Senior Fpga Engineer in Southampton

Overview
Multiple Access Communications Ltd | Full time
Senior FPGA Engineer – Wireless Communications
Southampton, United Kingdom | Posted on 29/07/2025
Areyou looking to further develop your career in a job where youget to use your full range of technical and problem-solvingskills?
Areyou looking to fast-track your path to becoming an expert inwireless communications technology?
Asthe wireless communications market continues to evolve andgrow, our customers come tousto help solve complexproblems.A career at MAC Ltd is going to suit you if youhave a broad electronic engineering skillset, and lovetackling complex challenges.
Life at MAC Ltd
MAC Ltd\’s successis based on finding, training, and mentoring exceptionalelectronic engineers, building a team that\’s able to take onand solve the most difficult engineering problems.
Werequire a wide range of engineering skills and with ourexpert support you will be able to develop these across adiverse range of projects.
Youwill be working as part of an elite team and you will activelyparticipate in all phases of a project lifecycle fromrequirements capture through to implementation and presenting,interacting and developing ideas with the client.
You cantypically expect to work on a number of different projectsduring the course of a year in a well-established and dynamic company.
Your Skills& Experience
Weare particularly looking for degree qualifiedelectronicsengineerswith significant experience in digital design,wireless technology, embedded systems, or software defined radio.
You\’ll have significant
experience
in some orall of the following areas:
FPGA design,including experience in languages such as VHDL,
Verilog andHigh-Level Synthesis Modelling tools such as MATLABand Simulink
Radiocommunications and Digital Signal Processing (DSP) techniques
Software DefinedRadio (SDR) and RF techniques
Software Development
Development ofcommunication waveforms
ArtificialIntelligence (AI) and Machine learning (ML)
And, you\’ll havea rounded
skill set
including:
Able toidentify problems and possible solutions, considers allangles and implementation approaches
Competenttechnical knowledge in variety of disciplines; activelyengaged in learning new ideas
Confident inarticulating problems and solutions to peers and customersin verbal and written form
Experiencein taking responsibility for project components: ensuringawareness and tracking against budget and milestones
Requirements
An electronicsdegree from a top UK university.
Already havefull eligibility to work in the UK.
Eligible forUKSV (SC) security clearance.
Benefits
Opportunities towork on cutting edge technologies to make a real differencein a dynamic and agile environment.
Mentoring fromtalented and experienced world-leading industry experts.
Sharing in thecompany\’s success through MAC Ltd\’s 100% Employee Ownership.
Beautiful ruraloffice setting at the University of Southampton SciencePark ( science- ),a short drive or bus ride from Southampton City Centre.
Competitive salarythat is linked to your performance.
Private medical insurance.
Opportunities forflexible working.
Discounted on-sitegym membership.
Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).
Discounts andoffers on fitness, leisure and lifestyle brands (through ourADS membership).
Cycle to Workscheme to take advantage of savings on bikes and accessories.
Additional paidannual leave for volunteering activities.
MAC Ltd was foundedin **** by Professor Raymond Steele, one of the FoundingFathers of modern-day mobile communications, to tackle theengineering challenges of taking mobile communications froman expensive and luxury item, which was only accessible tobusiness executives and professional users, to the smartphones that we see today that are accessible to everyone.
Heachieved this by hand-picking, training and mentoringexceptional electronic engineers to build a world-class teamthat were able to take on and solve the most difficultengineering problems.
The current owners and seniorleadership of MAC Ltd were part of this early team and wecontinue Professor Steele\’s successful approach today.
Everything we do atMAC Ltd is focussed on the radio interface between wirelessdevices.
This has included developing improved modulationand radio access schemes, improving the ability of devicesto cope with increasing interference, developing radiospectrum sharing approaches and providing products to testand validate radio communication systems.
We have worked onevery generation of mobile phone technology, from the earlyanalogue devices to today\’s 5G smart phones.
We have alsoworked across many sectors including telecommunications,public safety, defence and security.
Our success isbuilt on a culture of diversity and inclusion and bringingtogether people with different experiences, backgrounds,skills, perspectives and life experiences into a cohesiveand supportive team.
This is furtherdemonstrated by converting to an Employee-Owned Trust(EOT) in March ****.
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