Semiconductor Jobs

• Bristol

Develop and deploy board and PCBA hardware tests to expose manufacturing defects in advanced circuit boards, taking tests from design analysis through to factory and field support. Build boundary scan and embedded functional tests, assess PCB testability and failure mechanisms, and work with Hardware Design and contract manufacturers to resolve hardware problems.

Boundary Scan · Automated Optical Inspection · Automated X-ray Inspection

• Bristol

You will build and maintain test systems for AI hardware platforms, defining test methods, specifying equipment and automating checks for high-speed serial links, high-current power supplies and PCBA debug. Embedded in the Hardware Test team, you work closely with silicon, firmware and production groups, improving coverage and transferring robust solutions into production.

Ethernet · PCIe · Python +4

• Stevenage
• Hybrid
• £65 ph
• Senior
• Contract

Design, simulate and implement DSP algorithms for advanced communications and sensing systems, and develop, test and verify FPGA firmware in VHDL and/or Verilog. Working from system requirements and functional specifications, you support hardware integration and debugging within a multidisciplinary engineering team.

Xilinx Versal AI Engines · LTE

• Edinburgh
• Hybrid
• Lead · manages people
• Permanent

Lead verification of complex mixed-signal ICs across the full development cycle, from concept and verification planning through implementation, execution and release. Develop UVM and formal testbench architectures, define coverage and closure metrics, debug gate-level simulations, and mentor junior engineers while leading IP or SoC verification efforts.

UVM · SystemVerilog · Makefile +7

• Oxford
• Lead · manages people

Lead a three-person electronics team within the Systems group, acting as a player-coach with roughly 60% leadership and 40% hands-on design. Own the electronics roadmap for quantum systems, from schematic capture and PCB layout through board and system-level test, including mixed-signal, high-speed digital and QPU drive architecture, while moving prototypes to rack-ready production.

Altium · Jira · Smartsheet +7

• Oxford
• Hybrid
• Senior

Owns the full lifecycle of electrical reliability fixes on operational trapped-ion quantum computers, from triaging and root-causing control and drive-electronics faults to designing, prototyping and retrofitting permanent solutions. Works across Operations, Science and Manufacturing on fleet-wide upgrades, standardising hardware and building telemetry to reduce downtime.

Altium · ADC · DAC +2

• Cambridge
• On-site
• Lead
• Permanent

Hands-on technical lead for RF subsystem design, simulation and validation, covering circuits such as LNAs, PAs, filters and duplexers. Owns performance, quality and delivery against system architecture, runs design reviews and verification (S-parameters, NF, phase noise, EVM, ACPR), and mentors RF engineers while working with the System Architect and manufacturing teams.

• Cambridge
• On-site
• £45,000 – £55,000 pa
• Mid-level

Own significant blocks of RTL from specification through implementation, verification and into working hardware, focused on physical layer design in the communications space. Work alongside senior and principal engineers on digital RF and fixed-point DSP, with hands-on lab time on AMD/Xilinx FPGA platforms. A new role in a small, established team with low attrition.

AMD · Xilinx · MATLAB

• Derby
• On-site
• £55,000 – £60,000 pa
• Lead
• Permanent

Lead the full FPGA development lifecycle, architecting systems for new secure communications products, capturing requirements, defining module interfaces and building test benches. Work with VHDL, TCL, Riviera Pro or QuestaSim and version control alongside a multidisciplinary team, reporting to the Head of FPGA Development.

Riviera Pro · QuestaSim · Git +1

• Lincoln
• On-site
• £52,000 – £62,000 pa
• Senior
• Permanent

Lead FPGA design, implementation and verification for RF signal processing and high-throughput systems, working on AMD/Xilinx RFSoC and Intel platforms with VHDL, SystemVerilog and MATLAB/Simulink workflows. The role sits within an Electronic Warfare operations group, supporting lab-based integration and test with RF instrumentation while mentoring junior engineers and shaping requirements with stakeholders.

AMD · Xilinx RFSoC · Zynq UltraScale+ +5

• Guildford
• £44,000 – £47,000 pa
• Entry level

Graduates simulate and implement signal, image or data processing algorithms in VHDL for FPGAs, design PCBs with SoCs, high-speed network interfaces and analogue/RF filtering, and perform schematic capture in OrCAD. The role also covers managing PCB fabrication and assembly subcontractors, writing test firmware and developing Linux device drivers, within a consultancy serving government and technology clients.

FPGA · VHDL · OrCAD +3

• Lincoln
• Hybrid
• £60,000 – £70,000 pa
• Lead
• Permanent

Lead the design and delivery of advanced FPGA architectures for RF signal processing, high-speed data handling and real-time DSP on a large System-of-Systems programme. Work hands-on with AMD/Xilinx RFSoCs and Intel FPGAs, VHDL/SystemVerilog, embedded C and Vivado/Quartus, acting as technical expert across cross-functional teams.

AMD · Xilinx RFSoC · Zynq UltraScale+ +7

• Oxford
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Own the embedded software bringing a novel optical AI accelerator to life: Linux kernel and bare-metal device drivers, firmware for control processors, and deterministic RTOS control tasks. Lead board support package bring-up on new custom silicon revisions, debugging with JTAG, scopes and logic analysers, and set the embedded team's coding standards and test methodology.

Linux · JTAG · SWD +3

• Oxford
• Hybrid
• Junior
• Permanent

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.

FreeRTOS · Zephyr · JTAG +7

• Farnborough

Design, develop and test embedded software and firmware for specialist engineering applications, contributing across the full lifecycle from research and prototyping to validation and product development. Work within a multidisciplinary team spanning software, FPGA and hardware engineering, with opportunities to broaden expertise across FPGA, DSP, electronics and RF technologies.

Vivado · Vitis · ModelSim +3