Semiconductor jobs for hardware engineers and architects in the United Kingdom

189 open roles for hardware engineers and architects at 80 companies in the United Kingdom. 155 of them are open to candidates of any nationality; the rest ask for citizenship or a government security check. 18 mention relocation support.

Rebuilt 24 Oct 2026
open roles
189
companies
80
open to any nationality
82%
median stated pay
$74k

Companies hiring

CompanyOpen rolesAny nationalityRelocation
Leonardo166%
Graphcore14100%
Cirrus Logic11100%
Apple9100%
Arm Holdings9100%4
Fractile8100%
AMD6100%
Accelercomm6100%
MBDA UK5100%2
KLA Corporation5100%1
Semtech4100%
General Dynamics40%1
Analog Devices3100%
Quantum Motion3100%
Sydney Quantum Academy3100%

Newest roles

Cambridge Design Partnership

cambridge-design.com
cambridge-design.com • HQ: Cambridge, United Kingdom • Design & Creative • Science & Engineering • Engineering Services • Industrial Design • 201-500 employees • Est. 2009 • Hiring 9, 5 new
HQ: Cambridge, United Kingdom • Design & Creative • Science & Engineering • Engineering Services • Industrial Design • 201-500 employees • Est. 2009 • Hiring 9, 5 new
Cambridge Design Partnership (CDP) is an independent technology and product development consultancy specializing in innovation across the healthcare, consumer, and industrial sectors. Headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom, with additional operations in the United States, the firm combines scientific rigor, industrial design engineering, and human-centered strategies to help global brands and ambitious start-ups bring complex products to market. Established in the early 2000s, CDP deploys multidisciplinary teams covering end-to-end product development - ranging from early discovery, applied science, and electronics and software engineering to regulatory compliance and mass-manufacturing scale-up - with a particularly strong global footprint in drug delivery systems, medical technologies, and sustainable design solutions.
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Design Verification Engineer

≈ $53k – $104k per year (Estimated) • In office (Cambridge, United Kingdom) • GMP / cleanroom
ISO 13485
EU MDR
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Siemens

siemens.com
siemens.com • HQ: Munich, Germany • Rail Transport • Medical Imaging Systems • Building Automation & Controls • Manufacturing & Industrial Software • CAD, PLM & BIM Software • Industrial Automation • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1847 • Trust A • Hiring 1543, 490 new
HQ: Munich, Germany • Rail Transport • Medical Imaging Systems • Building Automation & Controls • Manufacturing & Industrial Software • CAD, PLM & BIM Software • Industrial Automation • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1847 • Trust A • Hiring 1543, 490 new
Siemens is a German technology conglomerate founded in Berlin in 1847 by Werner von Siemens around a telegraph that indicated letters rather than Morse code. After a decade of divestments it now concentrates on industry, infrastructure, transport and healthcare, supplying factory automation and control systems, building and grid technology, trains and signalling, and the Teamcenter and NX design software acquired through a long run of software purchases. The Siemens Xcelerator platform ties hardware to software and digital twins, and the group retains a majority stake in the separately listed medical imaging company Siemens Healthineers.
Jim Hagemann Snabe · Chairman of the Supervisory Board · decision-maker
Ralf Thomas · Chief Financial Officer · decision-maker
Roland Busch · President & Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
Werner von Siemens · Founder · founder
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Junior Product Development Engineer (Electronics)

≈ $44k – $86k per year (Estimated) • Junior • Hybrid (Congleton, United Kingdom) • Junior
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Arm Holdings

arm.com
arm.com • HQ: Cambridge, United Kingdom • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • Semiconductor IP & Chip Design Services • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1990 • Trust A • Hiring 392, 41 new
HQ: Cambridge, United Kingdom • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • Semiconductor IP & Chip Design Services • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1990 • Trust A • Hiring 392, 41 new
Arm Holdings is a British semiconductor and software design company headquartered in Cambridge, England. Rather than manufacturing physical chips directly, Arm designs energy-efficient central processing unit (CPU) architectures and intellectual property (IP), licensing them to major technology partners such as Apple, Qualcomm, Samsung, and Nvidia.
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IP/System Power Analysis and Optimization Engineer

≈ $53k – $104k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid (Manchester, United Kingdom) • Relocation • Bachelor's Degree
Verilog
Perl
SystemC
Python
Chips/EDA
Cadence Voltus
Ansys RedHawk
Synopsys PrimePower
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Senior Firmware Build, Release & CI/CD Engineer

