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Things that open doors
Chip and FPGA (field-programmable gate array) design
The scarcest hardware skill. AMD (a chip company) in Markham and Ciena in Ottawa hire for it.
Embedded and real-time systems
Cars, medical devices and aircraft all run on this. BlackBerry QNX (an operating system for cars) is built in Ottawa.
Machine learning hardware and systems
Making AI (artificial intelligence) models run fast on chips.
Cloud certifications
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud, if you go the software route.