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Hardware
From systems architecture to testing and compliance, you’ll work on innovative products you don’t find anywhere else. The best part? You don’t have to specialise too soon. Over three rotations, you’ll work on one of our most varied programmes, changing the way millions watch their favourite shows.
Hardware
Start date: 15th September 2025
£38,000 per annum|2 years
About this programme
Want to do the best work of your life? Do you want to help invent the tech your friends and family use every day? Our products including Sky Q, Sky Glass and broadband routers are in more than one in every two homes in the UK, and you are sure to have used them.
Join a workplace where you can proudly be yourself. Our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.
Join our Hardware graduate programme and you’ll spend two years taking on varied hardware roles, rising to unique challenges and working on the kind of exciting innovative projects you just don’t find anywhere else. All while discovering first-hand how we bring millions of people the entertainment they know and love.
And the best thing is you don’t have to specialise too soon. From system architecture to testing and compliance, this programme lets you taste it all before deciding on the career path that suits you best.
What you’ll be doing
This programme gives you exposure to several different areas of hardware engineering. Over the course of two years, you’ll take on three 8 month rotations in the following areas:
- Product Design (system architecture, schematics, and layout)
- Testing and Compliance
- Research and Development
From the start, you’ll get going with current live projects contributing to the company, as well as working on new and upcoming ideas. You’ll have opportunities to work alongside great and talented people. Plus, you’ll get lots of freedom to try out new ideas and shape where our multibillion-pound business goes next. And by the end of the scheme, you’ll have developed all the core skills you need to take on your first permanent role.
Transferable soft skills including:
- Collaboration
- Problem solving
- Presentation and report writing
Hard skills including:
- Schematic design
- CAD layout
- Compliance testing
- Product reliability testing
- Understanding product lifecycles
This programme would lead to various roles based in electronic engineering – including, but not limited to:
- Hardware engineer
- Layout engineer
- Test engineer
- Compliance engineer
- Engineering manager
What we’re looking for
There’s two types of requirements for this programme.
Education: You have or will be graduating soon with a degree in any engineering or related field.
Other skills you may have include:
- A passion for technology
- Staying up to date with the latest technology developments
- A can-do attitude and the desire to contribute into this very dynamic and fast-moving market sector
- Effective collaboration
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
Right to Work: You’re required to have the appropriate right to work in the UK by the start date of the programme. Please be aware Sky does not offer sponsorship for this programme.
Status
Applications for this programme have now closed. Register your interest below and we'll let you know when the 2026 graduate programme is open.
Meet Jamie
Global Director - Global Devices Entertainment Product Engineering
"The Entertainment Product Engineering team delivers complex and interesting designs and developments across a broad range of projects. Our team combine highly creative lateral thinking with excellent technical skills and a solid core of industry experience to form a powerful development and delivery team."
Application journey
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Application
Time to submit your application on our system. We’ll be asking for your personal details, academic information and everything else that you think would be relevant such as work experience. That’s all there is to it.
If we need to make adjustments to make you feel more comfortable at any stage, please let us know when you apply — we’ll be in touch to discuss.
Digital Assessment
Once your application is in, we’ll ask you to complete our immersive digital assessment, which tests behavioural strengths and motivation for the role in one assessment.
We understand that you might want to utilise AI to support your preparation for taking the assessments – understanding Sky etc. But we ask that you complete the assessments themselves without the assistance of AI.
Assessment Centre
For the final stage, we’ll invite you to our assessment centre and give you some tasks to get to know you better. The day will give you a practical insight into what it’s like to work as a hardware engineer and will assess your technical aptitude.
We'll be in touch
Once you’ve completed all the assessment steps, we’ll let you know when you can expect to hear back from us.
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Megan
Engineering Process Manager
Our brand new hardware graduate scheme is the perfect opportunity to develop the core skills you need to become a hardware engineer. During the course of the two year grad scheme, you will take on three eight month rotations. These rotations include product design, testing and compliance, and research and development.
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