9 Layout jobs in the United Kingdom

IC Layout Engineer – Cambridge – Salary up to £65K + Benefits

I am currently hiring for an IC Layout Engineer for a key client of mine based in Cambridge.

My client is a fast-growing UK-based fabless semiconductor company developing innovative RF front-end technology for mobile device manufacturers. Their mission is to revolutionise global connectivity and ultimately realise the vision of true software-defined radio.

To support their continued growth and the development of a commercial product, they now have the need to appoint an IC Layout Engineer on a permanent basis.

They are looking for IC Layout Engineers to support the development and simulation of RF silicon ICs for next-generation RF front-end solutions. This role is ideal for motivated graduates or early-career engineers with a strong technical foundation who want to build a career in RF IC layout and design.

Working closely with senior IC designers, you will take part in layout activities, verification flows, and simulation support, as well as contribute to documentation and lab evaluation tasks. This is a hands-on position that provides excellent opportunities to learn, contribute, and grow in a fast-paced, collaborative engineering environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in the layout and design of RF IC building blocks (e.g., LNAs, RF switches, tunable capacitors).
• Support transistor-, block-, and system-level simulations using industry-standard EDA tools.
• Set up and run verification flows (LVS, DRC, PEX) and maintain accurate records of results.
• Assist senior engineers with lab measurements and post-silicon evaluation.
• Contribute to model development and co-simulation environments for RF modules.
• Prepare technical documentation, including test results, design notes, and performance summaries.
• Participate actively in team discussions, design reviews, and feedback sessions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Microelectronics, or related field.
• Exposure to IC layout and design tools (experience with Cadence preferred).
• Familiarity with simulation tools such as Spectre, RFPro, or Momentum is an advantage.
• Basic understanding of analog/RF design concepts and circuit building blocks.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Willingness to learn and ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal.

Benefits

• Competitive salary package with pension contributions.
• Share option scheme.
• 25 days annual leave plus national holidays.
• Weekly team lunches.
• Flexible working hours with remote work options.

Senior PCB Layout Engineer (Hayes, Middlesex)

I'm currently working with an exciting and innovative client in the electronics and advanced technology space who is looking to bring a Senior PCB Layout Engineer into their growing engineering team who are based in Hayes, Middlesex.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work on high-impact projects where your expertise in PCB layout, Altium, and design for EMC will be key in shaping complex electronic systems used in demanding environments. You’ll work closely with highly skilled engineers across disciplines to take designs from concept to production, ensuring performance, compliance, and manufacturability.

Responsibilities for the Senior PCB Layout Engineer job:

• Capturing schematics and delivering high-quality PCB layouts using ALTIUM Designer
• Managing and validating the PCB component library
• Collaborating with electrical, mechanical, and production teams to support new product development
• Ensuring compliance with IPC standards, high-voltage clearance rules, and EMC design best practices
• Supporting internal and customer-facing design reviews
• Contributing to DFM and test planning from early design stages
• Managing documentation, BOMs, and change control processes

Skills & experience required for the Senior PCB Layout Engineer job:

• 5+ years’ experience in PCB layout and schematic capture
• Strong knowledge of ALTIUM, including library and layout management
• Experience with flex-rigid, metal-backed PCBs, and mixed analogue/digital board designs
• Comfortable designing for controlled impedance, high-speed signals, and switch-mode power supplies
• Ability to interpret and work from electronic schematics and mechanical drawings
• Familiarity with creepage/clearance, EMC design practices, and IPC standards

Preferred Background for the Senior PCB Layout Engineer job:

• BSc or equivalent in Electrical/Electronic Engineering
• Experience working within high-reliability or safety-critical environments
• Familiarity with configuration management and product documentation tools

If you're looking for your next challenge and want to be part of a highly respected team working on real-world engineering solutions, this is a fantastic role to explore.

APPLY HERE for this Senior PCB Layout Engineer job in Hayes, Middlesex by sending a copy of your CV to

For more information you can call Scott Newcomen on .

We’re looking for a Senior IC Layout Engineer for one of our leading Semiconductor clients based in Reading, Berkshire. If you are looking to broaden your experience within a high growth, internationally recognized Semiconductor company, this could be the role for you!

As the Senior IC Layout Engineer, you will own the custom layout and verification of analog circuits, cells, blocks, and IP for multi-Gigabit high speed SerDes up to and beyond 28Gb/s and/or memory IO in advanced semiconductor technology nodes. You will have the opportunity to lead chip layout activities; hence there’s a lot of scope for career progression and satisfaction as you see your work in the final product.

As the ideal candidate you will be an experienced Analog IC Layout Engineer, ideally a background working on high speed designs.

