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# Senior Design Engineer

- **Company:** Spectrum IT Recruitment
- **Location:** Southampton, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, C++ (Programming Language), Software Design Documents, Digital Electronics, Electronic Design Automation, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Hardware Design, Python (Programming Language), PCI Express, Signal Processing, Static Timing Analysis, SystemC, SystemVerilog, Verilog, Data Processing, Scripting, Application Specific Integrated Circuits, Fpga Hardware, Backend, Information Technology
- **Published:** September 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2840580015-senior-design-engineer

## About the Role

* Strong RTL design experience using Verilog and/or SystemVerilog
 * Proven background developing complex FPGA and ASIC designs
 * Experience optimising digital hardware for high-throughput signal or data processing
 * Knowledge of synthesis, timing analysis, and power optimisation techniques
 * Strong understanding of simulation and synthesis using industry-standard EDA tools
 * Experience producing technical design documentation
 * Excellent collaboration skills with multidisciplinary engineering teams
 * Experience working within Agile or structured hardware development lifecycles, * Communications or wireless signal processing
 * Error correction, channel estimation, equalisation, or beamforming algorithms
 * AMBA bus protocols
 * UVM verification methodologies
 * C++ or SystemC modelling
 * High-speed interfaces such as PCIe or JESD
 * Python or other scripting languages
 * FPGA development using AMD/Xilinx devices
 * ASIC backend flows and implementation tools

## Description

We're looking for an experienced Senior Design Engineer to join a team developing cutting-edge communications technology that will help shape the future of global connectivity.

This is an opportunity to work on next-generation 5G non-terrestrial networks developing digital hardware for satellite-based communications systems that will play a key role in delivering worldwide mobile coverage.

Working as part of a highly skilled engineering team, you'll be involved in the design and implementation of high-performance FPGA and ASIC solutions, taking products from architecture through to validation on the latest space-qualified hardware platforms., * Translating system and algorithm requirements into RTL micro-architectures

 * Designing and implementing RTL using Verilog/SystemVerilog for FPGA and ASIC targets
 * Creating testbenches and supporting functional verification
 * Deploying and validating designs on FPGA development platforms
 * Optimising designs for performance, timing, power, and resource utilisation
 * Producing high-quality technical documentation
 * Collaborating across architecture, verification, physical implementation, and integration teams
 * Contributing to continuous improvement of engineering processes and design methodologies


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