Senior Engineer - Wireless Communications

Multiple Access Communications Ltd; Southampton; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Employee Ownership Trust

Flexible working

Pension scheme

Discounts on fitness and leisure

Job summary

MAC Ltd, based near Southampton, seeks electronics engineers with a strong background in digital design, wireless technology, embedded systems or SDR. The role involves contributing across multiple projects, owning components, and driving technical solutions while engaging with clients.

You will work within a dynamic team at the University of Southampton Science Park, with mentoring, ongoing development of skills, and opportunities to influence project outcomes across diverse assignments.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified electronics engineer with experience in digital design, wireless tech, embedded systems or SDR.
• Experience owning project components and whole projects; able to manage time and priorities across multiple tasks.
• Ability to articulate problems and solutions to peers and customers in written and verbal form; produce status reports to stakeholders.
• Experience as primary contact for customers and providing resource estimates; develop proposals and quotations.

Responsibilities

• Participate in all phases of a project lifecycle from requirements capture to implementation and presentation to clients.
• Work on multiple projects per year in a dynamic, well-established company.
• Lead, design and manage project components and mentor colleagues.

Skills

Digital design

Wireless technology

Embedded systems

Software defined radio

Software development

Communication waveforms

AI and ML

Problem solving

Client communication

Education

Electronics engineering degree

Tools

VHDL/Verilog

MATLAB

Simulink

High-Level Synthesis

Job description

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.

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.

Your Skills & Experience

We are particularly looking for degree qualified electronics engineers with significant experience in digital design, wireless technology, embedded systems, or software defined radio.

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 and solve complex problems and ideas; considering all angles and implementation solutionsExcellent technical knowledge in a range of subjects
  
• Experience in owning project components, and whole projects; and self-managed and disciplined to know, adjust and communicate own time and priorities across multiple tasks, and manage impact on others
  
• Confident in articulating problems and solutions to peers and customers in verbal and written form; and writing and presenting reports on project status, risks & opportunities, to a range of stakeholders.
  
• Being primary point of contact for customers
  
• Able to provide resource estimates; and engage with customers to discover future work and developing proposals and quotations
  
• Supporting colleague development through guidance, coaching and mentoring
  

Your typical week

Depending on your project lifecycle and milestones, you can usually expect some or all of:

• Being assigned, and identifying, engineering tasks including developing code and designing components;
  
• Preparing and reviewing technical reports and specifications, drawings, calculations and risk reviews
• Contributing to, and leading on, progress reporting to the customer
• Liaising, attending and contributing to customer meetings; delivering communications for variety of stakeholders
• Leading, designing and/or managing project components
• Mentoring colleagues through guidance and coachingContributing to quote and bid documents
  

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.

Benefits

The benefits of working at MAC Ltd include:

• 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.
• Employee ownership: MAC Ltd is 100% owned by its employees through an Employee Ownership Trust. When the company succeeds, you share in it through the EOT and our profit-sharing scheme.
• Competitive salary that is linked to your performance.
• Private medical insurance.
• Competitive 10% contributory pension scheme.
• Opportunities for flexible working around core hours.
• Beautiful rural office setting at the University of SouthamptonScience Park | The Home of Tech and Science, a short drive or bus ride from Southampton City Centre.
• Discounted on-site gym membership.
• 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.

Security Clearance

Some of our work is in the security sector, so you must be eligible for security check (SC) clearance, including having been resident in the UK for over five years. For more information and guidance please visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels .

Company Background

MAC Ltd was founded in 1986 by Professor Raymond Steele, one of the Founding Fathers of modern-day mobile communications, to tackle the engineering challenges of taking mobile communications from an expensive and luxury item, which was only accessible to business executives and professional users, to the smart phones that we see today that are accessible to everyone.

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.