Experience is required in some or all of the following;

• Custom analog layout of circuits and blocks for multi-Gigabit serial data-link transceivers or high frequency circuits
• Layout of high-speed or high frequency circuits such as; amplifiers, oscillators, phase-locked loops, delay-locked loops, biasing, buffers, regulators, filters, data converters
• Layout approaches and techniques for high-speed circuits, matching constraints, minimisation of parasitics, power grids and ESD requirements
• Modern semiconductor process technologies including 28nm, 14/16nm, 7nm
• EDA tools for design and verification like Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre/HSpice, Calibre/PVS DRC/LVS, parasitics extraction and modelling, EM, and IR drop, ESD, etc

On offer is a competitive salary, benefits package (including pension, private medical), visa sponsorship and relocation assistance where required.

Take the next step in your career—contact Caroline Pye today for more details or to apply.

Senior PCB Layout Engineer (Hayes, Middlesex)

I'm currently working with an exciting and innovative client in the electronics and advanced technology space who is looking to bring a Senior PCB Layout Engineer into their growing engineering team who are based in Hayes, Middlesex.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work on high-impact projects where your expertise in PCB layout, Altium, and design for EMC will be key in shaping complex electronic systems used in demanding environments. You’ll work closely with highly skilled engineers across disciplines to take designs from concept to production, ensuring performance, compliance, and manufacturability.

Responsibilities for the Senior PCB Layout Engineer job:

• Capturing schematics and delivering high-quality PCB layouts using ALTIUM Designer
• Managing and validating the PCB component library
• Collaborating with electrical, mechanical, and production teams to support new product development
• Ensuring compliance with IPC standards, high-voltage clearance rules, and EMC design best practices
• Supporting internal and customer-facing design reviews
• Contributing to DFM and test planning from early design stages
• Managing documentation, BOMs, and change control processes

Skills & experience required for the Senior PCB Layout Engineer job:

• 5+ years’ experience in PCB layout and schematic capture
• Strong knowledge of ALTIUM, including library and layout management
• Experience with flex-rigid, metal-backed PCBs, and mixed analogue/digital board designs
• Comfortable designing for controlled impedance, high-speed signals, and switch-mode power supplies
• Ability to interpret and work from electronic schematics and mechanical drawings
• Familiarity with creepage/clearance, EMC design practices, and IPC standards

Preferred Background for the Senior PCB Layout Engineer job:

• BSc or equivalent in Electrical/Electronic Engineering
• Experience working within high-reliability or safety-critical environments
• Familiarity with configuration management and product documentation tools

If you're looking for your next challenge and want to be part of a highly respected team working on real-world engineering solutions, this is a fantastic role to explore.

APPLY HERE for this Senior PCB Layout Engineer job in Hayes, Middlesex by sending a copy of your CV to

For more information you can call Scott Newcomen on .

Main tasks and responsibilities:

• Layout of RFICs including DRC, LVS, PEX, EM Extraction as well as design aspects including schematic capture and circuit simulations
• Ensuring the database is fully compliant with all requirements of tape-out flow including DRC and LVS checks and waiver process.
• Managing version control of design files and documentation
• Scripting for layout design automation using Skill
• Detailed documentation for layout reviews
• Generate IP and support management team with patent applications and IP management

Requirements

Skills and Experience

Essential

• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of analog layouts including DRC, LVS, PEX
• Strong knowledge in floor-planning techniques, power mesh planning, low noise signal routing, IO pads, ESD/LU, electromigration, antenna, layout dependent effects and analog chip integration flow.
• Knowledge of electronic devices/circuits like MOSFETs, resistors, capacitors, inductors, logic gates, op-amps, etc.
• Hands-on experience in Cadence Virtuoso Layout XL and Calibre or equivalent
• Creative thinker with practical skills and experience
• Inspires confidence in colleagues, partners, and customers
• Comfortable in a fast paced, start-up environment
• Pro-active by nature, responsive to changing needs of the projects and business
• Good communication and presentation skills
• A mindset for precise and high-quality results
• An eye for detail

Desirable

• Experience with RFICs preferred
• Experience in schematic capture and circuit simulation
• Hands-on experience with EM tools like EMX, RFPro (ADS) or equivalent
• Layout automation and scripting in SKILL language
• Experience ensuring the database is fully compliant with all requirements of tape-out flow.
• Hands-on experience with full tape-out process and communicating with foundries in relation to tape-out flow
• Strong project management skills

Benefits

• Competitive salary and pension contributions
• Company share-option scheme
• Life assurance x4 salary
• Private medical cover
• Income protection
• Healthshield Cashplan
• Heka flex benefits platform with a monthly allowance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Weekly company lunches
• Flexible work hours and remote work options
• 25 days holiday + national holidays

We believe in equal opportunities

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

Main tasks and responsibilities:

• Layout of RFICs including DRC, LVS, PEX, EM Extraction as well as design aspects including schematic capture and circuit simulations
• Ensuring the database is fully compliant with all requirements of tape-out flow including DRC and LVS checks and waiver process.
• Managing version control of design files and documentation
• Scripting for layout design automation using Skill
• Detailed documentation for layout reviews
• Generate IP and support management team with patent applications and IP management

