Semiconductor and hardware jobs in Japan: chip design, embedded and process roles

767 open semiconductor and hardware roles at 165 companies in Japan: Embedded and firmware (150), Hardware engineering and architecture (148), Fab, process and manufacturing engineering (230), Software, DevOps and IT (57), AI and data (43), Product, program and leadership (72). None of them states a citizenship or security-check demand. 58 mention relocation support.

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open roles
767
companies
165
open to any nationality
100%
median stated pay
$51k

Companies hiring

CompanyOpen rolesAny nationalityRelocation
Micron Technology110100%1
Renesas Electronics81100%
Preferred Networks51100%
Applied Materials43100%43
ASML27100%5
Lumentum21100%
Honda20100%
NVIDIA14100%
KLA Corporation14100%
GENETEC12100%
Konica Minolta11100%
Nippon Avionics9100%
Douzang MAMEZO9100%
SEASIDE SAS8100%
onsemi8100%

Newest roles

NVIDIA

nvidia.com
nvidia.com • HQ: Santa Clara, United States • Computer Components • Servers & Data Center Hardware • AI Chips & Accelerators • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • 5000+ employees • Est. 1993 • Trust B • Hiring 2399, 148 new
HQ: Santa Clara, United States • Computer Components • Servers & Data Center Hardware • AI Chips & Accelerators • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • 5000+ employees • Est. 1993 • Trust B • Hiring 2399, 148 new
NVIDIA is an American technology company founded in 1993 that invented the graphics processing unit and has become the dominant supplier of accelerated computing platforms for artificial intelligence. Its portfolio spans data centre GPUs and systems built on the Hopper and Blackwell architectures, GeForce consumer graphics, automotive and robotics platforms, high-speed networking acquired with Mellanox, and the CUDA software stack that binds the ecosystem together. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the company sells to cloud providers, enterprises, research institutions and gamers worldwide and is one of the most valuable listed businesses on the Nasdaq.
Jensen Huang · Co-Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
Jay Puri · Executive Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations · decision-maker
Colette Kress · Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer · decision-maker
Curtis Priem · Co-Founder & former Chief Technical Officer · founder
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Verified live · 3 hours ago 8 hours ago Likely open · 63%

Developer Relations Manager, Agentic AI — Japan

≈ $71k – $156k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 6+ years exp • In office (Tokyo, Japan) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior • Japanese • English
Python
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
Function Calling
CUDA
NVIDIA NeMo
Agentic Workflows
Multi-Agent Systems
LLM
AI Agents
DevOps
Git
Linux
+3
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Verified live · 3 hours ago 12 days ago Likely open · 60%

Senior Project Delivery Manager - NVIS

≈ $70k – $180k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 5+ years exp • In office (Tokyo, Japan) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior • English
InfiniBand
DevOps
HPC
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Renesas Electronics

renesas.com
renesas.com • HQ: Tokyo, Japan • Automotive Components • Analog & Power Semiconductors • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • 5000+ employees • Est. 2003 • Trust B • Hiring 679, 98 new
HQ: Tokyo, Japan • Automotive Components • Analog & Power Semiconductors • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • 5000+ employees • Est. 2003 • Trust B • Hiring 679, 98 new
Renesas Electronics is a Japanese semiconductor company formed in 2003 when Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electric combined their chip divisions, later absorbing NEC Electronics as well. It is one of the largest suppliers of microcontrollers in the world and holds a particularly strong position in automotive silicon, where its R-Car processors and body and powertrain controllers sit inside a large share of vehicles built globally. It has spent the past decade buying into analog and connectivity through Intersil, IDT, Dialog and Altium, broadening from bare microcontrollers into complete embedded systems for industrial and internet of things customers.
Bunsei Kure · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Tetsuya Tsurumaru · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Shuhei Shinkai · Chief Financial Officer · decision-maker
Hidetoshi Shibata · President & Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
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Verified live · 1 hour ago 1 day ago Likely open · 63%

Fab Technician 3

Middle • In office (Hitachinaka, Japan) • Full-Time • Junior • Japanese
Agile
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Verified live · 1 hour ago 1 day ago Likely open · 63%

Sr Process Engineer

Senior • In office (Nakatsu, Japan) • Full-Time • Middle • English
HPC
Management
Agile
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Micron Technology

micron.com
micron.com • HQ: Boise, United States • Enterprise Storage Systems • Semiconductor Manufacturing • Memory & Storage Chips • 5000+ employees • Est. 1978 • NASDAQ: MU • Trust A • Hiring 2544, 159 new
HQ: Boise, United States • Enterprise Storage Systems • Semiconductor Manufacturing • Memory & Storage Chips • 5000+ employees • Est. 1978 • NASDAQ: MU • Trust A • Hiring 2544, 159 new
Micron Technology is an American semiconductor company founded in Boise, Idaho in 1978 and one of only a handful of manufacturers of both DRAM and NAND flash memory. It designs and fabricates memory and storage products used in data centres, personal computers, smartphones, cars and industrial equipment, and sells them under the Micron and consumer-facing Crucial brands. High-bandwidth memory for AI accelerators has become the fastest-growing part of the business, and the company operates fabrication and assembly sites across the United States and Asia.
Mark Murphy · Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer · decision-maker
Sanjay Mehrotra · Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
Joe Parkinson · Co-Founder & former Chief Executive Officer · founder
Ward Parkinson · Co-Founder · founder
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Verified live · 4 hours ago 1 day ago Hiring now · 70%

