Digital Design Engineer
13 days ago
Glasgow
Digital Design Engineer - Cryptography 📍 Office based in London - monthly visits required 🏠Remote position in the UK 📄 3 months contract - Outside IR35 💷 Rate negotiable 5V Tech is supporting a cutting-edge silicon security company delivering trusted solutions for modern SoCs, chiplets, and connected devices. They are looking for a Digital Design Engineer with experience in Cryptography to join their project and start contributing from day 1. They combine low-footprint security IP with lifecycle software to ensure identity, integrity, and trust are anchored directly in silicon and maintained across manufacturing, deployment, and operation. This is a hands-on role for someone who has implemented cryptography at hardware level, not just worked on theory. The project: • Designing and implementing secure digital architectures for ASIC/FPGA, • Building and optimising hardware modules for cryptographic algorithms (AES, SHA, TRNG), • Working on Root of Trust systems and secure hardware components, • Applying countermeasures against side-channel attacks, • Contributing across RTL design, verification, and timing analysis Requirements: • Extensive experience in digital design, • Strong background in hardware-based cryptography implementation, • Excellent Python skills, • Solid Verilog or VHDL skills, • Experience working on ASIC or FPGA targets 5V Tech are acting as an Agency for the purposes of this contract. We offer a reward scheme if you can recommend someone for this contract, up to £250 for you and an additional £250 to a charity of your choice, 5V Tech are recognised talent solutions experts within IoT and Deep Tech working across Europe, the UK and North America.