Medical Technology Jobs

• Oxford
• On-site
• £80,000 – £120,000 pa
• Lead
• Permanent

Hands-on technical leadership role owning the architecture and delivery of high-throughput FPGA subsystems for next-generation medical device technology. You drive designs across the full lifecycle, from requirements through RTL implementation, custom-ASIC bring-up, lab validation and product release, while mentoring mid/senior hardware engineers and championing CI/CD automation.

AMD · Xilinx · Vivado +2

• Oxford
• Lead

Own the architecture and technical delivery of the FPGA subsystem for a high-throughput nanopore sequencing platform. This hands-on technical leadership role sets technical direction and guides the engineering team, taking designs through the full lifecycle from requirements and architecture to RTL implementation, custom-ASIC bring-up, lab validation and product release.

• Manchester
• £48,000 – £57,000 pa
• Mid-level

Designs analogue and digital electronics for scientific instrumentation, owning specifications, schematics, PCB layouts and PLD/FPGA configurations across the full product life cycle. Works closely with suppliers, fitters and test engineers, building and evaluating prototypes to ISO61010, ISO13485 and 21CFR820 standards, with Cadstar, HV design and Xilinx MicroBlaze firmware as advantageous skills.

Cadstar · Xilinx MicroBlaze · PLD +2

• Cambridge
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• £50 – £65 ph
• Senior
• Contract

Embedded contractor role within an established medical technology company's electronics team, supporting complex designs from requirements and schematic capture through design reviews, PCBA layout, board bring-up and system test. Requires broad electronics design experience with depth in areas such as embedded microprocessors, motor drives, FPGA, analogue sensors or high-speed communications, using Altium Designer and DFx/EMC principles.

Altium Designer

• Cambridge
• Hybrid
• £35,000 – £45,000 pa
• Mid-level

Develops FPGA and embedded firmware for high-performance data acquisition and signal processing systems used in biomedical research products. Writes VHDL for FPGA functionality and C for low-level hardware control, integrating and debugging digital electronics across the full product lifecycle alongside hardware and software engineers.

AMD/Xilinx Vivado · Intel Quartus · USB +1