) with 10+ years of embedded projects utilizing both bare metal and RTOS systems/real-time environments.

3+ years of team management experience preferred

Expert-level proficiency in C, with C++ and object-oriented extensions.

Embedded Expertise: Strong knowledge of ARM architectures, RTOS, and low-level drivers (I2C, SPI, UART).

Security Expertise: Experience with Secure Boot, PKI, encryption (AES, RSA, ECC), and embedded security (TrustZone, CryptoCell).

Experience: Bachelor’s or Master's in CS/EE with 5+ years of relevant embedded security experience.

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership within the MCU Software team. Lead the technical planning, work assignments, and implementation for the new products and new features to be implemented by the MCU software team.

As the team scales, there's a potential path to managing a small to mid-size team. The candidate is someone who's excited to grow into a player-coach role over time.

Work with the teams, e.g., Design, Architecture, Verification, and Applications, to define and implement new security features from design to production.

Participate in testing and verification of pre-silicon (via FPGA emulation), and post-silicon (first Silicon), and debug of issues found, focusing on Secure Bootrom and Bootloader and the hardware features supporting them.

Integration and Testing of runtime cryptographic operations utilizing the embedded hardware accelerators.

Work closely with the SQA and System Test team to help define and implement test cases for security deliverables to ensure full coverage.