Top Design Jobs in Edinburgh

Design and develop RF/microwave hardware for space communication systems across UHF to Ka Band. Responsibilities include RF circuit and architecture design, simulations, component selection, PCB support, laboratory testing, troubleshooting, environmental qualification, technical documentation, design reviews, and customer interactions. The role requires delivering reliable solutions from requirements through implementation while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.

Supports project managers by leading multidisciplinary design delivery, coordinating internal and external teams, and ensuring client scope, budget, resources, and timelines are met. Facilitates meetings and workshops, manages design and project risks, integrates procurement, planning, environmental, construction, and operations activities, and promotes collaborative design decisions. The role requires stakeholder engagement, BIM and Autodesk knowledge, technical reporting, and the ability to manage complex engineering projects and changing priorities.

Design and own user-centred content experiences, develop content strategies, style and governance guidelines, run workshops, define KPIs, and coach/manage team members while collaborating with stakeholders to deliver quality digital services.

Provides specialist electrical design services for renewable energy projects, including steady-state studies, substation and collection-system equipment sizing, grounding design, and grid-code compliance. Supports project teams, advises third parties, manages design risk, and promotes technical standards across markets. The role involves coordinating with engineering, construction, project management, consultants, contractors, and certification authorities while developing innovative, cost-effective solutions for systems up to 132kV.

Manage electrical design delivery across multidisciplinary infrastructure and real estate projects. Responsibilities include technical assurance, constructability reviews, design interface management, consultant and contractor coordination, stakeholder liaison, and development of compliant, sustainable engineering solutions. The role ensures integration across engineering disciplines while addressing safety, maintainability, reliability, regulatory requirements, and whole-life asset performance.

Manages multidisciplinary engineering design across the full project lifecycle for infrastructure and real estate projects. Responsibilities include technical assurance, constructability reviews, design interface management, consultant and contractor coordination, stakeholder liaison, and development of sustainable, compliant engineering solutions. The role integrates mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, and geotechnical functions while ensuring maintainability, reliability, safety, and regulatory compliance.

Evaluate set designs, production environments, layouts, and spatial concepts across film, television, theatre, commercials, photography, and live events. Assess visual effectiveness, camera and performance practicality, creative alignment, budget feasibility, production risks, materials, continuity, and technical constraints. Compare design alternatives and provide structured, objective written feedback on strengths, weaknesses, and improvement opportunities.

Design accessible digital products and services through user journeys, wireframes, interface designs, and interactive prototypes. Conduct usability reviews, incorporate research and feedback, contribute to design systems, and collaborate with product, engineering, architecture, testing, and external stakeholders. Produce design specifications and documentation for development handover, validate implemented experiences, resolve accessibility and usability issues, and deliver design outcomes within agile sprint timelines.

Lead technical and strategic security engineering services for major construction and fit-out projects. Responsibilities include risk assessments, mitigation strategies, operational requirements, security master planning, physical security design, electronic security systems design, and counter-terrorism guidance covering hostile vehicle mitigation, blast protection, and ballistics. The role also requires security consultancy expertise, business development experience, relevant qualifications, and professional security credentials or equivalent commitment to continuing development.

Supports design management for high-end residential projects from pre-construction through handover. Coordinates consultants, subcontractors, technical submissions, shop drawings, RFIs, design information, samples, mock-ups, meetings, reports, budgets, programmes, and quality standards. Ensures compliance with planning, listed building, building, and fire regulations while helping resolve site coordination issues and maintain design quality.

Lead electrical design and engineering for data centre projects across EMEA, from concept through construction support and closeout. Manage design teams, deliverables, schedules, quality, peer reviews, value engineering, and technical decisions. Provide hands-on expertise in power distribution, transformers, UPS systems, and standby generation while mentoring engineers and coordinating multidisciplinary stakeholders. Serve as a customer-facing technical lead, supporting client and contractor meetings, site visits, installation, and commissioning matters.

Lead and mentor 4–8 Product Designers across key product domains. Balance people management, hiring, resourcing, hands-on product design, and strategic delivery. Partner with product and engineering leaders to define roadmaps, OKRs, and cohesive app experiences. Deliver end-to-end design work using research, prototyping, testing, and handoff, while exploring AI-enhanced design and development workflows.

