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)
And, you’ll have
a rounded skill set including:
- Able to identify and
solve complex problems and ideas; considering all angles and implementation
solutionsExcellent technical
knowledge in a range of subjects
- Experience in owning
project components, and whole projects; and self-managed and disciplined to
know, adjust and communicate own time and priorities across multiple tasks, and
manage impact on others
- Confident in
articulating problems and solutions to peers and customers in verbal and
written form; and writing and presenting reports on project status, risks &
opportunities, to a range of stakeholders.
- Being primary point
of contact for customers
- Able to provide
resource estimates; and engage with
customers to discover future work and developing proposals and quotations
- Supporting
colleague development through guidance, coaching and mentoring
Your typical week
Depending
on your project lifecycle and milestones, you can usually expect some or all
of:
- Being assigned, and identifying, engineering
tasks including developing code and designing components;
- Preparing and reviewing technical reports and
specifications, drawings, calculations and risk reviews
- Contributing to, and leading on, progress
reporting to the customer
- Liaising, attending and contributing to customer
meetings; delivering communications for variety of stakeholders
- Leading, designing and/or managing project
components
- Mentoring colleagues through guidance and
coaching
- Contributing to quote and bid documents
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.
- Employee ownership: MAC Ltd is 100% owned by its employees through
an Employee Ownership Trust. When the company succeeds, you share in it through
the EOT and our profit-sharing scheme.
- Competitive salary that is
linked to your performance.
- Private medical insurance.
- Competitive 10% contributory pension
scheme.
- Opportunities for flexible
working around core hours.
- Beautiful rural office
setting at the University of SouthamptonScience Park | The Home of Tech and Science, a short drive or bus ride
from Southampton City Centre.
- Discounted on-site gym
membership.
- 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
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 focussed 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.