Hardware Engineer

Platform Recruitment
Edinburgh, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom
Last week
£30,000 – £40,000 pa

Salary

£30,000 – £40,000 pa

Posted
27 Aug 2026 (Last week)

Hardware Engineer | Edinburgh | £30-40k DOE

We’re looking for an engineer to join a disruptive semiconductor company developing ground breaking technology in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

* Design, develop and validate high-speed digital electronics, FPGA solutions, embedded software and application software.

* Build and automate product testing and characterisation using Python, developing repeatable test plans and customer-facing technical reports.

* Support customers and partners with technical evaluations, demonstrations, training, integration and first-line technical support.

* Represent the company at customer sites, trade shows and industry events, feeding customer insight back into product development and engineering

Technical Requirements

* Degree in Electronics Engineering or a related subject, with some relevant industry, internship or project experience.

* Exposure to electronics design, including schematic capture (e.g. Altium/OrCAD) and hands-on hardware bring-up, debugging and rework.

* Experience or academic/project exposure to C, Python and FPGA design, with an understanding of software development practices.

Personal Requirements

* Fast learner and naturally inquisitive, able to quickly understand new technologies and apply them practically.

* Proactive, reliable and adaptable, with the confidence to work autonomously in a rapidly changing environment.

* Strong communicator who can translate technical problems between customer engineering teams and internal engineering.

* Detail-oriented team player with a genuine enthusiasm for engineering and modern development practices, including AI-assisted workflows.

Bonus Skills

* Experience working across the hardware/software interface, particularly where system constraints and interfaces are critical.

* Exposure to high-speed digital design or FPGA development.

* Experience with automated testing, technical documentation, specifications or customer-facing engineering.

* Comfortable combining hands-on development with customer visits, demonstrations and field engineering, including international travel.

Benefits

* Opportunity to work with the most bleeding edge technologies

* Share options

* 25 days holiday which increases year on year

* Competitive pension scheme

Ready to truly kickstart your career working on the newest technology in a fast-paced environment? Apply today

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