Lead product design for core platform, native mobile experiences, and the design system. Manage approximately eight distributed product designers across the US and India, providing coaching, hiring, performance management, critiques, and quality oversight. Partner with Product and Engineering to improve UX/UI, interaction design, visual craft, information architecture, and cross-platform consistency. Drive design system adoption and responsible AI-assisted workflows while supporting high-velocity product delivery.

Leads the organisation’s design and creative direction across brand, publications, campaigns, events, digital, social, and video. Owns brand standards and governance, directs high-impact creative initiatives, develops concepts and narratives, and manages an in-house multidisciplinary design and video team. The role also oversees creative workflows, prioritisation, stakeholder relationships, and continuous improvement of creative effectiveness and consistency.

Develop verification and emulation environments for complex chiplet designs. Create UVM-SystemVerilog scoreboards, functional coverage, assertions, formal and simulation environments, and automated regressions. Integrate Cadence verification and accelerated VIP, manage verification plans in vManager, and collaborate with architects and design engineers to debug complex scenarios. Participate in technical and ISO-9001 checklist reviews.

Supports verification and validation testing across software, hardware, and mechanical subsystems. Assists with test plans, test cases, prototype test analysis, engineering documentation reviews, risk assessments, compliance activities, defect investigations, root-cause analysis, and solution recommendations. The internship provides exposure to the full product engineering lifecycle and quality systems for high-reliability products.

Supports the Creative team by creating and adapting digital assets for campaigns, promotions, and product stories across digital and retail channels. Responsibilities include design research, artwork preparation, layout development, presentations, asset library maintenance, quality checks, project tracking, and collaboration with Creative and Marketing teams. The placement is designed for a second-year university student seeking practical experience and career development in visual design and luxury fashion.

Leads MoneyGram’s visual creative direction across retail, CRM, digital, and broader business channels. The role combines hands-on design and art direction with team leadership, brand identity development, design systems, templates, asset libraries, agency management, and AI-enabled creative workflows. Success involves raising design quality, strengthening brand consistency, coaching designers, and delivering scalable creative assets while maintaining high craft standards.

Owns architecture definition and technical leadership for PMIC and advanced DC/DC converter products from concept through silicon validation. Develops system-level models, analyzes stability and transient response, leads architecture reviews, and guides cross-functional analog, digital, verification, validation, test, and product engineering teams. Creates specifications and design documentation, supports silicon bring-up and root-cause analysis, and contributes to technical training and knowledge sharing.

Lead Arbor’s centralized product design function, setting design strategy, standards, systems, and ways of working across its B2B SaaS product portfolio. Manage and mentor designers, integrate design practices across acquired products, advocate for design at leadership level, and drive usability through research and testing. Partner with product and engineering leaders on product strategy, UX/UI improvements, design systems, and AI-augmented workflows.

Owns product design quality and direction across consumer products and brands. The role involves hands-on work reviewing and improving critical user journeys, interfaces, design systems, and complex financial and AI workflows. The Head of Design partners closely with product and engineering from concept through production, establishes design standards, evaluates shipped experiences, and recruits senior product, UI, and brand designers.

Entry-level engineer supporting sealing and polymer-based product development. Responsibilities include customer application support, material selection, CAD modeling, technical analysis, testing and validation, engineering documentation, product failure investigations, quality processes, and continuous improvement. The role collaborates with engineering, manufacturing, quality, sales, and customers while developing expertise in materials, product design, manufacturing processes, and application engineering.

Leads application engineering and design analysis for polymer sealing solutions across aerospace, semiconductor, energy, industrial, and life sciences markets. Partners with customers, sales, manufacturing, and quality teams to develop designs, select materials, analyze failures, validate products, approve drawings, improve processes, and resolve performance issues. Provides technical leadership, mentors engineers, supports industry standards, presents technical findings, and leads cross-functional innovation projects.

Find, qualify, pitch, and close clients seeking web design, website development, e-commerce, or digital product services. Responsibilities include outreach through LinkedIn, cold email, calls, and professional networks; lead follow-up; discovery call coordination; and deal closing with support from the technical team. Compensation is commission-based, with flexibility to work remotely and potential progression to a base retainer plus commission.

Leads a team of engineers and technicians delivering temporary works designs, including cofferdams, formwork, falsework, propping, and jacking schemes. Reviews and checks designs, manages deadlines, supports sales and operations, attends client meetings and site visits, leads improvement projects, and mentors team members. Requires at least five years of temporary works design experience and a civil or structural engineering qualification.