Requirements

Skills and Experience

Essential

• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of analog layouts including DRC, LVS, PEX
• Strong knowledge in floor-planning techniques, power mesh planning, low noise signal routing, IO pads, ESD/LU, electromigration, antenna, layout dependent effects and analog chip integration flow.
• Knowledge of electronic devices/circuits like MOSFETs, resistors, capacitors, inductors, logic gates, op-amps, etc.
• Hands-on experience in Cadence Virtuoso Layout XL and Calibre or equivalent
• Creative thinker with practical skills and experience
• Inspires confidence in colleagues, partners, and customers
• Comfortable in a fast paced, start-up environment
• Pro-active by nature, responsive to changing needs of the projects and business
• Good communication and presentation skills
• A mindset for precise and high-quality results
• An eye for detail

Desirable

• Experience with RFICs preferred
• Experience in schematic capture and circuit simulation
• Hands-on experience with EM tools like EMX, RFPro (ADS) or equivalent
• Layout automation and scripting in SKILL language
• Experience ensuring the database is fully compliant with all requirements of tape-out flow.
• Hands-on experience with full tape-out process and communicating with foundries in relation to tape-out flow
• Strong project management skills

Benefits

• Competitive salary and pension contributions

• Company share-option scheme
• Life assurance x4 salary
• Private medical cover
• Income protection
• Cashplan
• Heka flex benefits platform with a monthly allowance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Weekly company lunches
• Flexible work hours and remote work options
• 25 days holiday + national holidays

We believe in equal opportunities

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

Main tasks and responsibilities:

• Layout of RFICs including DRC, LVS, PEX, EM Extraction as well as design aspects including schematic capture and circuit simulations
• Ensuring the database is fully compliant with all requirements of tape-out flow including DRC and LVS checks and waiver process.
• Managing version control of design files and documentation
• Scripting for layout design automation using Skill
• Detailed documentation for layout reviews
• Generate IP and support management team with patent applications and IP management

Requirements

Skills and Experience

Essential

• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of analog layouts including DRC, LVS, PEX
• Strong knowledge in floor-planning techniques, power mesh planning, low noise signal routing, IO pads, ESD/LU, electromigration, antenna, layout dependent effects and analog chip integration flow.
• Knowledge of electronic devices/circuits like MOSFETs, resistors, capacitors, inductors, logic gates, op-amps, etc.
• Hands-on experience in Cadence Virtuoso Layout XL and Calibre or equivalent
• Creative thinker with practical skills and experience
• Inspires confidence in colleagues, partners, and customers
• Comfortable in a fast paced, start-up environment
• Pro-active by nature, responsive to changing needs of the projects and business
• Good communication and presentation skills
• A mindset for precise and high-quality results
• An eye for detail

Desirable

• Experience with RFICs preferred
• Experience in schematic capture and circuit simulation
• Hands-on experience with EM tools like EMX, RFPro (ADS) or equivalent
• Layout automation and scripting in SKILL language
• Experience ensuring the database is fully compliant with all requirements of tape-out flow.
• Hands-on experience with full tape-out process and communicating with foundries in relation to tape-out flow
• Strong project management skills

Benefits

• Competitive salary and pension contributions

• Company share option scheme
• 25 days holiday + national holidays
• Weekly company lunches
• Flexible work hours and remote work options

We believe in equal opportunities

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

• Analyze existing plant layouts and material flow to identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and opportunities for improvement.
• Develop optimized facility layouts using CAD software and simulation tools to improve production flow, reduce material handling costs, and enhance space utilization.
• Design and implement ergonomic solutions to reduce workplace injuries, improve comfort, and increase productivity.
• Conduct ergonomic risk assessments and recommend appropriate interventions, including workstation design and tooling.
• Collaborate with operations, safety, and maintenance teams to integrate layout and ergonomic improvements into daily practices.
• Develop and maintain process documentation, including layout drawings, SOPs, and ergonomic guidelines.
• Lead projects related to facility expansion, reconfiguration, or new equipment installation, ensuring seamless integration with existing operations.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of implemented solutions through data analysis and employee feedback.
• Stay abreast of industry best practices in plant layout design and workplace ergonomics.
• Manage external consultants and contractors as needed for layout and ergonomic projects.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant health, safety, and environmental regulations.

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline. Master's degree preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in industrial engineering, with a significant focus on plant layout design and ergonomics.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD or similar CAD software for creating and modifying facility layouts.
• Experience with simulation software (e.g., Arena, AnyLogic) is a strong asset.
• In-depth knowledge of ergonomic principles, assessment tools (e.g., RULA, REBA), and best practices for workstation design.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across departments.
• Experience in conducting time studies and workflow analysis.
• Familiarity with Lean Manufacturing principles is beneficial.
• Understanding of manufacturing processes and equipment.