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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 spans integrated chip design, silicon verification, embedded firmware development, and telecommunication hardware systems. Hiring is led by multinational semiconductor giants and networking equipment manufacturers with large research centres in India. The work centers on low-level silicon architecture, board bring-up, real-time operating systems, and hardware-software co-design.

Top companies hiring
Most active employers over the last 4 weeks, by posting volume.
  • Cisco
  • NVIDIA
  • HARMAN
  • NetApp
  • Qualcomm
  • Cadence
  • Roku
  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
  • NXP Semiconductors
  • ABB
  • Agilent Technologies
  • Broadcom
Weekly postings35 weeks
0100200300400Dec 28Jan 25Feb 22Mar 22Apr 19May 17Jun 14Jul 12Aug 09Aug 23postings / wk
Weekly posting counts across the sector.
Weekly active companies35 weeks
020406080100Dec 28Jan 25Feb 22Mar 22Apr 19May 17Jun 14Jul 12Aug 09Aug 23companies / wk
Distinct companies with at least one posting each week.
Section 2 / Profile Distribution

The roles this sector actually hires

Systems and Embedded Engineering heavily dominates hardware and semiconductor hiring, accounting for nearly half of all job postings. QA and Testing and Backend Development follow as secondary technical areas.

Rest of marketLeading profile

  1. Systems & Embedded Engineering+40
  2. Backend Development−6
  3. DevOps & Platform Engineering+2
  4. QA & Testing+2
  5. Fullstack Development−3
  6. AI & LLM Applications−3
  7. Enterprise Platforms−16
  8. Generalist Software Engineer−2
  9. Mobile Development±0
  10. Domain-Specific Development−2
  11. Data Engineering−3
  12. Frontend Development−1
  13. Data Analytics & BI−5
  14. Data Science & ML+1
  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 driven by MNCs & GCCs, which account for the overwhelming majority of hiring. Other company classes represent only a very minor portion of recruitment.

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

  1. MNCs & GCCs55 employers hiring
    This industry~80%
    Rest of market~20%
    • Cisco
    • NVIDIA
    • NetApp
    • HARMAN
    • Qualcomm
  2. Established SMEs17 employers hiring
    This industry~8%
    Rest of market~9%
    • Enphase Energy
    • Barco
    • Celestica
    • Circles
    • Dexcom
  3. IT Services & BPO3 employers hiring
    This industry~3%
    Rest of market~50%
    • Cyient
    • Bosch Global Software Technologies
    • Prodapt
  4. MAANG & Tier-1 Tech1 employer hiring
    This industry~3%
    Rest of market~5%
    • Apple
  5. Unicorns & Indian Product7 employers hiring
    This industry~2%
    Rest of market~6%
    • Platform Science
    • Tarana Wireless
    • d-Matrix
    • Graphcore
    • Lynk
  6. Funded Startups5 employers hiring
    This industry~2%
    Rest of market~3%
    • Tsavorite Scalable Intelligence
    • Blue Bite
    • Constelli
    • FlytBase
    • Skylo
  7. Lala Companies0 employers hiring
    This industry~2%
    Rest of market~3%

    No listed employer hiring in the last 2 weeks.

  8. Staffing & Bodyshops1 employer hiring
    This industrynegligible
    Rest of market~5%
    • Mulya Technologies
Section 4 / City Distribution

Where in India this sector hires

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Bangalore dominates hardware and semiconductor hiring, capturing nearly seven in ten job postings. Chennai serves as a notable secondary hub at just under a tenth of postings, supported by its specialized electronics ecosystem. Hyderabad and Mumbai Region under-index significantly in this domain.

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%02Pune0.53× under~8%
~9%03Chennai0.78× under~7%
~15%04Hyderabad0.40× under~6%
~10%05Delhi NCR0.50× under~5%
~1%06Kolkata1.00× par~1%
~5%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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