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AccelerComm Ltd

Principal System Architect

AccelerComm Ltd

. Provide cross-functional technical leadership across the organisation .

Posted 10/9/2026full-timeSouthampton • United KingdomLeadWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in 3GPP 5G NR, communications signal processing, and system architecture development, with a strong focus on FPGA and ASIC implementation. Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and communicate complex technical concepts effectively.

Highest-signal resume keywords
3GPP 5G NR ExpertiseCommunications Signal ProcessingFPGA and ASIC ImplementationSystem Architecture DevelopmentCross-Functional Technical Leadership

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Hard Skills
Modem DesignRadio SystemsSystem DecompositionArchitectural ModellingPerformance AnalysisVerification StrategyFixed-Point DesignMATLABPythonC++
Soft Skills
Technical GuidanceMentoringCommunication of Technical Concepts
Tools & Technologies
FPGAASICDigital Signal ProcessingHardware-Accelerated Communications
Industry Keywords
Satellite CommunicationsNon-Terrestrial Network (NTN)Product RoadmapsTechnology Strategy

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
PythonC++

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Provide cross-functional technical leadership across the organisation
  • Establish technical direction and maintain alignment between customer needs, product strategy and engineering implementation
  • Support engineers and architects through technical guidance, review and mentoring
  • Provide architectural leadership as communications IP develops across FPGA and ASIC deployment targets
  • Lead evaluation of architectural options and implementation trade-offs, balancing performance, resource, power, verification and integration considerations
  • Provide technical direction on requirements, system decomposition, interfaces, architectural modelling, performance analysis and verification strategy
  • Resolve complex technical issues and maintain architectural coherence across products and development teams
  • Work directly with customers and partners to understand systems, requirements and deployment challenges
  • Lead technical discussions and studies
  • Assess application of AccelerComm technology within customer architectures
  • Guide integration into FPGA- and ASIC-based products
  • Use customer insights to shape product requirements, architectural direction and longer-term technology planning

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Strong understanding of 3GPP 5G NR, physical-layer processing and wireless communication systems
  • Extensive experience in communications signal processing, modem design and radio systems
  • Proven ability to define, analyse and manage complex system and product requirements
  • Proven ability to develop system architecture definitions, including hardware/software partitioning, interface definition and high-level architecture design
  • Ability to lead architectural and algorithm trade-offs, including performance, throughput, latency and resource requirements
  • Significant experience of ASIC development for communications, modem or signal-processing products
  • Strong understanding of FPGA and ASIC implementation trade-offs, including performance, resources, power and verification
  • Significant experience working directly with customers and partners to understand requirements, evaluate solutions and support product or IP integration
  • Experience leading customer technical studies, architectural discussions or collaborative development activities
  • Demonstrable cross-functional technical leadership across engineering disciplines
  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and credibly
  • Experience developing communications IP for FPGA or ASIC implementation
  • Experience of satellite or non-terrestrial network (NTN) communications systems
  • Experience of hardware-accelerated communications or digital signal processing implementations
  • Direct experience taking communications, modem or signal-processing products from FPGA-based implementation towards ASIC deployment
  • Good understanding of fixed-point design, modelling and implementation
  • Proficiency in MATLAB, Python and C++ for modelling, analysis and development
  • Experience contributing to product roadmaps, technology strategy or long-term architectural planning
  • Experience mentoring senior engineers or architects and contributing to technical practices across an engineering organisation

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Competitive salaries depending on skills and experience
  • Bonus scheme paying up to 20% of salary annually, depending on performance
  • EMI share options issued periodically
  • Pension
  • Private health insurance
  • Coffee shop at the office
  • Bike storage
  • Showers
  • Free parking
  • EV charging points