Staff Software Engineer, Dev-Ops

Ambiq Micro, Inc.•Austin, TX

2d•Onsite

About The Position

As a member of the SWS team at Ambiq, the Staff Engineer, Dev-Ops position will work with the various software teams to deliver the SDK releases that are integral to Ambiq’s success, using, planning and expanding the current CI/CD processes in place to meet Ambiq’s continued growth and expanding SOC product line. A successful candidate should be a fast-learning, result-driven, and self-motivated team player with an “always learning” mindset. They should have an inquiring spirit and be comfortable in a lab environment and in executing hands-on debugging for embedded systems. The candidate will be involved in the extension of each of these to cover new MCU members of the family as they become available

Requirements

A Bachelor's of Science or Master's in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science.
8+ years in DevOps/SQA/Platform Engineering with the most recent experiance being at a staff-level. Familiarity with site reliability engineering (SRE) is desirable
Strong experience in deploying and operating Jenkins at scale with external execution hardware. Using both cloud and in-house repositories.
Experience running CI/build workloads, including multi-compiler builds, security sensitive code, and optimizing performance.
Proven ownership of a software release process.
Strong coding skills both in C and Python is a requirement, with embedded debugging skills is a benefit.
Strong cross platform skills both Linux and windows.
Good cross team collaboration skills is a must, experience managing a direct reports or contractors is desired.
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.

Responsibilities

Integral part of the SDK release cycles (release candidate validation, packaging, build, and test), working with the various software teams to accomplish the release plans with the committed features and quality.
Build/maintain Jenkins jobs for SDK builds + nightly/periodic regression suitesAdministration of Jenkins as new products are developed and added.
Maintain, improve and scale the Ambiq proprietary build system that supports support the various Ambiq SOC offerings.
Plan and deploy the automated SDK regression test hardware used in the CI testing.
Deploy both pre-silicon FPGA-based and post silicon setups into the CI flows.
Debug hardware and software issues impacting automation and build systems.
Use various tools to ensure compliance with the different open source licensing requirements.
Work with Ambiq’s IT team to maintain and improved the regression lab’s overall all performance and reliability.
Document the automation framework and processes to ensure future maintainability.
Be a technical expert for the installation and setup of the software tools needed for doing SDK development, maintain the tools repository and documentation.
Work across teams to help with tools setup and issues.