Advanced Packaging Design Engineer | Flexible Hours & Benefits

Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult; Newport; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 59,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus scheme

Life Assurance 4x salary

Pension 5% employer / 10% employee

28 days leave + 8 bank holidays

Private medical insurance

Eye/Dental cashback

Professional membership paid

Flexible core hours 10-4

EV & Cycle to work

Job summary

Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult is seeking a Semiconductor Package Electrical Design Engineer to advance next-generation packaging technologies.

You will design, model and validate electrical interfaces for 2.5D/3D and heterogeneous integration, collaborating with mechanical, thermal, and assembly teams to deliver high-performance, manufacturable solutions across AI, RF, photonics and power electronics.

Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or related discipline.
• Experience in electronic package design and RF/high-speed digital design.
• Strong understanding of SI/PI and electromagnetic concepts.

Responsibilities

• Develop electrical designs for advanced semiconductor packages, interposers, substrates and heterogeneous integration platforms.
• Design and optimise high-speed digital and RF interconnects from die-to-die, die-to-package and package-to-board levels.
• Perform SI, PI and electromagnetic analysis to ensure robust electrical performance.
• Define package stack-ups, routing architectures, bump maps and interconnect structures.
• Develop simulation models and perform electrical characterisation using industry-standard tools.
• Support design rule development and package co-design activities with customers, foundries, substrate suppliers and assembly partners.
• Correlate simulation results with laboratory measurements and identify opportunities for design improvement.
• Contribute to customer projects, collaborative R&D programmes and technology demonstrators.
• Generate technical reports, design documentation and customer-facing presentations.

Skills

Electronic package design

Electrical interface design

High frequency RF design

High-speed digital design

Analytical thinking

Education

Electrical/Electronic Engineering degree

Tools

Ansys HFSS

Siwave

Cadence Allegro

Siemens Xpedition

CST Studio Suite

Keysight ADS

Job description

Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult is seeking a Semiconductor Package Electrical Design Engineer to advance next-generation packaging technologies.

You will design, model and validate electrical interfaces for 2.5D/3D and heterogeneous integration, collaborating with mechanical, thermal, and assembly teams to deliver high-performance, manufacturable solutions across AI, RF, photonics and power electronics.