Semiconductor Jobs

Line Up Aviation · Stevenage · £90 ph

Design and verify complex FPGA architectures for signal processing, embedded and safety-critical systems, targeting Xilinx, Intel and Microsemi devices. Work spans VHDL and SystemVerilog/UVM testbenches, Mentor toolsets, and low-level C for test and integration within a multidiscipline team.

SoCode · Cambridge · £50 – £65 ph

Embedded within an established electronics team at a UK medical technology business, supporting design capture and review of complex electronics from requirements and schematic capture through design reviews and PCBA layout to board bring-up and system test. Requires broad electronics design experience with depth in areas such as embedded microprocessors, motor drive circuits, FPGA design or analogue sensor interfaces, using Altium Designer and DFx/EMC principles.

White Label Recruitment · Winsford · £35,000 – £60,000 pa

Take electronic hardware from specification through simulation and productionisation within a small, multi-disciplinary development team. Work spans analogue and low-noise circuit design, high-voltage power supplies, multilayer surface-mount PCBs, FPGAs, microcontrollers and C/C++/C# firmware, plus product validation and international certification.

Matchtech · Stevenage · £85 – £90 ph

Design and verify complex FPGA architectures for defence and security systems, working across the full lifecycle with VHDL, Simulink and SystemVerilog/UVM testbenches. Targets Xilinx, Intel and Microsemi devices, using QuestaSim/ModelSim and low-level C for embedded integration within a multidisciplinary team.

Platform Recruitment · Coventry · £40,000 – £60,000 pa

Work across the full FPGA design cycle, from requirements analysis and specification through RTL design, implementation and verification. Define module architectures, run synthesis and timing analysis, and integrate FPGAs into target hardware, using VHDL or Verilog and leading vendor tools alongside senior engineers and system architects.

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.

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.

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.

Archangel Lightworks · Oxford · £25,000 – £60,000 pa

Develops laser communication terminal optical and photonic subsystems, from requirements definition and trade-off analysis through modelling, breadboard testing, and assembly, integration and test. Works closely with the Product Technical Lead and optical engineering team, managing component suppliers and providing technical leadership of subsystem projects, with system-level testing and field trials.