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Since 2010, we've shipped over 300 million units to customers building smarter wearables, medical devices, IoT products, and AI-powered edge applications.\nOur 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.\nWe're looking for self-motivated, creative problem-solvers who are eager to push technological limits and make a real impact in energy efficiency.\nAt Ambiq, we live by five values: Innovate. Collaborate. Focus. Learn. Achieve.\nIf that's you, join us - the intelligence everywhere revolution starts here.\nScope \nAs the Staff Applications Software Engineer at Ambiq, you will be responsible for supporting Ambiq’s Apollo and Atomiq families of SoCs. \nThis role will work with our hardware and software development teams, field engineering team, and customers to develop software, including example applications for Ambiq and customer evaluation hardware, device drivers, HAL updates, and Zephyr enablement. In addition, the Software Engineer will debug device level software issues, support field engineering with customer issues, and help create customer-facing documentation such as application notes and software design guidelines. \nThe successful candidate should have a strong understanding of embedded development on Cortex-M MCUs, bare-metal and real-time operating systems, and be familiar with debugging the same. 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