62 jobs for “Research Scientist (Semiconductors)”
Teledyne FLIR
Assembly and test operator role ensuring timely throughput of imaging devices while meeting quality requirements. Duties include microscope inspection, setting up and running tools, maintaining production records and reporting progress to the line manager, working in a cleanroom on alternating double day shifts.
University of Southampton · 501–1000 people · University
Investigates 2D semiconductors and ferroelectric materials to build non-volatile memory that co-locates storage and processing for low-power AI hardware. Combines materials characterisation, interface engineering and device fabrication at the Southampton Nanofabrication Centre, with short research visits to Cambridge and NPL. Based in the 2D-MINDs team and the ECS Centre for Neuromorphic Technologies.
Raman Spectroscopy · Photoluminescence · AFM +2
Graphcore
Contribute to fundamental and applied AI research, generating ideas, designing experiments and translating them into scalable implementations using PyTorch or JAX. The role emphasises lower-level programming (C++/CUDA/Triton) and hardware-aware optimisation, with work spanning efficient training and inference, world models, reinforcement learning and life sciences, and results published at NeurIPS, ICML and ICLR.
PyTorch · JAX · XLA +1
Graphcore
Contribute to fundamental and applied AI research, generating ideas, designing experiments and translating them into scalable implementations. Work spans efficient training and inference, world models, reinforcement learning and life sciences, with a focus on hardware-aware algorithms and low-level performance optimisation in C++/CUDA/Triton. Collaborate with silicon and software engineers and publish at NeurIPS, ICML and ICLR.
PyTorch · JAX · CUDA +3
Cambridge GaN Devices · 11–50 people · Series B
Senior leadership role owning the packaging function for GaN power semiconductors, combining people leadership with hands-on design of wirebond, flip chip and embedded packages. Involves multiphysics simulation, supplier development, qualification testing and roadmap input, working with internal teams and overseas partners from the Cambridge office.
GaN
Lumai
Owns a Python-based performance and power modelling framework predicting how photonic AI hardware runs real inference workloads, covering compute engines, interconnect, memory and bridge interfaces. Characterises operators against hardware, RTL or emulation, builds compiler-agnostic MLIR interfaces and runs benchmarks to give architecture and compiler teams a shared source of truth.
Python · MLIR · UL Procyon +7
Newton Colmore · 11–50 people
Own the full product lifecycle for complex instruments used in defence and security, from concept through to prototype production. Day-to-day work centres on HDL design with VHDL or SystemVerilog, using toolchains such as Vivado or Quartus, running simulations and testbenches, and performing hardware-level debugging. Requires UK security clearance.
Vivado · Quartus
Platform Recruitment
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
Langham Recruitment · 1–10 people · Not available
Designs and simulates photonic components and Photonic Integrated Circuits for next-generation networking applications, working with foundries and external partners on fabrication and delivery. Builds experimental test environments and measurement methods to characterise packaged photonic devices, analysing results to drive performance improvements. Requires hands-on optical lab work and PIC design using tools such as Lumerical or IPKISS.
Lumerical · IPKISS
Hunter Selection
Home-based field service role travelling worldwide to customer sites to repair, maintain, install and commission semiconductor manufacturing equipment, including ion implantation, diffusion/CVD furnaces and etch tools. Engineers also deliver on-site process support, troubleshooting and customer training, with extended periods away from home.
Ion Implantation · Diffusion Furnaces · CVD Furnaces +3
Beautiful Recruitment
Provide technical and engineering support to Epitaxy Shift Equipment Engineers and Technicians, maintaining and troubleshooting MOVPE and MOCVD equipment including Veeco and Aixtron reactors. Duties cover preventative maintenance, chamber strip/clean, trap and gas cylinder changes using SCBA, equipment upgrades and installations, plus supervising external contractors in a semiconductor cleanroom environment.
Veeco · Aixtron · Microsoft Office +3
Copello
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
Morgan McKinley
Lead the architecture and full lifecycle delivery of high-throughput FPGA subsystems for next-generation medical device platforms, from requirements through RTL implementation, ASIC bring-up and lab validation. The role combines hands-on SystemVerilog/Verilog design using AMD/Xilinx toolchains with technical leadership, mentoring mid/senior engineers and championing CI/CD automation.
AMD · Xilinx · Vivado +3
Teledyne FLIR
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
University of Warwick
Develops medium-voltage solid-state transformer cells for hyperscale AI data centres and net-zero grids, tackling high-frequency power conversion, compact magnetic links and electrical-thermal degradation under high-dv/dt stress. Combines multi-physics finite-element modelling in ANSYS/COMSOL with experimental validation in a high-voltage power electronics lab, culminating in a scaled hardware prototype.
ANSYS · COMSOL · FPGA +1
