Who Is Hiring? Search › Top 4 low-level skills
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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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.
…developer (Typescript) * Senior, Medior & Junior QA test engineer * Embedded control engineer. * Freelance QA Now is a great time to join, as the software team is still small but growing quickly. These and other vacancies are on our careers page: https: www.quatt.io…
…TI's -SYS BIOS operating system - Manipulate bits at a low level (embedded C) - Coax hardware into doing magical things What We Offer - Bootstrapped, profitable company of 35 people with no investors - we focus solely on our customers - Unique technical challenges in a small team…
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