131 jobs
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.
Shorterm Group Cambridge £45,000 – £65,000 pa
Hands-on product development role spanning the full electronics lifecycle, from requirements and circuit design through PCB layout, manufacture, integration, testing and validation. You'll design analogue and digital circuits, manage PCB fabrication with external suppliers, and debug prototype hardware while collaborating closely with software, optics and mechanical engineers on advanced sensing and measurement systems.
Morson Edge Edinburgh £51 – £70 ph
Develops firmware and FPGA designs for next-generation surveillance radar systems, covering requirement capture, architecture definition, design verification and integration with hardware and software. Works closely with mixed-discipline teams, mentors junior engineers and helps shape firmware processes across UK-wide delivery teams. Based on-site in Edinburgh with some travel flexibility.
Morson Edge Basildon £55 – £74 ph
Design, develop and verify FPGA-based firmware in VHDL for advanced sensing and embedded systems, spanning the full product lifecycle from concept to early production. Work within a multidisciplinary team on high-speed FPGA and SoC development, producing documentation, test and integration plans, and supporting hardware/software system integration.
Huber+Suhner Polatis Cambridge
Design, verify and validate FPGA solutions for optical networking products, implementing VHDL logic on Xilinx Artix-7 devices using Vivado. Work spans requirements capture, test benches, timing closure, CDC analysis and lab bring-up with logic analysers, collaborating closely with electronics and software engineers.
Theo James Recruitment Newton Aycliffe £53,350 pa
Multi-skilled maintenance role in a specialist semiconductor manufacturing environment, covering planned and preventative maintenance, breakdown response and electrical, electronic and mechanical fault finding. You will drive equipment improvements, support continuous improvement and structured problem-solving, liaise with vendors and train fellow technicians and apprentices on a 4-day, 12-hour day shift pattern.
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.
Octagon Group Andover £40,000 – £45,000 pa
Hands-on maintenance engineering role in an ISO 7 semiconductor assembly and test facility, covering scheduled preventative maintenance, fault investigation and repairs. Involves servicing HVAC, HEPA filtration and LEV systems, supporting utilities such as compressed air, nitrogen and power, and coordinating external service engineers alongside Production, Process Engineering and Quality.
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.
Enterprise Recruitment Towcester £60,000 – £65,000 pa
This role involves hands-on engineering support for production operations, maintaining and improving epitaxy equipment, and driving continuous improvement initiatives. You will coordinate maintenance, support equipment upgrades, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high equipment uptime and compliance with safety standards.
Redline Group Luton £50,000 – £65,000 pa
Designs electronic products for major OEMs across sectors including automotive, defence, medical and space, working largely from home. The role centres on mixed analogue and digital design with microcontrollers, schematic capture (ideally Altium) and communication protocols such as CAN, Ethernet, RS485 and USB, with FPGA/VHDL experience a plus. You will design for manufacture, work to deadlines and communicate directly with customers.
