Skills and tools
What employers actually ask for, detected in the text of 875 open postings, with the median advertised pay attached to each.
Python
513 open · median $165,000
PCIe
212 open · median $185,000
Ethernet
202 open · median $175,000
Siemens EDA
132 open · median $185,500
Cadence
116 open · median $182,000
SerDes
114 open · median $170,250
Signal Integrity
110 open · median $162,500
Tcl
108 open · median $172,750
SystemVerilog
99 open · median $175,000
DDR / HBM
90 open · median $170,000
Static Timing Analysis
87 open · median $165,000
Tape-out
81 open · median $175,000
Synopsys
80 open · median $185,000
RISC-V
74 open · median $185,000
Arm
73 open · median $165,000
Verilog
72 open · median $160,000
Scan & DFT
65 open · median $175,000
PCB layout
59 open · median $145,000
UVM
54 open · median $180,000
CMOS process
41 open · median $165,000
RTOS / Embedded
33 open · median $151,056
Linux kernel
26 open · median $169,215
CUDA / GPU
23 open · median $142,500
SPICE / Analog sim
18 open · median $167,800
VHDL
12 open · median $131,500