Senior Hardware Design Engineer

Description

We are looking for multiple Senior Design Engineers who will work on revolutionary technology that is at the leading edge of non-terrestrial communications, a 5G base station to be deployed on board satellites. This technology will underpin the next generation of mobile standards, giving complete coverage to the entire globe. AccelerComm develops the baseband signal processing technology, using hardware acceleration to generate world-leading error resilience, capacity and power efficiency.

You will work on the latest generation space-qualified devices, delivering standalone IP and integrated IP solutions.

Key Responsibilities

As a Senior Hardware Design Engineer, you will be responsible for: -

Designing mirco-architectures and RTL implementations to meet the requirements provided by Algorithm and System Architecture teams. Providing feedback to Algorithm and System Architecture teams to improve efficiency of RTL designs.

Implementing designs targeting FPGA and/or ASIC using industry standard techniques, design flows and tools, including the creation of appropriate block level and system level testbenches

Deploying your designs onto the latest FPGA development platforms for validation and system integration

Actively engaging with and adhering to AccelerComm engineering methodology, processes and design techniques, being able to offer improvements to efficiency and quality for both the design flow and the final product

Collaborating with colleagues across the whole design flow: micro-architecture, design, verification, physical implementation and optimisation for ASIC and FPGA

• Work closely with the Algorithm and System Architecture teams to understand requirements and translate them into mirco-architectures for RTL implementations
• Implement designs targeting both FPGA and ASIC using industry standard techniques, including the creation of appropriate testbenches
• Deploy your designs onto the latest FPGA development platforms for validation and system integration
• Actively engage with and adhere to AccelerComm engineering methodology, processes and design techniques, being able to offer improvements to efficiency and quality for both the design flow and the final product
• Collaborate with colleagues across the whole design flow: micro-architecture, design, verification, physical implementation and optimisation for ASIC and FPGA

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Essential:

• Expert knowledge of Verilog and SystemVerilog for complex ASIC/FPGA products
• Minimum 5 years of experience in industry, designing and delivering successful FPGA/ASIC designs implementing multiple Gbps high-speed data communication and connectivity protocols or baseband processing
• A strong skillset in delivering digital designs in the ASIC and FPGA industry
• A strong work ethic and focus on completing designs on time to meet customer delivery schedules
• Optimisation of timing and hardware resources for high throughput data or signal processing applications. Experience in power management techniques, synthesis and timing analysis
• Track record in collaborating across teams to produce integrated solutions
• Experience in technical documentation writing – design specifications, user guides, verification plans
• Expert user of EDA tools for simulation and synthesis

Desirable:

Knowledge of 3GPP L1 and digital communications signal processing algorithms (such as error correction, equalisation, channel estimation, beamforming)

Familiarity with the AMBA/AXI bus protocols

Should this be a must have for a senior level?

• Knowledge of communications signal processing algorithms (such as error correction, equalisation, channel estimation, beamforming)
• Familiarity with the AMBA bus protocols
• Understanding of UVM verification techniques or practical experience using UVM for IP verification
• Experience using C++/SystemC for design modelling and integration
• Experience with high speed interfaces such as PCI-E or JESD
• Knowledge of a scripting language, such as Python
• Knowledge and appreciation of project methodologies across the design lifecycle, including agile and waterfall, requirement capture and traceability
• Experience with AMD FPGAs and the associated design tools or with any EDA’s ASIC backend tools

Benefits

We offer a bonus scheme which pays up to 20% of salary annually, depending on performance. This is in addition to stock options and a range of good quality company benefits including 401K, health/dental/optical insurance. We operate flexible working hours and offer hybrid working.

About AccelerComm

AccelerComm is a pioneering technology company delivering high-performance physical layer solutions for 5G and next‑generation wireless networks, with a particular focus on Non‑Terrestrial Networks (NTN) such as satellite communications.

With offices in the UK and the US, the company combines world leading research with real world deployment expertise to solve some of the most demanding challenges in modern connectivity.

AccelerComm specialises in advanced signal processing and error resilient physical layer IP, enabling significantly improved performance, efficiency, and power consumption for 5G systems. Its technology processes substantially more data per watt than traditional software‑only approaches and is already proven in orbit, powering hundreds of operational satellite communications systems worldwide.

With a growing global customer base that includes leading mobile operators, semiconductor vendors, and aerospace organisations, we are at the forefront of the convergence between terrestrial and satellite communications—helping to enable truly global, always‑on connectivity.

Driven by continuous innovation and a strong patent portfolio, we are shaping the future of wireless communications by bringing cutting edge research into commercially deployed, mission critical systems.