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Silicon Roles

What silicon engineering actually pays

Only what employers published themselves. 448 of 1743 open roles carry a range; the rest are counted but not guessed at.

Snapshot of 2026-11-10. Archive running since 2026-08-10.

Distribution of the advertised low end

448 postings with a published range.

$0k–$100k
14
$100k–$125k
79
$125k–$150k
111
$150k–$175k
95
$175k–$200k
78
$200k–$250k
62
$250k+
9

Median by discipline

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

Optics & Lasers
$207,500
Silicon Validation & Bring-up
$185,000
Mechanical & Thermal
$182,200
Physical Design
$177,500
Systems Architecture
$175,000
Design for Test
$170,000
Silicon Software & Tools
$170,000
Other Silicon Engineering
$167,750
Power Electronics
$166,000
ASIC & SoC Architecture
$165,000
Test & ATE
$165,000
Design Verification
$162,485
RTL Design
$162,250
Embedded & Firmware
$160,000
Analog & Mixed-Signal
$154,500
Photonics & RF
$152,200
Advanced Packaging
$145,000
FPGA
$140,650
Manufacturing & NPI
$140,000
Reliability & Quality
$137,500
EDA & CAD
$126,887
Process & Fab
$121,500
Hardware & Board Design
$115,000

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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