Semiconductor Jobs

Beautiful Recruitment · Northamptonshire

Provide technical and engineering support to Epitaxy Shift Equipment Engineers and Technicians, maintaining Veeco and Aixtron MOVPE/MOCVD equipment, troubleshooting complex faults including bioreactors, and leading improvements, upgrades and installations. The role involves process gas systems, hazardous materials and SCBA use, plus supervising contractors and driving preventative maintenance in a semiconductor fab cleanroom.

Belcan · Newport · £85 ph

Owns the full FPGA development lifecycle on a defence and aerospace programme, from requirements capture and architecture through VHDL implementation, verification and integration onto target hardware. Also leads and mentors other engineers, manages work packages to cost and quality targets, and reports progress to engineering leadership. Based fully on-site in Newport under SC clearance.

Morson Edge · Spalding · £60 – £90 ph

Deliver FPGA firmware for defence, transportation and aerospace products, covering architecture, requirements, design, verification and validation. Work alongside systems, software and hardware engineers using VHDL, SystemVerilog, C++ and tools such as ModelSim/QuestaSim, with a mix of on-site and remote working plus customer site visits.

Wolviston Management Services · Newton Aycliffe

Generates, verifies and releases MMIC integrated circuit layouts and mask reticle designs within a Design Services team, taking designs from concept through to mask release. Liaises with customers, engineers, programme managers and external mask manufacturers, and maintains reticle records and design archives. Uses CAD layout tools such as KLayout, L-Edit or Nazca Design.

Wolviston Management Services · Newton Aycliffe

Generates, verifies and releases MMIC integrated circuit layouts and mask reticle designs, taking them from initial concept through to mask release. Works in a Design Services team, producing mask order documentation and reticle records while liaising with engineers, programme managers, customers and external mask manufacturers.

Pragmatic Semiconductor · Durham

Drive manufacturing quality improvements across a semiconductor fab, leading the Fab Quality system, change management, audits and supplier quality programmes. Apply FMEA, SPC, MSA, 8D and root cause analysis to reduce non-conformances, while maintaining ISO 9001/14001/27001 compliance and delivering staff training.

Pragmatic Semiconductor · Durham

Responsible for maintaining, installing and fault-finding 300mm photolithography equipment including steppers, wafer tracks and bake tools, while supporting production operators and minimising tool downtime. Involves training technicians, developing maintenance procedures and reporting on equipment KPIs within a cleanroom semiconductor scale-up environment.

Lumai · Oxford

Builds firmware, peripheral drivers and RTOS-based control software for an optical AI accelerator, covering RTOS tasks and IPC, board support package bring-up, boot loaders and first-boot debugging on custom hardware. Works closely with a senior embedded engineer and hardware teams, writing unit and integration tests and maintaining embedded CI pipelines.

Shorterm Group · Cambridge · £45,000 – £65,000 pa

Hands-on product development role spanning the full electronics lifecycle, from requirements and circuit design through PCB layout, manufacture, integration, testing and validation. You'll design analogue and digital circuits, manage PCB fabrication with external suppliers, and debug prototype hardware while collaborating closely with software, optics and mechanical engineers on advanced sensing and measurement systems.

Line Up Aviation · Newport · £85 ph

Responsible for executing allocated FPGA work packages within cost, time and quality constraints, covering requirements analysis, architectural and detailed design, implementation, verification and integration onto target platforms. Requires proficiency in VHDL, simulation and synthesis tools, with recent experience of Altera, Microsemi or Xilinx devices, plus technical support and review of team members' work.

ARM · Newport · £75 – £85 ph

Six-month contract designing FPGA solutions for a defence and aerospace client, covering requirements analysis, architectural and detailed design, implementation, verification and integration onto target platforms. The engineer also provides technical support, reviews team members' work and helps maintain the company's FPGA development processes. Hands-on VHDL work with Altera, Microsemi or Xilinx devices and simulation/synthesis tools.

Analog Devices · Newbury

Field Applications Engineer role focused on system-level engagement with Aerospace, Defense and Communications customers at ADI's Newbury Catalyst site. You will develop and execute pilot demos using evaluation boards, system platforms and COTS modules, write Python code to tailor solutions, and work on-site with customers customising radar, electronic warfare and sensing designs. Part of the wider European System Platforms team, feeding customer insights back into future ADI products.

Vacgen · East Sussex

Bridges design and manufacture, supporting New Product Introduction and developing manufacturing routes, BOMs and ERP data. Designs vacuum chambers, fixtures and tooling in 3D CAD, produces drawings and documentation, and drives continuous improvement using 8D, DFMEA, PFMEA and PPAP. Works hands-on with shop floor, customers and suppliers on ultra-high vacuum technology.

Belcan · Newport · £85 ph

Design, develop and verify FPGA solutions in VHDL across the full development lifecycle, from requirements capture and architecture definition to simulation, validation and hardware integration. You'll provide technical leadership within a multidisciplinary team on a Defence & Aerospace programme, using Xilinx, Altera or Microsemi devices with Vivado, Quartus II, ModelSim or Libero tooling.

Lumai · Oxford

Owns dense, high-layer-count PCB layout from schematic handoff to fabrication release, covering stackups, HDI structures, controlled-impedance routing, differential pairs and BGA breakout for large FPGAs and custom ASICs. Acts as the main technical contact with fabricators and assembly houses, and sets the footprint libraries, design rules and CAD standards the wider team works to.