Senior FPGA Engineer - Wireless Communications

Multiple Access Communications Ltd Full time

Senior FPGA Engineer - Wireless Communications

Southampton, United Kingdom Posted on 29/07/2026

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 to identify andsolve complex problems and ideas; considering all angles and implementationsolutionsExcellent technicalknowledge in a range of subjects
  


• Experience in owningproject components, and whole projects; and self-managed and disciplined toknow, adjust and communicate own time and priorities across multiple tasks, andmanage impact on others
  


• Confident inarticulating problems and solutions to peers and customers in verbal andwritten form; and writing and presenting reports on project status, risks &opportunities, to a range of stakeholders.
  


• Being primary pointof contact for customers
  


• Able to provideresource estimates; and engage withcustomers to discover future work and developing proposals and quotations
  


• Supportingcolleague development through guidance, coaching and mentoring
  

Your typical week

Dependingon your project lifecycle and milestones, you can usually expect some or allof:

• Being assigned, and identifying, engineeringtasks including developing code and designing components;
  


• Preparing and reviewing technical reports andspecifications, drawings, calculations and risk reviews
  


• Contributing to, and leading on, progressreporting to the customer
  


• Liaising, attending and contributing to customermeetings; delivering communications for variety of stakeholders
  


• Leading, designing and/or managing projectcomponents
  


• Mentoring colleagues through guidance andcoaching
  


• Contributing to quote and bid documents
  

Requirements

• An electronics degree from a university with a strong reputation for the subject studied .
  


• Already havefull eligibility to work in the UK.
  


• Eligible forUKSV (SC) security clearance.
  

Benefits

The benefits ofworking at MAC Ltd includes:

• 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.
  


• Employee ownership: MAC Ltd is 100% owned by its employees throughan Employee Ownership Trust. When the company succeeds, you share in it throughthe EOT and our profit-sharing scheme.
  


• Competitive salary that islinked to your performance.
  


• Private medical insurance.
  


• Competitive 10% contributory pensionscheme.
  


• Opportunities for flexibleworking around core hours .
  


• Discounts and offers onfitness, leisure and lifestyle brands (through our ADS membership).
  


• Cycle to Work scheme totake advantage of savings on bikes and accessories.
  


• Additional paid annualleave for volunteering activities.
  

MAC Ltd was foundedin 1986 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.

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 2025.