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Hardware Engineer

Platform Recruitment
Department:Design
Type:REMOTE
Region:Glasgow, Scotland
Location:Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Experience:Junior
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Job Description

Posted on: September 4, 2026


Hardware Engineer | Edinburgh | £30-40k DOE


We’re looking for an engineer to join a disruptive semiconductor company developing ground breaking technology in a fast-moving environment.


Responsibilities

  • Design, develop and validate high-speed digital electronics, FPGA solutions, embedded software and application software.
  • Build and automate product testing and characterisation using Python, developing repeatable test plans and customer-facing technical reports.
  • Support customers and partners with technical evaluations, demonstrations, training, integration and first-line technical support.
  • Represent the company at customer sites, trade shows and industry events, feeding customer insight back into product development and engineering


Technical Requirements

  • Degree in Electronics Engineering or a related subject, with some relevant industry, internship or project experience.
  • Exposure to electronics design, including schematic capture (e.g. Altium/OrCAD) and hands-on hardware bring-up, debugging and rework.
  • Experience or academic/project exposure to C, Python and FPGA design, with an understanding of software development practices.


Personal Requirements

  • Fast learner and naturally inquisitive, able to quickly understand new technologies and apply them practically.
  • Proactive, reliable and adaptable, with the confidence to work autonomously in a rapidly changing environment.
  • Strong communicator who can translate technical problems between customer engineering teams and internal engineering.
  • Detail-oriented team player with a genuine enthusiasm for engineering and modern development practices, including AI-assisted workflows.


Bonus Skills

  • Experience working across the hardware/software interface, particularly where system constraints and interfaces are critical.
  • Exposure to high-speed digital design or FPGA development.
  • Experience with automated testing, technical documentation, specifications or customer-facing engineering.
  • Comfortable combining hands-on development with customer visits, demonstrations and field engineering, including international travel.


Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with the most bleeding edge technologies
  • Share options
  • 25 days holiday which increases year on year
  • Competitive pension scheme


Ready to truly kickstart your career working on the newest technology in a fast-paced environment? Apply today!


Originally posted on LinkedIn

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