Multiple Access Communications Ltd
Digital Design Engineer - Wireless Communications
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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)
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And, you’ll have a rounded skill set including:
- Able to identify problems and possible solutions, considers all angles and implementation approaches
- Competent technical knowledge in variety of disciplines; actively engaged in learning new ideas
- Excellent time management
- Confident in articulating problems and solutions to peers and customers in verbal and written form
- Experience in taking responsibility for project components: ensuring awareness and tracking against budget and milestones
Requirements
- An electronics degree from a top UK university.
- 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.
- Sharing in the company’s success through MAC Ltd’s 100% Employee Ownership.
- Beautiful rural office setting at the University of Southampton Science Park (science-park.co.uk), a short drive or bus ride from Southampton City Centre.
- Competitive salary that is linked to your performance.
- Employee profit sharing scheme.
- Private medical insurance.
- Competitive contributory pension scheme.
- Opportunities for flexible working.
- Discounted on-site gym membership.
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).
- 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.
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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 focused 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.
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