Hardware Design Developer Salary in 2024
How statistics are calculated
We count how many offers each candidate received and for what salary. For example, if a Hardware Design developer with a salary of $4,500 received 10 offers, then we would count him 10 times. If there were no offers, then he would not get into the statistics either.
The graph column is the total number of offers. This is not the number of vacancies, but an indicator of the level of demand. The more offers there are, the more companies try to hire such a specialist. 5k+ includes candidates with salaries >= $5,000 and < $5,500.
Median Salary Expectation – the weighted average of the market offer in the selected specialization, that is, the most frequent job offers for the selected specialization received by candidates. We do not count accepted or rejected offers.
Hardware Design
How do you get a job in hardware design?
Internships
Land the best-paying internship you can find, even in hardware design – anything FPGA and RTL work, if possible. You might have to settle for general internships. They won’t pay great, and the work itself will often be mundane, but it gets your resume inflated and skilled you up for rock-bottom prices.
Learning Resources
Learn to write code in Hardware Description Languages (HDLs) like VHDL or Verilog with tools such as GHDL and Icarus Verilog, and join communities such as FPGA for learning opportunities and peer advice; practical matters are easier to find help with than the philosophical ones. Get some hardware of your own. Lattice sells good development kits for beginner FPGAs; Xilinx and Intel have more powerful offerings for those ready to harness the power of supercomputers in tiny packages.
Educational Materials
Drill down into the theory behind it all with textbooks such as Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (2013) – a book that walks you through the design of the systems – and Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface (sixth edition, 2005) – an equally excellent introduction to understanding how systems work.
Professional Landscape
Things can vary, but sometimes you might work on one element of the project from start to finish – say a PCB layout or a schematic – depending upon what size the company is and what industry you are working in. Smaller teams will require more responsibilities, from maintaining customer contact to gaining the necessary certifications.
This is especially true as hardware design increasingly comes into conflict with software/IT, as great benefit accrues from programming (particularly Python) skills, in order to improve hardware function, debug issues, and analyse data.