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Hardware & Semiconductors

Section 1 / Overview

Which way this sector's hiring is moving

Silicon, networking, IoT, and telecom-infrastructure firms.

Hardware and semiconductors brings together chip design and manufacturing, IoT and embedded systems, and the telecom hardware stack. The employers are largely global semiconductor and networking companies running deep engineering centres in India. It is the most hardware-intensive sector on the platform, weighted toward silicon, firmware, and systems work.

Top companies hiring
Most active employers over the last 4 weeks, by posting volume.
  • Cisco
  • HARMAN
  • NetApp
  • NVIDIA
  • Applied Materials India
  • ABB
  • Qualcomm
  • Aptiv
  • GE HealthCare
  • Zebra Technologies
  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
  • KLA
Weekly postings28 weeks
0100200300400Dec 28Jan 25Feb 22Mar 22Apr 19May 17Jun 14Jul 05postings / wk
Weekly posting counts across the sector.
Weekly active companies28 weeks
020406080100Dec 28Jan 25Feb 22Mar 22Apr 19May 17Jun 14Jul 05companies / wk
Distinct companies with at least one posting each week.
Section 2 / Profile Distribution

The roles this sector actually hires

Systems and Embedded Engineering overwhelms this industry, taking just under half of postings on its own. Every other track sits far behind, with QA and Testing the nearest at just under a tenth. Demand here is concentrated like nowhere else.

Rest of marketLeading profile

  1. Systems & Embedded Engineering+40
  2. QA & Testing+3
  3. DevOps & Platform Engineering+1
  4. Backend Development−7
  5. Fullstack Development−3
  6. AI & LLM Applications−2
  7. Enterprise Platforms−17
  8. Generalist Software Engineer−2
  9. Mobile Development±0
  10. Frontend Development−2
  11. Domain-Specific Development−2
  12. Data Engineering−3
  13. Data Science & ML+1
  14. Data Analytics & BI−5
  15. Security Engineering±0

Sorted by share of postings · gap = share − rest of market, in points

Section 3 / Company-Class Distribution

The kinds of companies behind the sector

Hardware and semiconductors is almost entirely a multinational story, with global firms and their capability centres accounting for the overwhelming majority of hiring.

This industryRest of markettop employers by openings in the last 2 weeks

  1. MNCs & GCCs41 employers hiring
    This industry~80%
    Rest of market~20%
    • Cisco
    • HARMAN
    • NVIDIA
    • NetApp
    • GE HealthCare
  2. Established SMEs6 employers hiring
    This industry~8%
    Rest of market~9%
    • Waters Corporation
    • Circles
    • Enphase Energy
    • QSC
    • Resideo
  3. IT Services & BPO4 employers hiring
    This industry~3%
    Rest of market~45%
    • Cyient
    • Sasken Technologies Ltd
    • Prodapt
    • VOIS
  4. MAANG & Tier-1 Tech1 employer hiring
    This industry~3%
    Rest of market~5%
    • Apple
  5. Unicorns & Indian Product4 employers hiring
    This industry~3%
    Rest of market~6%
    • AliveCor
    • Cerebras Systems
    • Graphcore
    • Nextiva
  6. Lala Companies2 employers hiring
    This industry~2%
    Rest of market~3%
    • Source-Right
    • Vir Innovations
  7. Funded Startups2 employers hiring
    This industry~2%
    Rest of market~3%
    • Aeris
    • Tsavorite Scalable Intelligence
  8. Staffing & Bodyshops0 employers hiring
    This industrynegligible
    Rest of market~6%

    No listed employer hiring in the last 2 weeks.

Section 4 / City Distribution

Where in India this sector hires

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Bangalore holds around seven in ten of hardware and semiconductor hiring. Mumbai Region shrinks to almost nothing. Hyderabad also sits well below its national weight, at a very small share. Chennai is the standout secondary, tracking its share at just under a tenth on the strength of its chip base.

City distribution — share of this industry's postings by city (the seven city-page cities), with each city's share of the rest of the market and the over/under index.

Mkt %Rest of marketCityShare of sectorSec %
~50%01Bangalore1.40× over~70%
~15%02Pune0.60× under~9%
~8%03Chennai0.88× under~7%
~15%04Hyderabad0.40× under~6%
~10%05Delhi NCR0.50× under~5%
~1%06Kolkata1.00× par~1%
~4%07Mumbai Region<1%<1%

Share of this sector's postings by city vs the rest of the market. A longer sector wing than market wing means the city over-indexes for this sector here.

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