Semiconductor Jobs in Southampton

• Southampton
• £37,369 – £39,560 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

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

• Southampton
• £30,000 – £75,000 pa
• Mid-level

Hands-on FPGA Engineer role in Southampton, owning the full FPGA lifecycle from design and VHDL simulation to system-level integration and verification. You'll work with SoC devices such as Zynq UltraScale+ and toolchains like Vivado, Quartus and ModelSim, collaborating with system and electronic engineers on high-reliability products.

Vivado · Quartus · ModelSim +1

• Southampton
• On-site
• £30,000 – £35,000 pa
• Mid-level
• Permanent · Flexible

Manufacture specialist optical devices across a production facility and university cleanroom, running wafer and chip-level processes such as photolithography, sputtering, furnace processing, dicing, polishing and inspection. Maintain production logs, quality documentation and cleanroom standards while reporting process issues and supporting continuous improvement in an advanced photonics and quantum technology setting.

• Southampton
• £65,000 – £85,000 pa
• Senior

Verification of RTL implementations to ensure designs meet required standards before deployment, working with SystemVerilog and UVM in a Linux environment. The role sits within an expanding electronics manufacturer and involves scripting in Python, TCL or Bash alongside digital ASIC/FPGA verification work.

SystemVerilog · UVM · Linux +3

• Whiteley
• £50,000 – £80,000 pa
• Senior

Design and optimise capacitive sensing architectures, develop and verify RTL in Verilog/SystemVerilog, and write embedded C/C++ software for sensing and signal processing. Lead silicon bring-up, debugging and validation across analogue, digital and firmware domains, collaborating with global teams on HMI solutions.

Verilog · SystemVerilog · C/C++ +7

• Southampton
• On-site
• £30,000 – £36,000 pa

Joining the Device Processing Team, you will work in the cleanroom and production site fabricating devices for customers using metal sputtering, furnace processing, photolithography, acid etch, wafer dicing, polishing and poling, plus inspection and characterisation. You will work to production schedules meeting customer timescales and quality standards, with some general administration.

SEM · Profilometers

• Whitchurch
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• £70,000 – £80,000 pa
• Senior
• Permanent

Hands-on staff-level role in a specialist embedded software team, owning low-level firmware and software for advanced capacitive sensing products across the full lifecycle from concept to production. Involves bare metal development in a pre-RTOS environment, Embedded C and Python, DSP and IC interaction including IC bring-up and pre-tapeout validation, plus architecture decisions and mentoring.

• Fareham
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• £70,000 – £75,000 pa
• Senior
• Permanent

Support the integration of semiconductor products into customer devices, testing internal developments and providing direct technical support for design-in activities. Design and build hardware tooling, coordinate project tasks, and act as a technical interface to customers, including international travel. The role also carries technical leadership across multiple teams, mentoring engineers and driving autonomous development.

• Southampton
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• £70,000 – £80,000 pa
• Senior

Works across the full FPGA development lifecycle, from architecture and VHDL/Verilog design through simulation, verification, timing closure and lab-based hardware testing. Involves high-speed digital interfaces, DSP and SoC platforms such as Xilinx Zynq, within a multidisciplinary engineering team. Open to mid and senior level engineers.

MATLAB · Simulink · Xilinx Zynq +7