Senior Applications Engineer, Documentation

Ambiq Micro, Inc. • Austin, TX

13h • Onsite

About The Position

As the Senior Applications Engineer at Ambiq, you will be responsible for developing our customer-facing technical documentation, including datasheets, reference manuals, errata lists, hardware user guides, and application notes. This role will work with the applications team, along with architecture, hardware design, software design, and validation engineering teams to gather and create technical content, review electrical specifications, and coordinate cross-functional review to deliver high-quality documentation to the field. The successful candidate should have strong experience with Adobe Framemaker and MS Word for document creation, as well as Jira for documentation project tracking. Strong organizational, written, and verbal communication skills are a must. Experience with and comprehension of embedded systems will be essential for understanding and describing the products and the technical issues that arise. The person in this role will also be involved in tracking SoC device-level issues raised by internal engineering teams or the field, to determine if and how such issues are to be communicated to customers in our documentation.

Requirements

• MS in ECE and 2+ years of experience or BS ECE with 3+ years of experience in technical document creation using Adobe Framemaker and Microsoft Word.
• Good understanding of embedded systems from both SoC hardware and software perspectives. Understanding of ARM Cortex-M processors is highly desirable.
• Ability to understand and effectively describe the operation of common MCU peripherals such as SPI, I2C, and UART.
• Ability to read and understand PCB schematics.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence and collaboration tools.
• Strong communication skills.
• Must be currently authorized to work in the United States for any employer. We do not sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas (now or in the future) for this role.

Nice To Haves

• Skills with using LLMs like ChatGPT to expedite research and development of technical documentation is a plus.
• Experience with revision control systems (git) is ideal.

Responsibilities

• Generate core technical documentation for Ambiq products with the help of engineering and subject matter experts.
• Coordinate with internal engineering and validation teams to fully understand technical issues to document them properly and effectively.
• Coordinate document reviews from a broad, cross-functional team.
• Monitor field-reported customer issues to help determine the need for new/additional usage descriptions in technical documents.
• Maintain a document repository for change tracking and create updates and new releases in a timely manner.
• Maintain Jira projects to keep document creation efforts well organized and reportable.
• Assist in the creation of application notes, knowledge base articles, hardware design guidelines, and other ad hoc document creation and delivery.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level