Principal Engineer, Analog Design (Team Lead)

Scope 

As Principal Engineer, Analog Design (Team Lead) at Ambiq, you will contribute to the technical roadmap and architecture for the company's core analog subsystems — including PMUs, clocking, and data converters — while directly leading and developing a team of analog designers. 

This role sets technical direction across multiple concurrent programs, partners with Architecture, RTL, and Product teams at the roadmap level, and represents Ambiq's analog design capability to customers and partners. Designs span leading-edge technologies such as 22nm, 12nm, and beyond. 

You will balance individual technical contribution with people leadership: driving the highest-risk architectural decisions personally while coaching Staff and Senior engineers through their own design cycles, spec definition, and career growth. 

The successful candidate is a proven technical leader who elevates the people around them, sets a high bar for design rigor, and is comfortable being the final escalation point on the toughest analog design and organizational challenges. 

This role will be onsite, and the candidate will be expected to have a presence on site 5 days a week. 

Responsibilities 

• Own multi-generation architecture strategy and chip/block-level spec definition across analog subsystems 

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of analog design engineers, including hiring, career development, and performance management 

• Set technical standards and design methodology for circuit architecture, verification, and layout supervision across the team 

• Make final calls on the highest-risk circuit architecture and verification trade-offs 

• Directly conduct or supervise transistor-level analog IC design for the most critical or novel circuit blocks 

• Chair design reviews across multiple projects; drive resolution of the most complex action items 

• Partner with digital design leadership to align interface specs and verification strategy for analog/digital integration 

• Own the analog test and validation strategy for prototype bring-up through high-volume production 

• Represent analog engineering in cross-functional roadmap, customer, and executive discussions 

• Support Marketing, Product Engineering, and Applications leadership on product definition and customer commitments 

• Drive continuous improvement in design flow, tools, and reuse strategy across the analog team