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Silicon Roles

What silicon engineering actually pays

Only what employers published themselves. 341 of 875 open roles carry a range; the rest are counted but not guessed at.

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

Distribution of the advertised low end

341 postings with a published range.

$0k–$100k
3
$100k–$125k
48
$125k–$150k
87
$150k–$175k
75
$175k–$200k
62
$200k–$250k
60
$250k+
6

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
$205,000
Design Verification
$187,500
Analog & Mixed-Signal
$185,000
Physical Design
$180,000
ASIC & SoC Architecture
$175,000
RTL Design
$175,000
Power Electronics
$172,500
Silicon Software & Tools
$170,000
Mechanical & Thermal
$167,800
Test & ATE
$165,000
Design for Test
$165,000
Other Silicon Engineering
$158,400
Photonics & RF
$147,500
Embedded & Firmware
$145,000
Reliability & Quality
$140,000
Manufacturing & NPI
$140,000
Advanced Packaging
$140,000
FPGA
$139,000
EDA & CAD
$135,000
Hardware & Board Design
$132,500
Process & Fab
$120,000
Systems Architecture
n/a

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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