FPGA and Embedded Software Engineer

Job Title:                     FPGA and Embedded Software Engineer

Location:                     Ashton, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF73278

Engineer the technology that protects critical national capabilities

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Field Programmable Gate Array and Embedded Software Engineer at Ashton, near Bristol, Somerset.

At Babcock, a career in defence, aerospace and engineering is about more than innovation it’s about purpose. Our engineers work on advanced systems that safeguard national security and deliver real‑world impact. You’ll be trusted to solve complex problems, collaborate with experts, and help shape solutions that matter.

The role

As a Field Programmable Gate Array and Embedded Software Engineer, you’ll be part of a highly skilled engineering team developing cutting‑edge real‑time data processing applications. Working across the full engineering life cycle, you’ll contribute to the design, development, testing and integration of embedded and radio‑frequency systems that support mission‑critical capabilities.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with modern technologies including system‑on‑chip platforms, software‑defined radios and open architecture frameworks. You’ll collaborate closely with systems, quality and requirements specialists, gaining deep technical exposure while building a career in a fast‑growing, high‑integrity environment where innovation and learning are actively encouraged.

Day-to-day, you’ll collaborate with a team of engineers to design, build, test, and deploy embedded RF applications across the full life cycle. Applications will require integration with an OpenCPI platform. Applications include:

• Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) design including DSP elements.
• Test and verification activities
• Integration with System-on-chip platforms
• Data exchange with services higher in the stack

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.

Essential experience of the FPGA and Embedded Software Engineer

• Proven, recent FPGA development experience over multiple projects.
• Experience in either VHDL or Verilog
• Experience working with embedded Linux or comparable operating systems
• Experience contributing to test, verification and integration activities
• Ability to collaborate effectively within multidisciplinary engineering teams

Qualifications for the FPGA and Embedded Software Engineer

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical/computer engineering or equivalent relevant experience.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) / Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance for this role.  Sole UK National.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer 

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10‑days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading, enabling you to buy or sell annual leave
• ‘Be Kind Day’ — one paid volunteering day each year
• Flexible working options supporting work‑life balance
• A dynamic working environment

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 15/05/2026

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