Senior Design Engineer

Company: Spectrum IT Recruitment
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Location: Southampton
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you will design and optimize RTL for FPGA and ASIC targets to enable advanced non-terrestrial 5G base stations and satellite-enabled mobile connectivity. You will work within a multidisciplinary team to translate requirements into robust architectures and verify them across the full design lifecycle. You’ll shape high-throughput signal processing hardware and contribute to timing, resource and power optimizations. This is a chance to impact next-generation communications in a cutting-edge, space-enabled environment.

Responsibilities

  • Develop RTL for FPGA/ASIC targets
  • Translate system/algorithm requirements into micro-architectures
  • Create testbenches and verify designs on FPGA platforms
  • Optimize timing, throughput, hardware resources and power
  • Oversee the full design lifecycle from micro-architecture to physical implementation
  • Collaborate with Algorithm, System Architecture and Verification engineers
  • Produce design specifications and technical documentation

Key requirements

  • Expert-level Verilog / SystemVerilog
  • Strong FPGA and/or ASIC design experience
  • Experience with synthesis and timing analysis
  • Knowledge of high-throughput data or signal-processing designs
  • Experience optimizing timing and hardware resources
  • Strong knowledge of industry-standard EDA simulation and synthesis tools
  • Experience delivering complex, integrated digital designs
  • Advantageous: 5G, DSP algorithms, UVM, AMBA, SystemC/C++, PCIe, JESD, Python, AMD/Xilinx FPGA technology
  • Collaborative mindset
  • Clear technical communication
  • Problem-solving under complex constraints
  • Verilog/SystemVerilog
  • FPGA/ASIC design
  • Synthesis and timing analysis

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Posted: October 16th, 2026