Semiconductor Jobs

• Edinburgh
• £30,000 – £40,000 pa
• Entry level

Join a disruptive semiconductor company designing and validating high-speed digital electronics, FPGA solutions and embedded software. You will build automated test and characterisation rigs in Python, support customer evaluations and demonstrations, and represent the company at trade shows and on international customer visits.

Altium · OrCAD

• Chelmsford
• On-site
• Mid-level
• Permanent · Shift work

Hands-on electronics role supporting silicon wafer processing, package and test equipment across three cleanroom areas. You respond rapidly to equipment faults, lead preventive maintenance and installations, manage contractors and risk assessments, and work with gases, chemicals, robotics, vacuum and electronics on a double day shift.

• Didcot
• Hybrid · 4 days in office
• £41,000 – £67,000 pa
• Senior
• Contract

Develops, tests and optimises FPGA firmware in VHDL or Verilog for next-generation control systems and power electronics, including interfaces to ADCs, DACs, memory and microcontrollers. Involves simulation, verification, lab-based hardware debugging and collaboration with hardware, software and systems engineers. Senior applicants can lead development activities and mentor others.

Xilinx · LTspice · PSpice +6

• Bristol
• Lead

Lead FPGA and SoC design for airborne imaging and sensor systems, owning architecture for video processing, sensor integration, stabilisation and control. Hands-on work spans RTL development in VHDL/SystemVerilog, simulation, synthesis, timing closure, hardware bring-up and verification, plus mentoring junior engineers and reviewing schematics and constraints.

Xilinx · AMD · Intel +4

• Fareham
• £65,000 – £75,000 pa
• Senior

Lead technical integration of advanced semiconductor and touch products into customer devices, combining hands-on circuit design, prototype tooling and system validation. Provide remote and on-site support to global customers, guide regional application teams, mentor engineers and coordinate project planning and documentation.

• Durham
• On-site
• Senior

Support 300mm wafer fabs by introducing new process technology, ramping yield and providing RMA support. Monitor electrical performance, SPC and OOC parameters, run DOEs and drive defect characterisation and root-cause analysis. Work closely with process integration, principal engineers and cross-functional teams on high-volume manufacturing.

JMP · 300mm Wafer Fab · SPC +3

• Edinburgh
• Senior

Contribute to pre-silicon verification of analog and mixed-signal products, covering top-level DMS SV/UVM, gate-level simulation, and metric-driven AMS simulations. Bridge verification and validation environments to support post-silicon validation while establishing and improving verification flows and models for a global multi-disciplinary team.

Cadence Xcelium · Cadence IMC · Cadence Virtuoso +7

• Portsmouth
• Hybrid · 1–2 days in office
• £82 ph
• Mid-level
• Contract

Designs production-ready digital electronics, covering component selection, simulation, schematic capture and PCB layout guidance. Develops FPGA/CPLD solutions in VHDL and verifies designs through simulation, analysis and test, including EMC and system bring-up. Works within a multi-disciplinary Mission Systems team on defence electronics, supporting peer and formal design reviews.

FPGA · CPLD · VHDL +4

• Edinburgh
• Senior · manages people
• Permanent

Lead the design and verification of CMOS analog blocks for custom mixed-signal ASICs, taking technical ownership of full-chip or major system-level blocks from specification through to production ramp. The role combines hands-on circuit design with mentoring a team of engineers, working alongside digital, layout, DFT and test teams, and driving silicon debug and characterisation.

Cadence · EDA

• United Kingdom
• On-site
• £500 – £1,000 pd
• Contract

Contract roles spanning embedded software, FPGA and electronics hardware engineering for a UK SME delivering complex systems in highly regulated, secure environments. Day-to-day work includes low-level C/C++ development, VHDL/Verilog FPGA design, digital and electronic hardware design, debugging, and lifecycle work from requirements through integration, verification and test alongside multidisciplinary teams.

Ethernet · TCP/IP · SPI +6

• Edinburgh
• Lead

Develops verification and emulation environments for complex Chiplet designs, building UVM-SV scoreboards, functional coverage, and SystemVerilog assertions for formal and simulation. Integrates Cadence VIP and accelerated VIP, manages vPlans in vManager, and maintains automated regression environments using Jenkins and GIT within an experienced Chiplet team.

Cadence Palladium · Cadence VIP · Cadence vManager +3

• Whiteley
• Hybrid
• £75,000 pa
• Senior

Lead the integration and validation of advanced touch technologies into customer devices, acting as the key technical interface between global customers and internal engineering teams. The role combines hands-on circuit design, Python scripting and hardware tooling with technical leadership, mentoring and international travel.

• Edinburgh
• Manages people
• Permanent

Owns the full analog and mixed-signal development cycle for IC products, from specification and system architecture through IP requirements, verification planning and layout. Works with product definition, marketing, project management and cross-functional test, product engineering and quality teams, and mentors team members. Requires precision analog, power management and high-voltage BCD design expertise.

• Oxford
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

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 team works to.

Cadence Allegro · Altium · Gerber +7

• Guildford
• On-site
• £40,000 – £46,000 pa
• Entry level

Join a multidisciplinary team building integrated software-hardware systems for defence and security, spanning low-power embedded devices to high-throughput server applications. You'll apply C/C++, FPGA, and electronics skills to complex projects combining custom hardware with innovative software, with labs and prototyping facilities on site.

FPGA · VHDL · PCB