Plan to move to Bay Area. 10 YOE as chip designer, PhD from top 20 school, numerous patents and high impact publications, what is my expected TC should be? Is 350K possible for hardware design?
If you get on a time machine and join Amazon 2 years ago with like 80k-100k in stock then.. 350TC is possible for your 3rd and 4th year. 🤗
300 should be possible. 350 maybe depends on your level of expertise. Is there a specific domain you specialize in.?
U have a company in mind?
I heard Apple and Nvidia pay a lot, not sure does Google or Facebook hire hardware engineer or not
First lesson in Bay Area: your experience doesn’t matter, it’s how well you do in the interview. If you do well in the interviews, here’s some likely scenarios in the following format: company, level, base/RSU/bonus Apple, 4, 170/50/20 ~ 240k FB/G, 5, 180/60/20 ~ 260k Other hardware companies would be less, unless you go to a start up, where you might get lots of paper money. Generally, expect base ~ 170-180, RSU ~ 40-60, bonus ~ 10-15% per year, so somewhere between 250 - 300k / year. That would also be for data science roles. If you were hired as SWE, same base plus bonus with RSU 40% higher. You could be looking at 300-350k. And if you really wow them in the interview, then expect up to 400k. BUT, this is for SWE. Good luck!
apple and Facebook only give 240k? I often heard about stories like 300k to 400k in blink , is it because the hardware TC is generally low? And is the RSU 40-60 per year ?
You got it! Second lesson in the Bay Area: Software rules! 300-400k for HW is a pipe dream (as a new level 5 hire). BTW, there’s very little difference in base salary b/w HW and SW. But generally, for RSU, HW ~ 0.6xSW. If you really like HW, get into Apple, a real company that knows how to make good products. Get into HW at FB/G for the money. If you’re after money, improve your coding skills, and practice Leetcode for a few months, then become a code monkey, be prepared for tedious and 50+hr/wk work, on the call, some weekend work, etc. I’ve got a PhD and an MS + 15 YOE, and my TC ~ 220-230k, but with excellent work life balance and short commute that I would’ve trade for another 50k!
Forget all he numbers here. You are a silicon designer, which means if you interview amazing, you will blow past SWE comp at places like FB and APPL. Great silicon people are worth their weight in gold.
Yep! FB/G are in dire need of “silicon” designers! Oh, they need them so badly. You’ll get 750k.
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