Semiconductor Jobs

Renesas Electronics · Bourne End

Serve as technical lead for analog and power solutions, supporting UK and Ireland customers from pre-design through production. Drive design-ins and design-wins via architecture development, schematic and layout reviews, bench validation, and hands-on debug across PMICs, DC/DC, GaN, and signal chain. Act as the field voice back to product divisions while working within the sales team.

Beautiful Recruitment · Towcester

Provide equipment engineering leadership in a UK wafer fab, covering advanced fault-finding, preventative maintenance and optimisation of semiconductor process tools handling hazardous chemicals and speciality gases. Mentor technicians and junior engineers, manage vendors and contractors, and drive TPM and 8-step improvement projects while reporting OEE metrics to executives.

Avanti Recruitment · ELY · £50,000 – £65,000 pa

Hands-on ownership of FPGA architecture for advanced sensing and Edge-AI products, spanning high-speed data acquisition, SoC-FPGA integration, real-time DSP and future CNN acceleration. Day-to-day work covers VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog RTL, ADC and LVDS acquisition, DMA, AXI and PS/PL integration, DDR streaming pipelines, timing closure and CDC, plus hardware bring-up and Embedded Linux/PetaLinux integration.

Avanti Recruitment · Southampton · £50,000 – £80,000 pa

Hands-on role across the full FPGA development lifecycle, covering VHDL design, verification and SoC-based systems using Xilinx devices and Vivado. Work spans video/image processing, high-speed data, signal processing and embedded integration for defence and mission-critical products, with ownership of technical decisions and mentoring of junior engineers.

Semtech · Bristol

Owns test strategy and architecture for major semiconductor product lines on the Advantest V93000 platform, writing test plans and coverage objectives rather than executing someone else's. Leads complex test program development, statistical and adaptive test methods, yield and quality improvement, and test technology roadmaps while mentoring engineers. Hybrid role based in Bristol with Monday–Thursday onsite and up to 20% travel.

Semtech · Bristol

Lead bench PVT characterization for high-speed optical and electrical signal integrity products, developing automated test environments and analyzing complex datasets. Work with an international team across the UK, Canada, US and Mexico, using Python automation and mentoring junior engineers in a lab-based NPI role.

NVIDIA · Cambridge

This role involves developing high-performance CPU compilers for NVIDIA's data centre and AI technologies, with a focus on hardware-software co-design. You'll analyse AI and HPC workloads to drive optimisations in both compiler toolchains and future CPU architectures, contributing to open-source projects like LLVM and GCC. The position requires deep expertise in compiler development, low-level performance analysis, and collaboration across distributed engineering teams.

Analog Devices · Newbury

Designs multi-channel digital receivers and transmitters for phased-array, radar, electronic warfare and satellite communication markets, developing RF converter-centric hardware and software from concept to productization. Analyses signal chains using RF cascade concepts and guides customers through system integration, troubleshooting and testing.

Analog Devices · Hayes

Field Application Engineer supporting regional accounts across the UK, working with Account Managers and Business Unit specialists to solve complex application-level problems and drive design wins. Involves building customer relationships, identifying new business opportunities, training customers and presenting at seminars, with around 10% travel.

NVIDIA · Cambridge

Develops algorithms and optimizations for NVIDIA's LPX inference and compiler stack, building high-performance runtime and compiler components and mapping large-scale neural network workloads onto future hardware. Involves LLVM/MLIR work, graph transformations, scheduling and memory/layout optimizations, plus close codesign with hardware architects.

eFinancialCareers · Cambridge

A technical leadership role steering Electronic Warfare architecture across the full product lifecycle, from customer engagement and solution design to execution and live trials. You will integrate EW solutions spanning software, RF/hardware, DSP, FPGA and systems engineering, shape long-term technology strategy, mentor engineers and represent the business at industry symposiums.

eFinancialCareers · London

Designs and operates ultra-low-latency trading systems at global scale, working across the latency-critical stack from kernel-level tuning and network optimisation to highly efficient C++ components. Collaborates closely with FPGA, hardware and infrastructure engineers on end-to-end architectures where every nanosecond counts.

VRS Recruitment · High Wycombe · £60,000 – £80,000 pa

Designs complex analogue and digital circuits for low-noise instrumentation, covering the full product lifecycle from concept to production. Works with scientists and multidisciplinary teams on verification, FMEA, PCBA testing and manufacturability, using tools such as OrCAD or Altium.