Semiconductor Jobs

Renesas Electronics · Swindon

Provide technical leadership for a global engineering compute and design-data-management environment, combining hands-on CAD work with Perforce Helix and IPLM-based data management. You will develop Linux-based engineering environments, Python and shell automation, project/workspace methodologies, and migration paths from legacy platforms, while supporting EDA tool integration and training engineering teams.

Eclectic Recruitment · Stevenage · £70,000 – £85,000 pa

Lead a team of FPGA and digital design engineers while providing hands-on technical direction across FPGA architecture, RTL design, simulation, synthesis, timing closure and hardware validation. Own project execution including planning, estimation, scheduling and risk management, and work with Systems, Software, Hardware and Verification teams to deliver integrated solutions from concept through to production.

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.

Gold Group · Bedford · £54 – £64 ph

Lead the design, development and support of mixed electrical/electronic LRU solutions from concept to completion through a phase-gate process, including analogue, digital, microprocessor and FPGA circuitry, schematic capture and PCB layout. The role provides technical governance to the team, reviews supplier capabilities and produces documentation, working on-site two mandatory days a week.

Platform Recruitment · Cambridge · £55,000 – £75,000 pa

Join a multidisciplinary R&D team tackling complex deep tech engineering challenges, designing and implementing systems for advanced products. Work across analogue and digital hardware, embedded software, control and communications, while mentoring junior and undergraduate engineers and liaising with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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

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.

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.

Octagon Group · Southampton · £30,000 – £35,000 pa

Hands-on fabrication of specialist optical devices in a cleanroom, using photolithography, etching, dicing and other semiconductor processes to support development and manufacture of advanced optical components. The role splits time between the company's site and the University of Southampton's specialist fabrication facilities, working alongside experienced technicians and engineers.

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.

Semtech · Sevenoaks

Designs analogue and mixed-signal subsystems for high-speed TIA and laser driver ICs supporting data rates up to 200G, taking ownership of blocks from concept through validation and volume production. Works with layout, verification and product teams on performance, power and area targets, using Cadence tools within a Stansted and Ottawa design centre.

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.