Semiconductor jobs for embedded and firmware engineers in China

74 open roles for embedded and firmware engineers at 44 companies in China. None of them states a citizenship or security-check demand. 2 mention relocation support.

Rebuilt 25 Oct 2026
open roles
74
companies
44
open to any nationality
100%
estimated median pay
$58k

Companies hiring

CompanyOpen rolesAny nationalityRelocation
Schneider Electric14100%
Qualcomm4100%
Vertiv4100%
Apple3100%
Razer2100%
Copeland2100%
Infineon Technologies2100%
Thermo Fisher Scientific2100%
Ericsson2100%
Lattice Semiconductor2100%
Analog Devices2100%
Caterpillar2100%
Philips2100%
Canonical1100%
Fibocom1100%

Newest roles

Razer

razer.com
razer.com • HQ: Irvine, United States • Headphones & Audio • Laptops • Computer Peripherals • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2005 • Trust B • Hiring 141, 9 new
HQ: Irvine, United States • Headphones & Audio • Laptops • Computer Peripherals • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2005 • Trust B • Hiring 141, 9 new
Razer is a gaming hardware and lifestyle company founded in 2005 by a Singaporean lawyer and an American engineer who believed gaming peripherals were being designed by people who did not play games. It sells gaming laptops, mice, keyboards, headsets, controllers and chairs, and it built the Chroma lighting ecosystem and Synapse software that turned peripheral configuration into a platform other manufacturers now support. Dual headquartered in Irvine, California and Singapore, it was listed in Hong Kong until being taken private in 2022 and has an unusually devoted following among younger gamers.
Min-Liang Tan · Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
Robert Krakoff · Co-founder · founder
Careers mailbox is known
3 days ago Likely open · 57%

Senior Firmware Engineer

≈ $39k – $90k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 3+ years exp • In office (Shenzhen, China) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
C++
DevOps
RTOS
IoT
FreeRTOS
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Vertiv

vertiv.com
vertiv.com • HQ: Westerville, United States • HVAC & Refrigeration • Power Supplies & Power Electronics • Servers & Data Center Hardware • 5000+ employees • Est. 2016 • Trust B • Hiring 1546, 162 new
HQ: Westerville, United States • HVAC & Refrigeration • Power Supplies & Power Electronics • Servers & Data Center Hardware • 5000+ employees • Est. 2016 • Trust B • Hiring 1546, 162 new
Vertiv is an American company that supplies the power and cooling infrastructure data centres depend on, formed in 2016 when Emerson Electric sold its network power division to Platinum Equity. Its products cover uninterruptible power supplies, switchgear and busway, precision air and liquid cooling, racks and the monitoring software that runs them, sold to hyperscale operators, colocation providers and enterprises. Headquartered in Westerville, Ohio and listed on the New York Stock Exchange, it has become one of the most direct beneficiaries of artificial intelligence build-out because dense computing requires liquid cooling it already makes.
David Fallon · Chief Financial Officer · decision-maker
Giordano Albertazzi · Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
No careers mailbox known
Verified live · 9 min ago 5 days ago Likely open · 47%

DCP-Controller Firmware Engineer (Global)-Xi'an

≈ $14k – $39k per year (Estimated) • In office (Xi'an, China) • Bachelor's Degree
RTOS
Git
Robotics
PID Control
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Verified live · 9 min ago 2 months ago Long shot · 2%

ACP-Firmware Engineering(Global)-Xi'an

≈ $14k – $37k per year (Estimated) • In office (Xi'an, China) • Chinese: C1
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Resideo

resideo.com
resideo.com • HQ: Scottsdale, United States • Access Control & Alarm Systems • Building Automation & Controls • Smart Home Devices • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2018 • Trust A • Hiring 85, 11 new
HQ: Scottsdale, United States • Access Control & Alarm Systems • Building Automation & Controls • Smart Home Devices • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2018 • Trust A • Hiring 85, 11 new
Resideo is an American manufacturer and distributor of smart home, comfort and security products, spun off from Honeywell in 2018. Its Products and Solutions business sells thermostats, water and air controls, security panels and sensors under brands including Honeywell Home and First Alert, while its ADI Global Distribution business supplies security, fire, audio-visual and low-voltage products to professional installers. The company is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States.
No named decision-maker yet.
Careers mailbox is known
Verified live · 3 hours ago 10 days ago Fading · 35%

Sr Firmware Engineer

≈ $36k – $84k per year (Estimated) • Senior • In office (Shanghai, China) • Senior • English: B2
C++
DevOps
RTOS
Wi-Fi
Linux
IoT
Zigbee
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Lattice Semiconductor

latticesemi.com
latticesemi.com • HQ: Hillsboro, United States • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • 501-1000 employees • Est. 1983 • NASDAQ: LSCC • Trust A • Hiring 119, 2 new
HQ: Hillsboro, United States • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • 501-1000 employees • Est. 1983 • NASDAQ: LSCC • Trust A • Hiring 119, 2 new
Lattice Semiconductor is a semiconductor company headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon, designing low-power field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), programmable logic devices and related software for compute, communications, industrial, automotive, consumer and aerospace markets. Founded in 1983 in Oregon's Silicon Forest and listed on Nasdaq, it describes itself as the largest supplier of small FPGAs by installed base, with design and operations centers in San Jose, Pune, Penang, Taipei, Manila and Shanghai. It hires IC and SoC design engineers, firmware and BMC engineers, silicon validation and foundry engineers, field applications engineers, product marketers and finance staff.
No named decision-maker yet.
Careers mailbox is known
Verified live · 1 day ago 10 days ago Hiring now · 90%

