Graduate FPGA Engineer - 2027

Multiple Access Communications Ltd.; Southampton; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee ownership

Mentoring from experts

Offices at Science Park

Job summary

MAC Ltd is offering a graduate role in electronics engineering, based in Southampton. The role provides exposure to cutting-edge wireless technologies and a diverse project portfolio.

You will work within a talented team, focusing on digital design, embedded systems, and RF techniques as part of a structured development program. You will gain hands-on experience across lifecycle stages, with mentoring from world-class experts and opportunities for professional growth within an employee-owned

Qualifications

• Electronics degree from a reputable university.
• Demonstrated knowledge in wireless tech and embedded systems.
• Experience with digital design and RF techniques is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Contribute across multiple projects through all lifecycle stages.
• Collaborate with clients to capture requirements and present ideas.
• Develop and test electronic engineering solutions for wireless systems.

Skills

Digital design

Wireless technology

Embedded systems

Software defined radio

Software Development

Education

Electronics degree

Tools

MATLAB

Simulink

VHDL/Verilog

Job description

Multiple Access Communications Ltd | Full time

Southampton, United Kingdom

This is a graduate role for Summer/ Autumn 2027.

Applications closing date: Friday 6 November at 16:00.

Areyou looking for a career where you get to use your full range of technical andproblem-solving skills?

Areyou looking to work in a fast-growing market, at the cutting-edge of technology?

As the wireless market continues to evolve andgrow, our customers come tousto help solve complex problems.Acareer at MAC Ltd is going to suit you if you have a broad electronicengineering skillset, and love tackling complex challenges.

Life at MAC Ltd

MACLtd’s success is based on finding, training, and mentoring exceptionalelectronic engineers, building a team that’s able to take on and solve the mostdifficult engineering problems. Werequire a wide range of engineering skills and with our expert support you willbe able to develop these across a diverse range of projects.

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

YourSkills & Experience

Weare particularly looking for degree qualifiedelectronicsengineerswith significant experience in digital design, wirelesstechnology, embedded systems, or software defined radio.

Yourdegree will have given you experience insome or all of the following areas:

• FPGA design, including experience in languagessuch as VHDL, Verilog, and High-Level Synthesis
  
• Modellingtools such as MATLAB and Simulink
• Radio communications and Digital SignalProcessing (DSP) techniques
• Software Defined Radio (SDR) and RF techniques
• Software Development
• Development of communication waveforms
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machinelearning (ML)

Andyou’ll have a rounded skill set including:

• Able to take adefined problem and solve with guidance from colleagues
• Able to applygraduate knowledge and demonstrate emerging technical competence
• Good personal timemanagement.
• Demonstrablecommunication skills, able to explain technical problems to peers

Requirements

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

The benefits of working at MAC Ltd

• Opportunities to work on cutting edge technologies to make a realdifference in a dynamic and agile environment.
• Mentoring from talented and experienced world-leading industry experts.
• Sharing in the company’ssuccess through MAC Ltd’s 100% Employee Ownership.
• Beautiful rural officesetting at the University of Southampton Science Park (https://www.science-park.co.uk/ ), a short drive or bus ridefrom Southampton City Centre.
• Competitive salary that islinked to your performance.
• Discounts and offers onfitness, leisure and lifestyle brands (through our ADS membership).
• Cycle to Work scheme totake advantage of savings on bikes and accessories.
• Additional paid annualleave for volunteering activities.

MAC Ltd was founded in 1986 byProfessor Raymond Steele, one of the Founding Fathers of modern-day mobilecommunications, to tackle the engineering challenges of taking mobilecommunications from an expensive and luxury item, which was only accessible tobusiness executives and professional users, to the smart phones that we seetoday that are accessible to everyone.

He achieved this by hand-picking,training and mentoring exceptional electronic engineers to build a world classteam that were able to take on and solve the most difficult engineeringproblems. The current owners and senior leadership of MAC Ltd were part of thisearly 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 developingimproved modulation and radio access schemes, improving the ability of devicesto cope with increasing interference, developing radio spectrum sharingapproaches and providing products to test and validate radio communicationsystems. We have worked on every generation of mobile phone technology, fromthe early analogue devices to today’s 5G smart phones. We have also workedacross many sectors, including telecommunications, public safety, defence andsecurity.

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