Senior FPGA Engineer - Wireless Communications

Are
you looking to further develop your career in a job where you
get to use your full range of technical and problem-solving
skills? 

Are
you looking to fast-track your path to becoming an expert in
wireless communications technology?

As
the wireless communications market continues to evolve and
grow, our customers come to us to help solve complex
problems. A career at MAC Ltd is going to suit you if you
have a broad electronic engineering skillset, and love
tackling complex challenges. 

Life at MAC Ltd

MAC Ltd’s success
is based on finding, training, and mentoring exceptional
electronic engineers, building a team that’s able to take on
and solve the most difficult engineering problems.   We
require a wide range of engineering skills and with our
expert support you will be able to develop these across a
diverse range of projects.

You
will be working as part of an elite team and you will actively
participate in all phases of a project lifecycle from
requirements capture through to implementation and presenting,
interacting and developing ideas with the client. You can
typically expect to work on a number of different projects
during the course of a year in a well-established and dynamic company.

You’ll have significant experience in some or
all of the following areas:

• FPGA design,
  including experience in languages such as VHDL,
  
• Verilog and
  High-Level Synthesis Modelling tools such as MATLAB
  and Simulink
  
• Radio
  communications and Digital Signal Processing (DSP) techniques
  
• Software Defined
  Radio (SDR) and RF techniques
  
• Software Development
  
• Development of
  communication waveforms
  
• Artificial
  Intelligence (AI) and Machine learning (ML)
  

And, you’ll have
a rounded skill set including:

• Able to
  identify problems and possible solutions, considers all
  angles and implementation approaches
  
• Competent
  technical knowledge in variety of disciplines; actively
  engaged in learning new ideas
  
• Excellent
  time management
  
• Confident in
  articulating problems and solutions to peers and customers
  in verbal and written form
  
• Experience
  in taking responsibility for project components: ensuring
  awareness and tracking against budget and milestones
  

• An electronics
  degree from a top UK university.
  
• Already have
  full eligibility to work in the UK.
  
• Eligible for
  UKSV (SC) security clearance.
  

• Opportunities to
  work on cutting edge technologies to make a real difference
  in a dynamic and agile environment.
  
• Mentoring from
  talented and experienced world-leading industry experts.
  
• Sharing in the
  company’s success through MAC Ltd’s 100% Employee Ownership.
  
• Beautiful rural
  office setting at the University of Southampton Science
  Park ( science-park.co.uk ),
  a short drive or bus ride from Southampton City Centre.
  
• Competitive salary
  that is linked to your performance.
  
• Employee profit
  sharing scheme.
  
• Private medical insurance.
  
• Competitive
  contributory pension scheme.
  
• Opportunities for
  flexible working.
  
• Discounted on-site
  gym membership.
  
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).​​
  
• Discounts and
  offers on fitness, leisure and lifestyle brands (through our
  ADS membership).
  
• Cycle to Work
  scheme to take advantage of savings on bikes and accessories.
  
• Additional paid
  annual leave for volunteering activities.
  

Company Background

He
achieved this by hand-picking, training and mentoring
exceptional electronic engineers to build a world-class team
that were able to take on and solve the most difficult
engineering problems. The current owners and senior
leadership of MAC Ltd were part of this early team and we
continue Professor Steele’s successful approach today.

Everything we do at
MAC Ltd is focussed on the radio interface between wireless
devices. This has included developing improved modulation
and radio access schemes, improving the ability of devices
to cope with increasing interference, developing radio
spectrum sharing approaches and providing products to test
and validate radio communication systems. We have worked on
every generation of mobile phone technology, from the early
analogue devices to today’s 5G smart phones. We have also
worked across many sectors including telecommunications,
public safety, defence and security.

Our success is
built on a culture of diversity and inclusion and bringing
together people with different experiences, backgrounds,
skills, perspectives and life experiences into a cohesive
and supportive team.   This is further
demonstrated by converting to an Employee-Owned Trust
(EOT) in March 2025.