Staff Embedded Software Engineer

≈ $49k – $104k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 7+ years exp • In office (Shanghai, China) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
Verilog
C++
Python
DevOps
RTOS
Linux
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Verified live · 1 day ago 1 month ago Fading · 42%

Firmware Engineer

≈ $21k – $51k per year (Estimated) • Junior • 2+ years exp • In office (Kunshan, China) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Junior • English
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Qualcomm

qualcomm.com
qualcomm.com • HQ: San Diego, United States • Headphones & Audio • Smartphones • Consumer Electronics • Edge AI • Autonomous Driving • Car Electronics • RF & Wireless Hardware • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • 5000+ employees • Est. 1985 • Trust B • Hiring 1851, 32 new
HQ: San Diego, United States • Headphones & Audio • Smartphones • Consumer Electronics • Edge AI • Autonomous Driving • Car Electronics • RF & Wireless Hardware • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • 5000+ employees • Est. 1985 • Trust B • Hiring 1851, 32 new
Qualcomm is an American semiconductor and wireless technology company founded in 1985 and headquartered in San Diego, California. It holds foundational patents in CDMA and the 3G, 4G and 5G cellular standards, licensing them to nearly every handset maker in the world, while its chip division designs the Snapdragon platforms that power a large share of Android smartphones, personal computers, wearables and connected cars. The company has been diversifying away from smartphone dependence into automotive digital cockpit and driver assistance systems, industrial internet of things, and on-device AI processing through its Hexagon and Oryon architectures.
Akash Palkhiwala · Chief Financial Officer & Chief Operating Officer · decision-maker
Cristiano Amon · President & Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
Andrew Viterbi · Co-Founder · founder
Irwin Jacobs · Co-Founder & former Chairman · founder
No careers mailbox known
Verified live · 1 hour ago 10 days ago Hiring now · 90%

Customer Engineer, IoT Connectivity Systems

≈ $41k – $95k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 6+ years exp • In office (Shanghai, China) • Bachelor's Degree • Senior • English: B2
Python
DevOps
Wi-Fi
QA
Rest-Assured
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Open 236 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago 7 months ago Long shot · 11%

2026 Intern-Embedded SW Engineer(SOC)

Intern • In office (Shanghai, China) • Internship • Intern
Rest-Assured
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cadence.com • HQ: San Jose, United States • Semiconductor IP & Chip Design Services • EDA Software • 5000+ employees • Est. 1988 • NASDAQ: CDNS • Trust B • Hiring 472, 31 new
HQ: San Jose, United States • Semiconductor IP & Chip Design Services • EDA Software • 5000+ employees • Est. 1988 • NASDAQ: CDNS • Trust B • Hiring 472, 31 new
Cadence Design Systems is an American software company founded in 1988 that supplies the electronic design automation tools engineers use to design and verify integrated circuits. Its products cover digital synthesis and place-and-route, custom and analogue design, circuit simulation with the Spectre and Virtuoso families, functional verification, and increasingly system-level analysis for packaging, thermal behaviour and computational fluid dynamics. Headquartered in San Jose and listed on Nasdaq, it also licenses design intellectual property such as processor and interface blocks, and competes primarily with Synopsys and Siemens EDA.
John Wall · Chief Financial Officer · decision-maker
Anirudh Devgan · President and Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
No careers mailbox known
Verified live · 1 day ago 11 days ago Likely open · 63%

Firmware Engineer II

≈ $36k – $81k per year (Estimated) • Middle • In office (Beijing, Shanghai, China) • Full-Time • Middle
Verilog
Perl
TCL Scripting
Python
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Skills these roles ask for

C++ 31Linux 23RTOS 14Python 11Git 8CI/CD 7Wi-Fi 5C# 5Rust 4MQTT 4Embedded C 4FreeRTOS 4Jenkins 3Java 3Verilog 3Ubuntu 2

Where the roles are

Shanghai 23Shenzhen 12Suzhou 7Xi'an 6Beijing 6Chengdu 4Wuxi 4Kunshan 2Chongqing 2Tianjin 1

Questions

Can a foreigner apply for these roles?

74 of the 74 roles here state no citizenship or security-check demand. A role that does says so in its advert, and the card marks it.

Which companies hire most chip and hardware engineers?

Schneider Electric (14), Qualcomm (4), Vertiv (4), Apple (3), Razer (2).

Which roles count here?

Every hardware, chip design, embedded, electrical and semiconductor process role at any employer, and the engineering, science, technician and IT roles of the semiconductor companies - chip designers, fabs and foundries, equipment makers, photonics. Their sales, finance and office roles are left out.

How fresh is this?

Every role is re-checked on the employer's own careers board at least every 48 hours, and the page is rebuilt every night.

Source: 74 live postings on employers' careers boardsUpdated 25 Oct 2026MethodologyJSONCC BY-SA 4.0