Digital Hardware Design Engineer

1 week ago

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom Yoh, A Day & Zimmermann Company Full time £60,000 - £120,000 per year

Senior Digital IC Design Engineer


Cambridge, UK

Competitive salary + benefits | Sponsorship available

Do you enjoy seeing your RTL design come to life on the lab bench?

Are you the kind of engineer who's curious about what happens beyond your block — who wants to
own the full design journey
, not just write code in a corner?

We're partnered with a well-established
mixed-signal semiconductor company
that's looking to hire a
Senior Digital IC Design Engineer
into its Cambridge team. This isn't a narrow RTL-only role. Here, digital is
the core of the chip
, and you'll have
end-to-end involvement
— from concept and architecture, through FPGA emulation and lab bring-up, to silicon.

Why this role stands out

  • You won't just hand off RTL and hope for the best.
  • You'll work across
    analog–digital partitioning
    , fault detection logic, state machines, telemetry, and system control.
  • You'll be in the lab,
    proving your ideas
    on real silicon — not just simulations.
  • You'll develop breadth, not just depth: the
    digital cores are the nexus
    of these mixed-signal chips, tying everything together.

What you'll be doing

  • End-to-end RTL design using
    Verilog / SystemVerilog
  • Designing synchronous and asynchronous state machines and control logic
  • Working on analog/digital partitioning and functional modelling
  • FPGA emulation, lab validation, post-design analysis, and place & route support
  • Collaborating closely with analog, systems, and test teams

What we're looking for

  • 3–8+ years of
    digital IC design
    experience (flexible on seniority)
  • Strong RTL design skills and a solid grasp of asynchronous and synchronous systems
  • Comfortable getting hands-on with lab equipment and oscilloscopes
  • Inquisitive mindset, ownership mentality, and interest in system-level design
  • Familiarity or interest in DFT, synthesis, and P&R flows

Why join?

  • Work on
    real silicon
    where your designs are central to the product.
  • True
    end-to-end ownership
    , not just front-end RTL.
  • Hands-on lab work and exposure to analog/digital interaction.
  • Sponsorship and relocation support available.
  • Opportunity to grow into a
    systems engineering
    role over time (if you want).

Yoh Solutions Ltd,
a Day and Zimmerman Company, are Electronic Engineering recruitment specialists, sourcing high-calibre permanent and interim engineering experts across the globe.

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