Engineer Summer Placement - 2027 in Southampton

Multiple Access Communications Ltd | Full time

Southampton, United Kingdom

Applications closing date: Friday 6 November at 16:00.

Areyou looking for a career where you get to use your full range of technical andproblem-solving skills?

Life at MAC Ltd

MAC Ltd’s success is based on finding, training,and mentoring exceptional electronic engineers, building a team that’s able totake on and solve the most difficult engineering problems. We require a wide range of engineering skillsand with our expert support you will be able to develop these across a diverserange of projects. You will be working as part of an elite team and you willactively participate in all phases of a project lifecycle.

YourSkills & Experience

We are looking for candidates with an interest in andenthusiasm for wireless technology, signal processing and embedded systems. You will be engaged on a project focused on innovative wirelesstechnologies. This could include FPGA design, modelling using MATLAB and Simulink,digital signal processing on software defined radios, waveform development andartificial intelligence and machine learning. Yourdegree course will be giving you experience insome or all of the following areas:

• FPGA design, including experience in languagessuch as VHDL, Verilog and High-Level Synthesis
  
• Modellingtools such as MATLAB and Simulink
• Radio communications and Digital SignalProcessing (DSP) techniques
• Software Defined Radio (SDR) and RF techniques
• Software Development
• Development of communication waveforms
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machinelearning (ML)

Andyou’ll have a rounded skill set including:

• Able to take adefined problem and solve with guidance from colleagues
• Able to apply your course knowledge and demonstrate emerging technical competence
• Good personal timemanagement.
• Demonstrablecommunication skills, able to explain technical problems to peers

Requirements

• Must be in the penultimate year of anelectronics degree from a university with a strong reputation for the subject studied.
• Already have full eligibility to work in the UK.
• Eligible for UKSV (SC) security clearance, including a minimum of 5 yearspermanent residency in the UK .

The benefits of working at MAC Ltd include:

• Opportunities to work on cutting edge technologies to make a realdifference in a dynamic and agile environment.
• Mentoring from talented and experienced world-leading industry experts.
• Beautiful rural officesetting at the University of Southampton Science Park ( https://www.science-park.co.uk/ ), a short drive or bus ridefrom Southampton City Centre.

MAC Ltd was founded in 1986 byProfessor Raymond Steele, one of the Founding Fathers of modern-day mobilecommunications, to tackle the engineering challenges of taking mobilecommunications from an expensive and luxury item, which was only accessible tobusiness executives and professional users, to the smart phones that we seetoday that are accessible to everyone.

He achieved this by hand-picking,training and mentoring exceptional electronic engineers to build a world classteam that were able to take on and solve the most difficult engineeringproblems. The current owners and senior leadership of MAC Ltd were part of thisearly team and we continue Professor Steele’s successful approach today.

Everything we do at MAC Ltd is focussed on the radio interface between wireless devices. This has included developingimproved modulation and radio access schemes, improving the ability of devicesto cope with increasing interference, developing radio spectrum sharingapproaches and providing products to test and validate radio communicationsystems. We have worked on every generation of mobile phone technology, fromthe early analogue devices to today’s 5G smart phones. We have also workedacross many sectors, including telecommunications, public safety, defence andsecurity.

Our success is built on a culture ofdiversity and inclusion and bringing together people with different experiences,backgrounds, skills, perspectives and life experiences into a cohesive andsupportive team. This is further demonstrated by converting to anEmployee-Owned Trust (EOT) in March 2025.