Semiconductor Jobs

IonQ · Oxford

Owns the full lifecycle of electrical reliability fixes on operational trapped-ion quantum computers, from triaging and root-causing control and drive-electronics faults to designing, prototyping and retrofitting permanent solutions. Works across Operations, Science and Manufacturing on fleet-wide upgrades, standardising hardware and building telemetry to reduce downtime.

IonQ · Oxford

Architect and maintain UVM/SystemVerilog verification environments for complex FPGA designs, defining verification plans with constrained-random testing and functional coverage. Build automated regression suites and CI pipelines, collaborating with RTL engineers to debug and ensure reliable quantum control systems.

Platform Recruitment · Cambridge · £100,000 – £160,000 pa

Design and develop reusable FPGA modules in SystemVerilog for deployment across multiple next-generation products, with RTL verification and timing closure work. You'll write specifications, review code and documentation, and collaborate with hardware, software and mechanical engineers in a hybrid Cambridge team.

Lumai · Oxford

Own a Python-based performance and power modelling framework predicting how photonic AI hardware runs real inference workloads, giving architecture and compiler teams a shared source of truth for latency, throughput and power. Model compute engines, interconnect, memory and bridge interfaces, validate against RTL or emulation, and run benchmarks such as UL Procyon, Geekbench AI and LLMs.

Teledyne FLIR · Wilsonville, United States

This HR Business Partner role involves providing strategic people leadership to a major division within Teledyne FLIR's Defense business. The individual will partner with senior leaders globally to drive organizational effectiveness, talent development, and change management, using data-driven insights and AI-enabled analytics. The role requires proactive workforce planning, fostering inclusive culture, and supporting complex employee relations across multiple countries.

Anonymous · London

Develops FPGA-based digital control hardware for next-generation photonic quantum computing systems, covering architecture, RTL design, simulation, synthesis, timing analysis and verification. Works in a multidisciplinary R&D team with electronics engineers, physicists and software developers on high-speed, low-latency control and signal processing, including ADC/DAC interfacing and hardware bring-up.

Anonymous · London

Own the full electronics development lifecycle for photonic computing hardware, from analogue and mixed-signal circuit design through schematic capture, PCB layout, prototyping and lab verification. Work alongside physicists, optical and embedded software engineers in a collaborative R&D team, testing with oscilloscopes and spectrum analysers and supporting integration and EMC.

Copello · Bristol · £80,000 – £900,000 pa

Take technical ownership of FPGA and programmable logic design for advanced gimbal payload systems, covering video capture and processing, sensor and high-speed serial interfaces, and real-time pointing and stabilisation control. Lead RTL design, verification, synthesis and hardware bring-up, taking in-house boards from prototype to qualified production while mentoring other engineers.

Redline Group · Devizes · £80,000 – £90,000 pa

Translate probabilistic algorithms from Python, C++, MATLAB and pseudocode into pipelined, resource-efficient FPGA RTL, writing custom VHDL from scratch where vendor IP is unsuitable. Architect high-speed data acquisition pipelines using ultra-fast ADCs, PCIe, Ethernet and transceivers, and handle verification, bring-up and timing/power optimisation across multiple clock domains alongside hardware, software, research and ASIC teams.

Platform Recruitment · Cambridge · £35,000 – £45,000 pa

Develops FPGA and embedded firmware for high-performance data acquisition and signal processing systems used in biomedical research. Writes VHDL for FPGA functionality and C for low-level hardware control, integrating and debugging digital electronics alongside hardware and software engineers. Offers real project ownership and a progression route to senior engineering roles.

Lumai · Oxford

Owns embedded software for a novel optical AI accelerator, writing Linux kernel and bare-metal device drivers, firmware for control processors, and deterministic RTOS control tasks. Leads board support package bring-up on new custom silicon revisions, debugging with JTAG, scopes and logic analysers, and sets the embedded team's coding standards and test methodology.

Renesas Electronics · Edinburgh

Owns verification of complex digital and mixed-signal ASIC designs, building SystemVerilog/UVM testbenches and running block-level to full-chip simulation, coverage and regression. Includes gate-level simulation with SDF timing annotation and mentoring junior engineers. Hybrid role with three set office days in Edinburgh.

ARCA · Nailsea

Designs and develops electrical modules and sub-assemblies for specialist environmental technology systems used in semiconductor manufacturing, taking products from initial design through verification and documentation. Works within a multidisciplinary team, selecting components, running calculations and tests, and producing models, drawings and bills of materials to machinery safety and industry standards.

Morson Edge · West Sussex · £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.

Semtech · Sevenoaks · CA$95,000 – CA$122,000 pa

Owns new product introduction for high-speed analog and mixed-signal ICs, from concept through volume manufacturing and end-of-life. Defines DfT/DfM requirements, drives ATE test program development, PVT characterisation, ATE-to-bench correlation, yield analysis and DOE-based optimisation. Works cross-functionally with design, test, quality and operations, and mentors junior engineers.