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Who Hires for Embedded & Firmware? Low-Level Jobs on Hacker News (2011-2026)

Bare-metal and hardware-adjacent hiring in Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' posts: embedded, firmware, assembly and FPGA roles, charted by share of postings since 2011.

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Ranked by demand (all-time)

  1. 1.Embedded2,482 postings · peak Aug 2021
  2. 2.Firmware1,032 postings · peak Aug 2021
  3. 3.Assembly688 postings · peak Aug 2021
  4. 4.FPGA210 postings · peak May 2021
tip: use | to OR several terms into one bar, e.g. backend|sre|devops
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Job postings

Hover (or click) a bar segment to read the job postings that mention that term in that month.

Each calendar month since 2011 as one bar. Switch to share % to stack the bands to 100% and see each one’s slice of the category’s postings, narrow the window, or click a month to read the postings behind the bar.

What the chart shows

Away from the web and cloud churn, the low-level skills chart shows a smaller but remarkably stable corner of hiring. Embedded and firmware roles persist steadily across the whole history - hardware always needs software close to the metal - while assembly and FPGA hold specialist slices tied to performance-critical and silicon work. The relative bands show how that mix holds up against the broader market's swings, and the sample postings reveal the kinds of companies hiring here: hardware startups, robotics, aerospace and chip shops rather than the typical SaaS employer.

Popular Embedded postings (the category leader)

  1. Quatt.io | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Full-time | Hybrid ONSITE | https: quatt.io | climate tech I'm head of Software at Quatt, a quickly growing scaleup building heatpumps to help fix climate change. Heating and cooling is 50% of all energy used in the EU. Heat pumps save 10…

  2. Erdos Miller | Firmware Engineer ($127K-$149K) | Remote or Houston, TX | https: www.erdosmiller.com We build technology that sends data through mud and magnetics, literally, for drilling applications such as Oil&Gas and Geothermal power. We're seeking a bare metal firmware…

Each skill on its own

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