≈ $64k – $113k per year (Estimated) • Senior • Hybrid (Bristol, United Kingdom) • Senior
Python
C++
C++
CMake
DevOps
GitLab CI
Jenkins
Linux
CI/CD
Docker
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MBDA UK

mbdacareers.co.uk
mbdacareers.co.uk • HQ: Stevenage, United Kingdom • Air Defense • Defense Manufacturing • Missiles • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2001 • Trust B • Hiring 213, 30 new
HQ: Stevenage, United Kingdom • Air Defense • Defense Manufacturing • Missiles • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2001 • Trust B • Hiring 213, 30 new
MBDA UK is the British arm of the European missile systems group MBDA, headquartered in Stevenage, England, designing, developing and manufacturing missiles and missile systems for all branches of the UK armed forces and allied nations. MBDA was formed in 2001 from the merger of European missile businesses and is owned by Airbus, BAE Systems and Leonardo; the UK company has primary sites in Stevenage, Bristol and Bolton, corporate offices in London and smaller sites such as Henlow. It recruits systems, software, test and manufacturing engineers, project managers, procurement and security staff, and runs graduate, apprenticeship and placement programmes.
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Manufacturing Electronics Engineer

$60k per year • Hybrid (Bolton, United Kingdom) • Full-Time
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Hardware in the Loop Engineer - Graduate Programme 2027

≈ $48k – $94k per year (Estimated) • Junior • Hybrid (Stevenage, United Kingdom) • Full-Time • Junior
MATLAB
C++
MATLAB
Simulink
DevOps
Linux
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Andrew Alliance

andrewalliance.com
andrewalliance.com • HQ: Geneva, Switzerland • Diagnostic Tests & IVD • Laboratory Equipment • Laboratory & Pharmaceutical Robotics • 5000+ employees • Hiring 144, 8 new
HQ: Geneva, Switzerland • Diagnostic Tests & IVD • Laboratory Equipment • Laboratory & Pharmaceutical Robotics • 5000+ employees • Hiring 144, 8 new
Andrew Alliance is a laboratory automation company that makes the Andrew+ pipetting robot, the Pipette+ connected pipetting system and OneLab software for designing and running liquid handling protocols, with its base in Geneva, Switzerland. Part of Waters Corporation since 2019, it also sells connected devices such as Extraction+, Heater-Shaker+, Peltier+ and Magnet+ modules and microplate grippers for life science and pharmaceutical labs. The board linked to this record is the Waters international careers board, which recruits account managers, software and platform engineers, finance analysts, auditors and trade compliance specialists.
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Principal Electronics Design Engineer

≈ $77k – $138k per year (Estimated) • Lead • Hybrid (United Kingdom) • Principal
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gd.com • HQ: Reston, United States • Aircraft Manufacturing • Armored Vehicles • Naval Systems • C4ISR • 5000+ employees • Est. 1899 • NYSE: GD • Hiring 82, 10 new
HQ: Reston, United States • Aircraft Manufacturing • Armored Vehicles • Naval Systems • C4ISR • 5000+ employees • Est. 1899 • NYSE: GD • Hiring 82, 10 new
General Dynamics is an American defence and aerospace group whose predecessor built submarines from 1899, and it is unusual among primes for owning a large commercial business alongside its military ones. Its four segments are Marine Systems, which builds Virginia and Columbia class submarines and Navy destroyers, Combat Systems, which makes the Abrams tank and armoured vehicles, Aerospace, which builds Gulfstream business jets, and Technologies, its government IT and mission services arm. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia and listed on the New York Stock Exchange, its submarine programmes carry a backlog measured in decades.
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Principal FPGA Engineer (VHDL)

$87k – $114k per year • Lead • Hybrid (Hastings, United Kingdom) • Relocation • Full-Time • Citizenship or vetting required • Senior
VHDL
Python
DevOps
Git
Chips/EDA
Xilinx Vivado
Siemens QuestaSim
SpaceTech
DO-254
SysML
MBSE
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Senior Hardware Systems Engineer

$61k – $80k per year • Senior • Hybrid (Crumlin, United Kingdom) • Full-Time • Citizenship or vetting required • Senior
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Skills these roles ask for

Python 43Verilog 39SystemVerilog 38C++ 31VHDL 24MATLAB 20Linux 14Machine Learning 11UVM 10Perl 9Git 9Simulink 7IBM DOORS 7Verification & Validation 7Altium Designer 6Xilinx Vivado 5

Where the roles are

Bristol 36London 28Cambridge 26Edinburgh 20Newport 7Oxford 7Southampton 5Luton 5Manchester 5Newbury 4

Questions

Can a foreigner apply for these roles?

155 of the 189 roles here state no citizenship or security-check demand. A role that does says so in its advert, and the card marks it.

Which companies hire most chip and hardware engineers?

Leonardo (16), Graphcore (14), Cirrus Logic (11), Apple (9), Arm Holdings (9).

Which roles count here?

Every hardware, chip design, embedded, electrical and semiconductor process role at any employer, and the engineering, science, technician and IT roles of the semiconductor companies - chip designers, fabs and foundries, equipment makers, photonics. Their sales, finance and office roles are left out.

How fresh is this?

Every role is re-checked on the employer's own careers board at least every 48 hours, and the page is rebuilt every night.

Source: 189 live postings on employers' careers boardsUpdated 24 Oct 2026MethodologyJSONCC BY-SA 4.0