FPGA: market
An FPGA Engineer designs digital logic on FPGAs: high-speed signal processing, interfaces and accelerators — for telecom, radar, trading and chip prototyping. We currently track 192 open positions for this role, 184 of them fresh. The core is VHDL or Verilog/SystemVerilog, verification (UVM), timing analysis, Vivado or Quartus tools, Python or TCL scripting and MATLAB for algorithms. By co-occurrence in requirements, Python, C++, MATLAB and Perl appear most often. 10% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is a live slice of the FPGA Engineer market: geography, seniority, adjacent stack and sources.
The FPGA market currently has 192 open roles, 184 of them freshly observed. Median salary $14,166/mo.
10% of FPGA Engineer postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the format.
⚠ salary known for 19 of 192 jobs; remote share from 160 with a stated format; 184 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Demand and observed supply: FPGA
| Open demand | 192 |
| Observed supply | — not published |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution: FPGA
One in ten earns under $4,250, one in ten over $21,416. Half the market falls between $10,232 and $16,666. Sample: 19.
The range histogram for FPGA Engineer uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
⚠ percentiles from 19 salaries out of 192 jobs — a guide on a small sample
Demand geography: FPGA
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| US | 104 |
| GB | 14 |
| DE | 13 |
| PL | 5 |
| RU | 5 |
| IN | 4 |
| UA | 3 |
| CA | 3 |
| NL | 3 |
| FR | 3 |
The top country for FPGA Engineer demand is the US (104 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
In FPGA Engineer requirements the most frequently named skills and technologies are Python, C++, MATLAB and Perl.
Demand by grade: FPGA
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 59 |
| principal | 25 |
| lead | 8 |
| middle | 5 |
| junior | 5 |
Senior-and-above is about 90% of 102 FPGA Engineer postings with an explicit grade.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers: FPGA
Demand is spread across 106 employers. The largest accounts for 9.6%, the top ten for 35.6%; the remaining 64.4% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 9.6% |
| top-3 | 19.2% |
| top-10 | 35.6% |
| long tail | 64.4% |
FPGA Engineer openings come from 106 distinct employers; the largest one accounts for only 9.6% 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 28 sources; the largest accounts for 37.0% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
FPGA Engineer postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings: FPGA
- Senior FPGA Engineer · US
- FPGA-Entwickler (w/m/d) für Lasersteuerungssysteme · DE
- 🚀 FPGA Engineer · UA
- Projektmaster (3 Semester): Entwicklung einer transparenten USB-Verlängerung als FPGA-IP-Core · DE
- Senior FPGA Engineer · PL · $4,250
- Electronic Systems (FPGA) Physicist– Laser-Plasma Diagnostics · DE
- FPGA Digital Design Engineer (6+ month Contract) · CA
- Senior FPGA Engineer (m/w/d) – Direktvermittlung (m/w/d) · DE
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 2026-10-26
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the FPGA Engineer role — short answers from the same data slice.
What does an FPGA Engineer do?
An FPGA Engineer designs digital logic on FPGAs: high-speed signal processing, interfaces and accelerators — for telecom, radar, trading and chip prototyping.
Which skills do FPGA Engineer postings require?
The core is VHDL or Verilog/SystemVerilog, verification (UVM), timing analysis, Vivado or Quartus tools, Python or TCL scripting and MATLAB for algorithms. In the current slice, Python, C++, MATLAB and Perl appear in requirements most often.
How does an FPGA engineer differ from an embedded programmer?
They describe not a program but hardware logic running in parallel at the clock level; the mindset is closer to circuit design than programming.
How remote-friendly are FPGA Engineer jobs?
10% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work; the slice tracks 192 open positions.
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