Location:
Bristol, GB, BS16 1EJ
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Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid
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.
About the Programme and Domain
This role offers the opportunity to work within the rapidly evolving Cyber and Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA) domain, supporting the development of advanced capabilities that help military and government organisations understand, protect, operate within and effect the modern electromagnetic environment.
Successful candidates will contribute to the design and delivery of sophisticated software-defined and RF-enabled systems, integrating technologies across sensing, communications, electronic warfare, data processing, and mission systems. Working as part of a multidisciplinary engineering team, you will help develop cutting-edge solutions from concept through to deployment, applying modern open architectures, embedded technologies and high-performance computing techniques to solve complex operational challenges.
The programme provides the opportunity to work on technically demanding and nationally significant projects, alongside specialists from systems, software, hardware, RF, FPGA, cyber and data disciplines, using state-of-the-art development, integration and test facilities.
The role
About the Programme and Domain
This role offers the opportunity to work within the rapidly evolving Cyber and Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA) domain, supporting the development of advanced capabilities that help military and government organisations understand, protect, operate within and effect the modern electromagnetic environment.
Successful candidates will contribute to the design and delivery of sophisticated software-defined and RF-enabled systems, integrating technologies across sensing, communications, electronic warfare, data processing, and mission systems. Working as part of a multidisciplinary engineering team, you will help develop cutting-edge solutions from concept through to deployment, applying modern open architectures, embedded technologies and high-performance computing techniques to solve complex operational challenges.
The programme provides the opportunity to work on technically demanding and nationally significant projects, alongside specialists from systems, software, hardware, RF, FPGA, cyber and data disciplines, using state-of-the-art development, integration and test facilities.
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
[email protected] 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: 06/08/2026
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