Firmware: market
Data as of November 11, 2026: 609 open Firmware jobs, 9% of them remote; median advertised salary $12,500/mo (from 83 postings that state a salary). Source: Zorky, updated daily.
A Firmware Engineer writes the embedded software that controls hardware: bootloaders, drivers, low-level protocols and firmware updates — from electronics to robotics and aerospace. We currently track 609 open positions for this role, 532 of them fresh. The core is C and C++, microcontrollers and SoCs, an RTOS, peripheral protocols, on-hardware debugging; Python for test automation. By co-occurrence in requirements, C++, Python, Rust and MATLAB appear most often. 12% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is a live slice of the Firmware Engineer market: geography, seniority, adjacent stack and sources.
The Firmware market currently has 609 open roles, 532 of them freshly observed. Median salary $12,500/mo.
12% of Firmware Engineer postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the format.
⚠ salary known for 83 of 609 jobs; remote share from 452 with a stated format; 532 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Demand and observed supply: Firmware
| Open demand | 609 |
| Observed supply | — not published |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution: Firmware
- usable for the calculation: 83 (13.6%)
- stated but not converted to USD/month: 70 (11.5%)
- not stated: 456 (74.9%)
One in ten postings offers under $5,500, one in ten over $18,336. Half of the postings offer between $8,750 and $16,458. Sample: 83.
The range histogram for Firmware Engineer uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Demand geography: Firmware
| country | jobs | share |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 301 | 54.7% |
| India | 40 | 7.3% |
| Poland | 31 | 5.6% |
| Germany | 24 | 4.4% |
| Canada | 23 | 4.2% |
| United Kingdom | 19 | 3.5% |
| Singapore | 18 | 3.3% |
| Israel | 9 | 1.6% |
| China | 7 | 1.3% |
| Ukraine | 7 | 1.3% |
| Other countries | 71 | 12.9% |
The top country for Firmware Engineer demand is the US (301 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
Share — how many of the 609 jobs in the Firmware market mention this technology. Ordered by job count, not by “strength of association”. Umbrella terms like cloud are not a specific cloud (AWS, Azure).
In Firmware Engineer requirements the most frequently named skills and technologies are C++, Python, Rust and MATLAB.
Demand by grade: Firmware
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 181 |
| principal | 83 |
| junior | 42 |
| lead | 39 |
| middle | 14 |
Senior-and-above is about 84% of 359 Firmware Engineer postings with an explicit grade.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers: Firmware
Demand is spread across 307 employers. The largest accounts for 4.1%, the top ten for 18.3%; the remaining 81.7% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 4.1% |
| top-3 | 8.3% |
| top-10 | 18.3% |
| long tail | 81.7% |
Firmware Engineer openings come from 307 distinct employers; the largest one accounts for only 4.1% of postings — the market is not tied to a single hirer.
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 49 sources; the largest accounts for 25.8% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Firmware Engineer postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings: Firmware
- Firmware Engineer Co-op | Junior | IC
- Teamleiter Firmware (w/m/d) · AT
- Team Lead Firmware (f/m/x) · AT
- Firmware Engineer
- Senior Firmware Engineer · US · $15,438
- Firmware Engineer_BMC (Embedded/ 林口園區) · CN
- Firmware Engineer I · US
- Senior Firmware System Engineer · SG
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 8.
Data as of 2026-11-11
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the Firmware Engineer role — short answers from the same data slice.
What does a Firmware Engineer do?
A Firmware Engineer writes the embedded software that controls hardware: bootloaders, drivers, low-level protocols and firmware updates — from electronics to robotics and aerospace.
Which skills do Firmware Engineer postings require?
The core is C and C++, microcontrollers and SoCs, an RTOS, peripheral protocols, on-hardware debugging; Python for test automation. In the current slice, C++, Python, Rust and MATLAB appear in requirements most often.
How does a Firmware Engineer differ from an Embedded developer?
The line is blurry: firmware is closer to hardware — boot, drivers, registers; embedded is wider and includes device application logic and embedded Linux.
How remote-friendly are Firmware Engineer jobs?
12% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work; the slice tracks 609 open positions.
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