Digital Design Engineer

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.