Digital Hardware Design Engineer

Job Title: Digital Hardware Design Engineer
Location: Leicestershire (On-site)
Salary: Up to £60k (DOE)
We're seeking a motivated Digital Hardware Design Engineer to join an innovative engineering team developing advanced, high-performance electronic products. This is an exciting opportunity for an engineer looking to further develop their technical skills and contribute to digital hardware designs from concept through to production, working closely with experienced engineers and multidisciplinary teams.
About the Role

• Design and develop digital hardware, including high-speed interfaces, signal processing and switching/routing architectures.
  
• Develop, simulate and verify RTL designs, ensuring functionality, timing performance and design robustness.
  
• Contribute to hardware architectures and support system-level design decisions and technical trade-off analysis.
  
• Produce technical documentation, including design specifications, schematics and hardware test plans.
  
• Perform functional simulation, synthesis and timing analysis targeting FPGA and/or ASIC technologies.
  
• Collaborate with firmware, software and systems engineers to support successful hardware/software integration.
  
• Support hardware verification, validation, laboratory bring-up and board-level debugging.
  
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews and continuous improvement of engineering processes.
  
• Work alongside manufacturing teams to support designs optimised for volume manufacture and test.
  
• Assist with component selection and liaise with suppliers to support product development and availability.
  
• Contribute to the design of reliable electronics for demanding or harsh operating environments.
  

About You

• Degree (or equivalent) in Electronic Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
  
• 2–5 years' experience in digital hardware design, ideally involving high-speed digital systems.
  
• Good understanding of digital hardware design principles, including clocking strategies, Clock Domain Crossing (CDC), reset architectures and timing constraints.
  
• Experience with FPGA development tools.
  
• Familiarity with simulation tools including ModelSim, Questa, or similar.
  
• Some experience creating and executing hardware test plans.
  
• Exposure to board-level debugging using laboratory equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analysers and protocol analysers.
  
• Understanding of high-speed PCB design and signal integrity.
  
• Experience using Altium Designer.
  
• An interest in developing knowledge of electronics for harsh operating environments.
  
• A proactive approach to problem-solving and the ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary engineering team.
  

Please note, we cannot offer sponsorship for this role.
If interested, please send over an updated CV.