Ambarella

Machine Vision & 3D Cameras · Processors, MCUs & AI Chips
39open roles
$179kmedian advertised pay
18H-1B filings in 12 months
Btruth index, 77 of 100

Overview

Ambarella's advanced imaging solutions make cameras smarter by extracting valuable data from high-resolution video streams.

Key facts

As of Nov 13, 2026, Alion lists 39 open roles at Ambarella. The median pay stated in its open roles is $179k, across 15 postings that state pay.

Median advertised pay
$179kPay stated in 15 open postings
Visa sponsorship, United States
18 ▼ 31% · H-1B filings in 12 monthsUS Department of Labor · latest filing Jun 30, 2026
Technologies in its job postings
65Named in its job postings
Official records

How Ambarella hires

Truth index
B 77/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
94%
Reposted roles
0%

Ambarella scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 16 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 94% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Jobs

$130k – $160k per year · Equity · In office · Full-Time · Master's Degree · United States
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$265k – $300k per year · Equity · In office · Full-Time · 12+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · United States
Edge AI
Physical AI
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$120k – $160k per year · Equity · In office · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · United States
Python
Verilog
C++
SystemVerilog
Computer Vision
AI Agents
Chips/EDA
UVM
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$165k – $175k per year · Equity · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Master's Degree · United States
Python
Verilog
C++
SystemVerilog
AI Agents
Chips/EDA
UVM
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≈ $105k – $201k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · Master's Degree · United States
Python
Verilog
C++
SystemVerilog
Perl
UVM
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≈ $44k – $80k per year (Estimated) · In office · Internship · United States
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≈ $34k – $82k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · Shanghai
Python
Podman
K3s
Docker
Kubernetes
Linux
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≈ $143k – $266k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · United States
C++
Cursor
Claude
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≈ $14k – $36k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · Hsinchu
Python
C++
Quantization
Knowledge Distillation
Computer Vision
CNN
Model Distillation
Machine Learning
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$184k – $260k per year · Equity · In office · Full-Time · 7+ years exp · United States
AI Agents
Edge AI
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$152k – $179k per year · Equity · In office · Full-Time · United States
Python
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$190k – $220k per year · Equity · In office · Full-Time · 10+ years exp · United States
Computer Vision
Edge AI
Physical AI
Robotics
SLAM
Sensor Fusion
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$179k
Typical range
$105k – $300k
Open positions
15
15 Jobs
Junior 6.7%
Middle 20%
Senior 40%
Staff 13.3%
Architect 20%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 1 $150k $150k
Middle 3 $160k $156k – $160k
Senior 6 $177k $105k – $220k
Staff 2 $205k $183k – $226k
Architect 3 $265k $260k – $300k
Highest paying role Director, Ecosystem & Channel Development $300k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Ambarella By role, level and city, against the market · 15 jobs with pay

Visa sponsorship

#1,097 of 8,998 sponsors
18 ▼ 31%
H-1B filings in 12 months
10
Green card filings
$175k
Median offered salary
Who they sponsor
Software developers
10
Sales engineers
3
Electronics engineers
2
2 more occupations and the salary for eachVisa pass · 90 credits
In the register as Ambarella Corp., Santa Clara, CA (+1 more)
Other sponsors in the same field
US Department of Labor · latest filing Jun 30, 2026 · Visa details by country

Growth

Hiring Momentum
41/100
Stable
Open positions
39
4 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
37 days
faster than 36% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~14 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Hardware
33%
Backend
19% ▼
Industrial Engineering
15% ▼
Marketing
7% ▼
Sales
7%
AI/ML
4% ▼
Actively hiring for Hardware (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added VLM to stack Oct 2026
Added Vision-Language-Action to stack Oct 2026
Added GStreamer to stack Oct 2026
Added K3s to stack Oct 2026
Added Claude to stack Oct 2026
Added Model Distillation to stack Oct 2026
Added Knowledge Distillation to stack Oct 2026
Added CNN to stack Oct 2026
Added Outlook to stack Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack Sep 2026

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Ambarella over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
65
Postings analysed
38
Stack modernity
80/100AI adopter
Languages
Python47%
C++45%
Verilog32%
SystemVerilog21%
Frameworks & libraries
UVM13%
PyTorch11%
ROS5%
TensorFlow5%
Cloud & platforms
Linux26%
Kubernetes5%
RTOS5%
CentOS Stream3%
AI & ML
LLM5%
Claude3%
VLM3%
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Full Ambarella tech stack 65 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Connections

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Shared investors2
DAG VenturesVia a fund
62 portfolio companies: Zynga, Zuora, We Are FINE and 59 more
MatrixVia a fund
104 portfolio companies: PIXCEL, Post Mates, Dynamo Software and 101 more

News

News YahooFinance 2 months ago
Ambarella (AMBA) Could Be 23% Undervalued After Its Edge AI Partnerships
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News YahooFinance 2 months ago
Is Ambarella (AMBA) Quietly Turning Its AI SoC Footprint Into A Strategic Cloud Platform?
Earlier this month, Ambarella expanded its Developer Zone on Google Cloud, adding a cloud-hosted IDE, Gemini-powered agentic AI tools, and secure access to fleets of Ambarella SoC-based edge devices, alongside new integrations with ZEDEDA and Ultralytics
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News sharewise 2 months ago
Ambarella CEO Sees Edge AI Growth Across Security, Autos and Wearables
Key Points Interested in Ambarella, Inc.? Here are five stocks we like better. Ambarella sees expanding edge AI demand across security, automotive, consumer video, wearables and infrastructure,…
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News YahooFinance 2 months ago
Ambarella Beat Estimates but Fell as NXP Buyout Talk Lingered. Is the Edge-AI Upside Already Priced In?
Ambarella reported fiscal Q2 revenue of $108.1 million, up 13.2% year over year, and adjusted earnings of $0.18 per share versus $0.17 expected. Shares remained sharply lower following the results, extending a 5.6% regular-session decline as investors wei
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Blog 2 months ago
Model Bets: Will Your Model Hold Up on Your Data?
Measure performance on your own data and real silicon before you commit. Start an edge AI project by searching through a list of interestingly named models (e.g., YOLO, EfficientDet, RT-DETR, SqueezeNet) until you find one that performs your task with ach
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Blog 3 months ago
How Hellbender Builds Physical AI Perception on Ambarella's Edge Platform
A perception model that runs well on a workstation faces a harder test once it goes into a real robot. It suddenly needs to run on a small, power-limited processor, and every wasted watt becomes heat the machine needs to deal with. The processing also has
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Blog 4 months ago
The Edge Cases Were Never Edge Cases
On July 8, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration sent a letter to every autonomous vehicle developer in the country. The agency had documented a pattern: driverless vehicles entering active emergency scenes, blocking ambulances and fire crews
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Blog 4 months ago
The Gap Between Intent and Execution Is Where Edge AI Projects Stall
Bringing up a live camera stream with inference overlays on an edge AI device involves more steps than most developers expect the first time they attempt it. The device profile needs to be verified, model availability needs to be confirmed against the spe
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
Shanghai
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Shanghai China
Engineering / R&D
Shanghai office
7 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering
hires for DevOps, Backend, QA
9th Floor, Park Center
seen since Feb 2026 company site, job postings
Hsinchu Taiwan
Plant / site
Hsinchu office
6 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 50% engineering
hires for Industrial Engineering, DevOps, Hardware
Suite C1, No. 1, Li-Hsin Road 1
seen since Nov 2025 company site, job postings
Shenzhen China
Regional office
Shenzhen office
Unit E.F., 6th Floor
seen since May 2026 company site

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