Semiconductor Jobs in Portsmouth

• Fareham
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• £70,000 – £75,000 pa
• Senior
• Permanent

Support the integration of semiconductor products into customer devices, testing internal developments and providing direct technical support for design-in activities. Design and build hardware tooling, coordinate project tasks, and act as a technical interface to customers, including international travel. The role also carries technical leadership across multiple teams, mentoring engineers and driving autonomous development.

• Fareham
• Senior

Design and implement FPGA functionality in VHDL for advanced embedded communication products, verifying designs through simulation, testing and hardware validation. Work alongside software, electronics, RF and systems engineers across the full product lifecycle, integrating FPGAs with processors and embedded software and resolving system-level issues in existing products.

AMD/Xilinx · Vivado · Embedded Linux +2

• Fareham
• £55,000 – £65,000 pa
• Senior

Lead algorithm development for RISC-V-based capacitive touch controllers, owning projects from problem definition and modelling through experimentation, optimisation and validation on real hardware. Work spans sensor physics, mixed-signal electronics and DSP, designing filtering, calibration and noise-rejection algorithms while mentoring junior colleagues.

MATLAB · Python · RISC-V +5

• Fareham
• £65,000 – £75,000 pa
• Senior

Lead technical integration of advanced semiconductor and touch products into customer devices, combining hands-on circuit design, prototype tooling and system validation. Provide remote and on-site support to global customers, guide regional application teams, mentor engineers and coordinate project planning and documentation.

• Whiteley
• Hybrid
• £75,000 pa
• Senior

Lead the integration and validation of advanced touch technologies into customer devices, acting as the key technical interface between global customers and internal engineering teams. The role combines hands-on circuit design, Python scripting and hardware tooling with technical leadership, mentoring and international travel.

• Whiteley
• £50,000 – £80,000 pa
• Senior

Design and optimise capacitive sensing architectures, develop and verify RTL in Verilog/SystemVerilog, and write embedded C/C++ software for sensing and signal processing. Lead silicon bring-up, debugging and validation across analogue, digital and firmware domains, collaborating with global teams on HMI solutions.

Verilog · SystemVerilog · C/C++ +7

• Portsmouth
• Hybrid · 1–2 days in office
• £82 ph
• Mid-level
• Contract

Designs production-ready digital electronics, covering component selection, simulation, schematic capture and PCB layout guidance. Develops FPGA/CPLD solutions in VHDL and verifies designs through simulation, analysis and test, including EMC and system bring-up. Works within a multi-disciplinary Mission Systems team on defence electronics, supporting peer and formal design reviews.

FPGA · CPLD · VHDL +4

• Fareham
• £33,000 – £38,000 pa
• Junior

Develop and debug embedded C firmware for microcontrollers, support capacitive sensing algorithm development, and use Python for modelling, simulation and data analysis. Work alongside software, hardware and applications engineering teams on new features, investigating performance issues across software and hardware.

Git · SVN · MATLAB +1