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Hire digital design engineers in the UK

What digital design engineers are paid, what to name in the advert, and who you are up against — from the adverts on Semiconductor Jobs, not a survey. Looking for the roles themselves? See Digital Design Engineer jobs.

What you will pay

£40k to £110k, most around £83k

The range employers advertised for digital design engineers on Semiconductor Jobs over the last 12 months, base salary only, across 11 priced adverts. Adverts that state a salary get more applications than those that hide it, and a figure at or above the midpoint is the single cheapest thing you can do for the response.

Remote or anchored

A fully remote role draws the whole country and can pay a little under the London figure; an anchored one competes locally and cannot.
Greenfield or inherited

Building from nothing is worth more to the right person than running what exists, and they will ask which it is.
Someone senior to learn from

A strong lead in the team is worth thousands on the offer; without one, expect to pay for that experience directly.

Who you are competing with

Hiring digital design engineers on Semiconductor Jobs right now

Three live adverts for the role, as candidates see them. How rivals pitch it is worth a look before you write yours.

SoCode

Digital Design Engineer

Cambridge
On-site
£45,000 – £55,000 pa
Mid-level

Own significant blocks of RTL from specification through implementation, verification and into working hardware, focused on physical layer design in the communications space. Work alongside senior and principal engineers on digital RF and fixed-point DSP, with hands-on lab time on AMD/Xilinx FPGA platforms. A new role in a small, established team with low attrition.

AMD · Xilinx · MATLAB

Last week

Analog Devices

Senior Digital Design Engineer

Edinburgh
Senior

Implements and verifies digital logic for mixed-signal SoCs used in high-performance power systems, covering RTL development, synthesis, static timing analysis and DFT insertion. Works with analog, firmware and validation teams on integration, silicon bring-up and lab debug, with scope to improve methodology and automation.

Genus · Innovus · Tempus +4

3 weeks ago