ASIC/FPGA Careers in Silicon Valley

Seems to be an uptick in ASIC and FPGA roles in big tech companies. Can someone speak to their opinion of the outlook for these types of positions? Is FPGA/SoC technology and the solutions it provides (acceleration, parallelism, AI/ML) on the product roadmap for some of these companies?

Microsoft Tier 1 May 24, 2019

Azure already offers FPGA accelerated ML model hosting

Lockheed Martin cXKB04 OP May 31, 2019

Yes, I see they are gracefully investing in them