Top Design Jobs in Edinburgh

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.

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.

Leads and inspires a team of up to six designers, shaping art direction and managing brand systems across the organisation. Ensures design outputs are insight-driven, accessible, high-quality, and on-brand. Partners with Creative Studio Operations and stakeholders to prioritise workloads, improve processes, and deliver strategically aligned creative work. Combines strategic design leadership with hands-on delivery while promoting design excellence, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

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.

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.

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.

Design and maintain clinical guidance, e-learning modules, case studies, videos, desk aids, facilitator-led training, and competency assessments for Functional Assessors. Research evidence-based clinical standards, collaborate with healthcare professionals and external bodies, support training needs analysis, maintain clinical approval, and contribute to continuous improvement across the WCA contract.

Designs and maintains clinical training content for Functional Assessors within the PIP Health Assessment Advisory Service. Responsibilities include creating e-learning, videos, case studies, desk aids, facilitator-led materials, competency assessments, and clinical guidance aligned with evidence-based medicine and DWP requirements. The role collaborates with healthcare professionals and external bodies, supports training needs analysis, maintains clinical approval, and contributes to continuous improvement.

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.

Own Recraft’s brand voice across launches, social media, video scripts, SEO content, UX copy, naming, and product storytelling. The role partners closely with design, product, and AI research teams, requiring strong written English, design fluency, hands-on AI tool experience, and a distinctive editorial voice. Candidates should provide writing samples and be comfortable creating everything from long-form articles to concise interface copy.

Manage civil project design delivery from contract award through completion. Coordinate designers, monitor progress, secure approvals, review buildability and compliance, resolve technical issues, support risk management and value engineering, implement BIM, assist with CDM obligations, and manage design handover during project completion.

Moderates centre-marked learner work for the Level 1/2 Technical Award in Creative Design and Production. Reviews assessment decisions, applies quality assurance and regulatory standards, produces moderation reports, manages sampling activity, attends training and standardisation meetings, and provides constructive feedback to support consistency and continuous improvement.

Designs and develops manufacturing-ready BMS and EPMS control panels for mission-critical projects. Responsibilities include creating schematics, wiring diagrams, I/O allocations, communication architectures, bills of materials, and vendor integrations. Performs constructability and technical reviews, validates installation feasibility, manages revisions, supports commissioning readiness, and coordinates with project teams, manufacturers, and vendors. The role also identifies design risks, improves panel architecture and component selection, and supports quality management and continuous improvement.

Design and develop synthesizable SystemVerilog RTL for ASIC digital blocks. Create micro-architecture specifications, run simulations, debug designs, and support timing, power, area, LINT, CDC, formal verification, integration, and sign-off activities. Collaborate with analog, physical design, verification, and DFT teams while producing design documentation and learning industry-standard digital design methodologies.

Senior RF/Microwave Design Engineer responsible for designing, simulating, testing, and delivering RF hardware (UHF to Ka-band) and subsystems for space communications and telemetry. Tasks include RF architecture trades, link budgets, component selection, PCB-layout support, RF measurements and troubleshooting, environmental qualification support, documentation, and technical/customer interactions to meet project milestones.

Leads electrical design for hyperscale and mission-critical data centers across Europe. Responsibilities include managing HV/MV/LV systems, substations, utilities, consultants, permitting, project delivery, construction support, commissioning, and integrated systems testing. The role provides client-side technical leadership, reviews designs and project documents, coordinates multidisciplinary teams, manages risks and milestones, and ensures compliance with standards and operational requirements.

Designs and verifies complex mixed-signal, multilayer PCB layouts from schematics. Manages external PCB manufacturing and assembly, including quotes and purchasing. Coordinates layout reviews, supports component library development, and verifies technical drawings for test equipment compatibility. Tracks project schedules, escalates technical issues, and manages supplier quality concerns, corrective actions, and KPIs while collaborating with international cross-functional teams and vendors.

Provides technical leadership for advanced-node semiconductor implementation programs from synthesis and netlists through physical design, signoff, and tapeout. Develops PPA optimization methodologies, investigates silicon and convergence issues, collaborates with R&D and customers, influences EDA tool development, and establishes reusable implementation practices. Mentors engineers, supports strategic customer engagements and presales activities, and drives innovation across timing, power, signal integrity, verification, SoC integration, and advanced packaging.

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.

Own the function’s AI transformation strategy, prioritize high-impact opportunities, map workflows, and drive measurable adoption. Build and manage AI agents using no-code and low-code tools, configure skills and MCP connections, evaluate agent performance, and iterate solutions. Lead change management, champion networks, cross-functional collaboration, intake processes, and alignment with Enterprise AI and executive stakeholders.

Leads IRIS’s global creative vision and design direction, including an ambitious rebrand, visual identity, design systems, integrated campaigns, digital experiences, motion, events, and executive communications. Manages and develops the in-house creative team while coordinating agencies and freelancers. Establishes creative processes, brand guidelines, and quality standards, partners with marketing and communications functions, and uses AI tools to improve creative workflow speed and scale.

Create and manage branded graphics, videos, photography, copy, presentations, social media, website content, and digital campaign assets. Maintain brand consistency across marketing materials, analyze social performance, support website optimization, coordinate photo and video shoots, manage external suppliers, and assist with events and wider marketing operations.

Own core product surfaces from concept through launch, creating high-fidelity coded prototypes and improving the coss ui design system. Collaborate asynchronously with product and design engineering, emphasizing accessibility, web standards, interaction details, evidence-based decisions, and reusable component architecture. Frame hypotheses, measure outcomes, document decisions, incorporate critique, and deliver prototypes that engineers can implement directly.