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Specialties that raise your pay

• Digital design and verification

  Writing hardware description code and proving a chip works before it is built. Always short of people.

• Embedded systems and firmware

  The code that runs on the chip itself. The widest job market in hardware.

• Semiconductor process and packaging

  How chips are actually manufactured. New American fabrication plants are hiring for this.

• Security clearance

  Defense work requires it, takes months to obtain, and makes you hard to replace.

• Machine learning hardware

  Designing accelerators for AI workloads is the hottest corner of the field right now.