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.

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.

Manage multidisciplinary engineering design across infrastructure and real estate projects from concept through delivery. Lead technical assurance, constructability reviews, design interfaces, consultant performance, stakeholder coordination, and integration across mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, and geotechnical disciplines. Ensure solutions are compliant, sustainable, buildable, maintainable, and aligned with client, operational, regulatory, health, safety, and environmental requirements.

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 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.

The EMEA Design Manager will oversee design delivery for data center projects, manage multidisciplinary teams, ensure compliance with standards, and report on project metrics.

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.

Design high-impact motion graphics, animated ads, Lottie and Rive animations, and interactive motion projects for global brands. Collaborate with account teams across time zones, manage multiple projects on time and budget, support creative leads, explore motion innovations and AI-enhanced tools, and help evolve Superside's motion capabilities.

Oversee the end-to-end design management of large-scale data centre projects, coordinating design packages, stakeholders, vendors, BIM teams, technical submittals, permits, quality assurance, temporary works, and construction-phase support. The role reviews design and construction documentation, manages RFIs and risk reviews, ensures compliance with client standards, resolves design issues, and maintains accurate as-built drawings and BIM models through project completion.

Manage electrical engineering design across multidisciplinary infrastructure projects from concept through delivery. Lead technical assurance, constructability reviews, design interfaces, consultant and contractor performance, and stakeholder coordination. Ensure designs are compliant, innovative, sustainable, maintainable, and buildable while integrating civil, structural, geotechnical, mechanical, and electrical disciplines. Support contract management, risk and scope changes, regulatory requirements, and health, safety, and environmental considerations throughout the asset lifecycle.

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.

Lead and scale an AI-driven creative design team producing performance marketing assets for paid media. Own creative direction, production workflows, quality control, testing, and performance-driven iteration. Develop AI tool expertise, prompt and style libraries, and automated workflows with engineering partners. Collaborate with marketers, media buyers, copywriters, producers, and video editors while remaining hands-on with design and AI tools.

Designs and implements DFT architectures and specifications for ASIC/SoC products. Responsibilities include scan insertion, ATPG pattern development, compression and clock-control insertion, optimizing test coverage and power, and pre- and post-silicon verification and debug. The role also requires gate-level simulation, failure analysis, scripting, and collaboration across product teams.

Lead the strategy and hands-on development of platform-wide design systems, including scalable interaction patterns, UX frameworks, mobile experiences, and AI-driven design-quality tools. Partner with engineers, product managers, and designers to improve design consistency and implementation quality across complex B2B products. Own initiatives from problem identification through prototyping and delivery while maintaining strong visual, interaction, accessibility, and code-adjacent design craft.

Supports motion design projects across brand identities, digital experiences, campaigns, social content, and film. Creates animation tests, motion studies, and short-form animations; assists with storyboards, visual research, asset preparation, file organization, rendering, and exports. Participates in creative reviews, presents work, and develops designs based on feedback.

Own end-to-end product design across web, native mobile, widgets, and portals. Partner with product and engineering to define problems, prototype, validate, ship, and iterate on solutions. Maintain and evolve Figma design systems, collaborate asynchronously, review implementations, and manage priorities independently. The role requires strong product judgment, research skills, responsive and accessible design knowledge, visual craft, and comfort using AI tools such as Claude.

Create social-first visual content for LinkedIn and other channels, including graphics, infographics, carousels, motion assets, event promotions, newsletters, podcasts, and campaigns. Use generative AI tools to produce visuals, maintain brand consistency, manage multiple briefs and deadlines, coordinate approvals, update content calendars, and analyze performance to improve future content.

Write distinctive, engaging copy across blogs, newsletters, brand materials, sales and marketing pages, headlines, and campaigns. Collaborate with an editor and creative lead, respond constructively to feedback, iterate quickly, and support documentation and other writing needs. The role prioritizes a strong personal voice, creativity, versatility across formats, and a portfolio demonstrating range over specific years of experience.

Coordinates event-related creative requests from intake through delivery, briefing designers, managing timelines, reviewing print and digital assets, maintaining documentation, coordinating vendors, and identifying production or logistical risks. The role ensures brand, file, print, and platform specifications are met while improving event creative workflows and keeping cross-functional stakeholders aligned.

Design and develop digital IC architectures, RTL, and block-level testbenches for complex mixed-signal SoCs. Responsibilities include design integration, verification, synthesis, timing analysis, technical reviews, IP quality, and mentoring junior engineers. The role collaborates with mixed-signal, DFT, place-and-route, and validation teams through production and chip bring-up.