Cambridge Consultants Tech Stack
Deep tech R&D and hardware design for wireless, medical, and satellite systems
Cambridge Consultants is the deep-tech division of Capgemini, operating as a 800-person hardware and systems engineering firm spread across four continents. The tech stack—heavy on low-level languages (C, C++, Rust, SystemVerilog, VHDL), FPGA/ASIC tooling (Xilinx, Altium, HFSS), and wireless protocols (3GPP, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 5G, ZigBee)—reflects a company solving physics-constrained problems in RF, power efficiency, and embedded systems. Active projects span satellite comms, robotic warehouse control, and voice detection at extreme power budgets; hiring skews heavily engineering (43 of 65 roles) with a seniority mix favoring junior and intern talent, suggesting capacity-building in specialized IC and systems design.
Tech Stack 72 technologies
What Cambridge Consultants Is Building
◆Challenges
- Complex technical challenges
- Optimising existing technologies
- Tough commercial and time constraints
- Develop new products
- Smart meter challenges
- Streamlining processes
- Developing new technologies
- Smart wearable integration
- Complex supply chain management
- Commercial and time challenges
▲Active Projects
- Developing a novel air-interface and bespoke communication systems for the ocado smart platform controlling hundreds of robots in grocery distribution centres
- World's largest commercial airborne antenna
- Iridium extreme satellite phone
- Ip block acceleration of voice activity detection using custom in-house dsp cores
- Map based indoor navigation using sensor fusion
- Creating secure satellite communication systems
- World’s lowest power voice detection system
- Zigbee to long-range radio bridge
- Vinfusion
- Ultra-reliable communications for satellites
Hiring Activity
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Notable leadership hires: Service Desk Lead
