I built a niche job board for semiconductor designers because finding chip design jobs was genuinely broken

The problem started with a simple, frustrating experience: trying to find a semiconductor design job on LinkedIn or Indeed.

You search "RTL engineer" and get back results for electrical engineers, software engineers, and a random "Real-Time Logistics" coordinator. You search "FPGA engineer" and wade through pages of embedded software roles that have nothing to do with FPGA design. You're a graduating EE student looking for entry-level chip design work or an internship, and every posting either requires 5 years of experience or is so generic you can't tell if it's relevant at all.

The semiconductor industry is one of the most technically specialized fields in engineering. ASIC design, RTL coding, FPGA programming, DFT, physical design, verification, these aren't interchangeable skills. Yet the major job boards treat every engineering job like it's the same. The keyword matching is terrible. The signal-to-noise ratio is exhausting.

And for students and early-career engineers? It's even worse. There's almost no curated place to find semiconductor internships or entry-level chip design roles. Most of them are buried under pages of senior listings with no easy way to filter.

So I built Semiconductor Design Jobs.

It's a dedicated job board built exclusively for semiconductor designers; ASIC, RTL, FPGA, verification, physical design, SoC architecture, and more. Every listing is relevant. No noise.

Here's what I focused on solving:

The FPGA and RTL gap: These are specific, high-demand disciplines with their own toolchains, workflows, and terminology. They deserve their own category, not a buried checkbox on a mega-board.

Entry-level and internship visibility ; If you're breaking into chip design, you can browse entry-level semiconductor jobs and semiconductor design internships without having to sift through senior roles.

Salary transparency : One of the biggest frustrations in the industry is not knowing if you're being paid fairly. I put together a semiconductor salary guide so engineers can benchmark their compensation before walking into negotiations.

Curated, not scraped: Listings are pulled directly from company career pages and curated for accuracy. You can also set up email alerts filtered by category (FPGA, RTL, VLSI, DFT, etc.), job type, and location.

The semiconductor boom isn't slowing down. AI accelerators, automotive chips, advanced packaging, custom silico companies are hiring aggressively and engineers deserve a better way to find those roles.

If you're a chip designer, an FPGA engineer, a student looking for your first internship, or just someone who's tired of wading through irrelevant postings check it out at https://www.semidesignjobs.com.

Happy to answer questions about building in this niche, the job board space, or anything semiconductor-related. Would love feedback from the IH community too!