Semiconductor Jobs

• Edinburgh
• Hybrid
• Lead
• Permanent

Provide technical leadership for a global engineering compute and design-data-management environment, combining hands-on CAD work with infrastructure ownership. You will own Perforce Helix and IPLM methodologies, build Python and shell automation, and guide migration from legacy data platforms. The role spans Linux compute environments, EDA tool configuration, documentation and training across distributed semiconductor teams.

Perforce Helix · Methodics IPLM · Cadence Virtuoso +4

• Swindon
• Hybrid
• Lead
• Permanent

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.

Perforce Helix · Methodics IPLM · Cadence Virtuoso +3

• United Kingdom
• £50,000 – £70,000 pa
• Senior

Join a Surrey technical consultancy building custom hardware and software solutions for UK government clients, spanning embedded C/C++, FPGAs, PCB design and signal processing. You will mentor junior engineers, drive new project direction and manage client relationships through reports and presentations. Requires UK nationality due to project sensitivity.

FPGA · VHDL · PCB

• Oldham
• £40,000 – £45,000 pa

Owns reliability testing, failure analysis and lifetime modelling for semiconductor devices, developing and executing test plans and driving root-cause solutions for failure mechanisms. Works across design, test and manufacturing teams to improve product robustness, with programming used to write reliability test programs and handle customer returns.

• Chelmsford

Hands-on role spanning clean-room and office work, owning verification and test across space and science imaging detector projects. You define test flows, commission and script EGSE/OGSE/MGSE equipment, run functional, electrical, mechanical and environmental campaigns to ECSS standards, and train operations staff. Works closely with project, product assurance and manufacturing teams.

MATLAB · Python · Microsoft Excel +6

• Bristol
• On-site
• Mid-level · manages people

Owns the safe, reliable operation of Graphcore's Bristol electronics labs, managing test equipment, lab infrastructure, ESD controls, goods in/out, maintenance planning and technical readiness. Builds and mentors a technician team supporting hardware bring-up, validation, characterisation and product test, working closely with Facilities, Supply Chain, Quality and Hardware Engineering.

• Cambridge
• On-site
• Senior
• Permanent

Design and layout of GaN power ICs using EDA tools, covering schematic capture, analog simulation, chip layout review, PEX and PLS. The role also involves wafer-level and packaged device testing, SPICE model development, and supporting patent and IP management within a growing R&D engineering team.

EDA Tools · SPICE · GaN

• Cambridge
• On-site
• Senior
• Permanent

Define and architect test hardware for GaN power devices and ICs, covering fixtures, sockets, probing, switching and multi-site parallel setups for static, dynamic and mixed-signal measurements. Lead test hardware workstreams from concept to release, write specifications, review designs, and mentor engineers while shaping the test equipment roadmap.

HTRB · HTOL

• Didcot
• Hybrid · 4 days in office
• £41,414 – £58,679 pa
• Senior
• Contract

Develop and maintain HDL firmware for Xilinx FPGAs in Vivado, implementing feedback control, filtering and interlock handling with state machines for magnet power supply controllers. The role covers simulation, verification and on-hardware validation using logic analysers, plus Ethernet-based control interfaces, within a not-for-profit scientific organisation on a major facility upgrade.

Xilinx · Vivado · ADC +7

• Fareham
• £55,000 – £65,000 pa
• Senior

Lead algorithm development for RISC-V-based capacitive touch controllers, owning projects from problem definition and modelling through experimentation, optimisation and validation on real hardware. Work spans sensor physics, mixed-signal electronics and DSP, designing filtering, calibration and noise-rejection algorithms while mentoring junior colleagues.

MATLAB · Python · RISC-V +5

• Fareham
• £33,000 – £38,000 pa
• Junior

Develop and debug embedded C firmware for microcontrollers, support capacitive sensing algorithm development, and use Python for modelling, simulation and data analysis. Work alongside software, hardware and applications engineering teams on new features, investigating performance issues across software and hardware.

Git · SVN · MATLAB +1

• Stirling
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• £40,000 – £65,000 pa
• Senior

Develop, test and debug embedded software for electronics, supporting integration of microprocessors, microcontrollers, FPGAs and SoC devices. Assist with FPGA development including RTL design, simulation and verification using Verilog and VHDL, and perform system-level testing and hardware/software integration for flight-computer solutions.

FPGA · Verilog · VHDL +7

• Fareham
• Senior

Design and implement FPGA functionality in VHDL for advanced embedded communication products, verifying designs through simulation, testing and hardware validation. Work alongside software, electronics, RF and systems engineers across the full product lifecycle, integrating FPGAs with processors and embedded software and resolving system-level issues in existing products.

AMD/Xilinx · Vivado · Embedded Linux +2

• Cambridge
• Hybrid
• £35,000 – £45,000 pa
• Mid-level

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.

AMD Vivado · Xilinx Vivado · Intel Quartus +5

• Whitstable
• On-site
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Hands-on FPGA design role covering the full development lifecycle, from requirements and VHDL design through simulation, verification, synthesis, timing closure and hardware testing. You'll work in a small, cross-disciplinary team on advanced electronic systems for high-reliability applications, with genuine ownership of designs and input into product release.

AMD · Xilinx · Intel +7