for roles like DFT Engineer, Design Verification, ASIC Design, Physical Design, Product Development Engineeretc. at companies like Apple, Nvidia, Intel etc. Also are they on par with SWE salaries? Edit: Asking for a friend pursuing EE at top 15 US schools.
Nope. They are not on par with SWE. SWEs on an average get paid more than HW engineers.
Is this also applied to computer architecture position like architecture team in Apple?
Intel pays 90K in phoenix Arizona and around 100K in bay area. If you negotiate max 110K. But SWEs average TC in San Jose is 140K.
But nvidia and apple pay more than counterparts like intel, amd, Qualcomm etc is what I heard. For both swe and hw.
this is correct but even if they're paid more, SWEs are paid more still.
Yeah I agree, it’s just supply and demand. I wonder when, if ever, hardware will be a large growth area again.
Get an ASIC job at FAMAG (replace Netflix w/msft, Netflix doesn't do hardware), they all pay new grad HWE's 80%-100% as much as their own SWE's. My offer for L61 HWE was top of band compared to other L61 SWE offers on levels.fyi, and my G & FB offers were well in line with SWE offers of a smiliar level as well. Edit: to give hard numbers, 135k base 200k stocks 50k signing for 2 YoE (like I said, this is definitely top of band for L61)
Wow. I did not know that. That's good.
Yep, the fact that these tech giants have now gotten big enough to need to, and afford to, spin up their own in-house hardware solutions (i.e. ASIC's) for their infra/products means that some of the rediculous engineering salaries these companies offer is now becoming a reality for some of us HW folks too. In reality I think it might en up being an issue for all the older players in the space - I had 5 coworkers at my old work site leave for FAMAG offers withing a couple of months. Every single one of us got between an 40% - 120% TC raise by jumping ship.
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My offer for ASIC at Seagate in the Midwest was ass.com. With Midwest location I thjnk you can omit my day point.
What was your TC?
In Minnesota it was like 85 for fresh grad. Taxes are high but everything else is so cheap. I think they are pretty average for TC. Qualcomm and Nvidia I’m more interested in.