Staff Engineer

Staff Engineer

Company: Ambarella
Employment Type: Full-Time | On-Site / Hybrid

Position Overview

Ambarella is seeking an experienced Staff Engineer to contribute to the design, development, and optimization of advanced semiconductor, AI vision, and embedded technology solutions.

This senior technical role will be responsible for solving complex engineering challenges, driving key technical initiatives, influencing system architecture, and collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams to deliver high-performance, reliable, and scalable products.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, implementation, and optimization of complex engineering solutions.
• Provide technical leadership across semiconductor, embedded systems, AI, computer vision, and related product development initiatives.
• Contribute to system architecture, technical specifications, design reviews, and key engineering decisions.
• Develop, test, debug, validate, and optimize hardware and/or software components based on project requirements.
• Analyze complex technical issues, perform root-cause analysis, and develop effective solutions.
• Partner closely with Hardware, Software, Systems, AI/ML, Product, Validation, and Operations teams throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Identify technical risks, performance bottlenecks, and opportunities for design improvements.
• Drive engineering best practices related to design quality, performance, reliability, testing, and documentation.
• Mentor junior and senior engineers and provide technical guidance across engineering projects.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and methodologies that can improve product capabilities and engineering efficiency.
• Support product development from initial concept and architecture through validation and production.
• Communicate technical recommendations, project status, and engineering tradeoffs to technical and business stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive engineering experience in semiconductor, embedded systems, computer vision, AI/ML, hardware, software, or related technology fields.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
• Strong technical expertise in one or more areas including semiconductor design, embedded systems, SoC architecture, computer vision, AI acceleration, firmware, or systems engineering.
• Demonstrated experience solving complex engineering problems and delivering production-quality technology solutions.
• Strong understanding of system architecture, performance optimization, debugging, testing, and validation.
• Experience working across multidisciplinary engineering teams and complex product development environments.
• Ability to provide technical leadership and mentor other engineers without requiring direct management responsibility.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and technical documentation skills.
• Experience working in a fast-paced semiconductor or advanced technology environment preferred.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a highly accomplished and hands-on technical leader who combines deep engineering expertise with strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities. They should be comfortable owning complex technical challenges, influencing architecture and engineering decisions, mentoring other engineers, and collaborating across multiple technical disciplines to deliver innovative, high-performance solutions.

Pay: $157,800.00 - $275,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible spending account
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Parental leave
• Retirement plan

Work Location: Remote