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Silicon Roles

What silicon engineering actually pays

Only what employers published themselves. 714 of 2968 open roles carry a range; the rest are counted but not guessed at.

Snapshot of 2026-09-26. Archive running since 2026-08-10.

Distribution of the advertised low end

714 postings with a published range.

$0k–$100k
65
$100k–$125k
153
$125k–$150k
175
$150k–$175k
135
$175k–$200k
105
$200k–$250k
71
$250k+
10

Median by discipline

Low end of the advertised range. Disciplines with too few published ranges show n/a.

Optics & Lasers
$207,500
Mechanical & Thermal
$180,000
Physical Design
$177,000
Systems Architecture
$175,000
Silicon Software & Tools
$172,500
Other Silicon Engineering
$167,750
Power Electronics
$167,500
RTL Design
$167,000
ASIC & SoC Architecture
$165,000
Test & ATE
$165,000
Design Verification
$164,735
FPGA
$153,300
Silicon Validation & Bring-up
$151,800
Reliability & Quality
$150,000
Design for Test
$146,000
Manufacturing & NPI
$145,000
Photonics & RF
$144,000
Embedded & Firmware
$140,650
Analog & Mixed-Signal
$138,900
EDA & CAD
$132,690
Process & Fab
$124,000
Hardware & Board Design
$121,220
Advanced Packaging
$120,879

Why this page exists

Job boards delete an opening the day it closes, and with it the salary it advertised. We keep a dated snapshot every night. In a year this becomes the only public time series of advertised pay in silicon engineering — and unlike a listing, it cannot be reconstructed after the fact.

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