Semiconductor Jobs

• Bristol

Build and maintain test systems for advanced AI hardware platforms, covering preproduction test across system and board-level products. Define test methods, specify equipment and automate testing for high-speed serial links, high-current power supplies and PCBA debug, working closely with silicon, firmware and production teams.

Python · LabVIEW · Ethernet +4

• Bristol
• Senior

Hands-on role owning reliability of AI compute hardware from lab bring-up to data centre deployment. You will diagnose failures across server blades, racks, power, thermal, network and BIOS/BMC issues, lead root cause analysis and improve hardware diagnostics while guiding junior engineers.

BIOS · BMC

• Edinburgh
• On-site
• Entry level
• Internship

Join a collaborative Edinburgh team developing low-power analog and power-management IP for highly integrated mixed-signal ICs. The intern contributes to architecture, transistor-level design, simulation and verification of DC/DC converter IP such as buck, boost and buck-boost topologies, including analog sub-circuits like error amplifiers, comparators and gate drivers. Work spans behavioural modelling, layout review and potentially laboratory silicon evaluation.

Cadence Virtuoso · Spectre · SIMPLIS +2

• Edinburgh
• Senior

Implements and verifies digital logic for mixed-signal SoCs used in high-performance power systems, covering RTL development, synthesis, static timing analysis and DFT insertion. Works with analog, firmware and validation teams on integration, silicon bring-up and lab debug, with scope to improve methodology and automation.

Genus · Innovus · Tempus +4

• Bristol
• £45,000 pa
• Entry level
• Permanent

Two-year graduate programme rotating through manufacturing operations teams focused on product test, supporting silicon package assembly, PCBA production, component selection and BoM management. You'll analyse manufacturing and product performance data, investigate issues and help shape tests, working with colleagues in the UK, Taiwan and India.

Python · Linux · Bash +1

• Bristol
• £2,500 pm
• Entry level
• Internship

A 12-week summer internship working on the electronic hardware behind AI compute platforms, focusing on either Hardware Design (schematic and circuit design, PCB development, board bring-up, lab testing) or Signal Integrity (high-speed links like PCIe and Ethernet, DDR memory interfaces, simulation and measurement). Interns work on a scoped design, analysis, validation or debugging task with guidance from Staff Hardware Engineers and Team Leads, using tools such as Mentor Expedition, Ansys HFSS and Keysight ADS.

Mentor Expedition · Ansys HFSS · Keysight ADS +3

• Bristol
• £2,500 pm
• Entry level
• Internship

Join one of four specialist silicon teams—logical design, verification, physical design or design for test—contributing to real AI chip development over a 12-week summer placement. You'll work with industry-standard EDA tools on tasks such as RTL design, SOC integration, verification methods or physical implementation, with support from experienced engineers.

EDA Tools

• Bristol

Integrate IP and subsystems into top-level SoC designs, maintaining build and configuration environments while running synthesis, linting, CDC/RDC and timing checks. Work closely with verification and physical design teams on clean interface hand-offs, debug integration issues across hierarchies, and improve automation flows using Python, Tcl, SystemVerilog or VHDL.

SystemVerilog · VHDL · Python +1

• Bristol
• On-site
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Contribute technically to next-generation AI superchips, delivering sign-off-quality layouts in leading-edge process technologies. Work spans floorplanning, synthesis, place and route, CTS, timing analysis, physical verification and flow/tool development in Tcl and Python, collaborating closely with RTL, verification, DFT, architecture and packaging teams. Engineers are trusted to own their designs and improve flows, methodologies and infrastructure.

Tcl · Python · GDSII +7

• Bristol
• Director · manages people

Lead the Bristol post-silicon validation team, bringing up new AI SoCs by running pre-production software on fresh silicon and proving quality, reliability and functionality before production. Drive cross-domain debug across silicon, firmware, OS and platform, and scale validation through emulation, prototyping and automation.

Linux