LPDRAM Product Engineer

In office (Hashimoto, Japan) • Full-Time
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Verified live · 4 hours ago 2 days ago Hiring now · 70%

半導体欠陥分析技術開発エンジニア / RDA Process Development Engineer

In office (Hiroshima, Japan) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Japanese: C1 • English: B2
Anthropic
Claude
Copilot
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Rapyuta Robotics

rapyuta-robotics.com
rapyuta-robotics.com • HQ: Tokyo, Japan • Robotic Software & Control Systems • Logistics & Warehouse Robotics • Warehousing • 201-500 employees • Est. 2014 • Trust A • Hiring 32, 2 new
HQ: Tokyo, Japan • Robotic Software & Control Systems • Logistics & Warehouse Robotics • Warehousing • 201-500 employees • Est. 2014 • Trust A • Hiring 32, 2 new
Rapyuta Robotics is a robotics company that develops cloud-connected robots and software for warehouse and logistics automation. Its products include autonomous mobile picking assistants and an automated storage and retrieval system, run on its own robotics platform for fleet management and deployment, and are used by third-party logistics providers and retailers in Japan and abroad. The company was spun out of ETH Zurich and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Verified live · 3 hours ago Visa sponsorship 2 days ago Hiring now · 86%

Senior Electronics Engineer - Robotics

≈ $44k – $101k per year (Estimated) • Senior • In office (Tokyo, Japan) • Relocation • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior • Japanese • English
Python
Chips/EDA
Altium Designer
KiCad
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Verified live · 3 hours ago Visa sponsorship 11 days ago Hiring now · 86%

Embedded Software Engineer - Robotics

In office (Kōtō, Japan) • Relocation • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time
C++
DevOps
RTOS
IoT
FreeRTOS
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ASML

asml.com
asml.com • HQ: Veldhoven, Netherlands • Semiconductor Equipment • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1984 • Trust B • Hiring 618, 82 new
HQ: Veldhoven, Netherlands • Semiconductor Equipment • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1984 • Trust B • Hiring 618, 82 new
ASML is a semiconductor equipment manufacturer specializing in high-precision photolithography systems, computational lithography software, and metrology and inspection solutions. Headquartered in Veldhoven, Netherlands, the enterprise is the world’s sole supplier of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines - including next-generation High-NA EUV platforms - alongside a broad portfolio of deep ultraviolet (DUV) systems. Through its global network of R&D centers, manufacturing facilities, and field support services across Europe, Asia, and North America, the organization enables global semiconductor foundries and chipmakers to fabricate advanced logic and memory microchips.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Verified live · 4 hours ago 2 days ago Likely open · 63%

EUV Field Service Engineer (Kumamoto jasm)

In office (Kumamoto, Japan) • Full-Time
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Verified live · 4 hours ago 17 days ago Long shot · 17%

Field Service Engineer

In office (Tsuruoka, Japan) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time
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Marvell Technology

marvell.com
marvell.com • HQ: Santa Clara, United States • Network Equipment • AI Chips & Accelerators • Optics & Photonic Components • Semiconductor IP & Chip Design Services • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • 5000+ employees • Est. 1995 • NASDAQ: MRVL • Trust A • Hiring 307, 27 new
HQ: Santa Clara, United States • Network Equipment • AI Chips & Accelerators • Optics & Photonic Components • Semiconductor IP & Chip Design Services • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • 5000+ employees • Est. 1995 • NASDAQ: MRVL • Trust A • Hiring 307, 27 new
Marvell Technology is an American fabless semiconductor company founded in 1995 that designs the infrastructure silicon behind data centres, carrier networks and storage systems. Its portfolio covers electro-optics and digital signal processors for optical links, ethernet switching and physical layer devices, storage controllers, and custom application specific integrated circuits designed for individual cloud operators. Headquartered in Santa Clara and listed on Nasdaq, it reoriented itself over the past decade from consumer and storage chips toward data centre and artificial intelligence infrastructure, which now supplies the majority of its revenue.
Matt Murphy · Chairman and Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
Weili Dai · Co-founder · founder
Sehat Sutardja · Co-founder · founder
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Verified live · 2 days ago 3 days ago Hiring now · 90%

Intern, Application Engineer

≈ $17k – $37k per year (Estimated) • Intern • In office (Hiratsuka, Japan) • Bachelor's Degree • Internship • Intern • Japanese
MATLAB
Python
AI/ML
ChatGPT
Copilot
DevOps
Linux
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Skills these roles ask for

C++ 186Python 144Linux 80Agile 55Verilog 43AWS 40MATLAB 40C# 37Java 35LLM 29Git 28Windows 28VHDL 28Machine Learning 27RTOS 27Photolithography 27

Where the roles are

Tokyo 283Hiroshima 118Yokohama 57Kodaira 48Nagoya 29Kumamoto 25Sagamihara 18Yokkaichi 17Osaka 16Kawasaki 15

Chip and hardware roles that fit you

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Questions

Can a foreigner apply for these roles?

767 of the 767 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?

Micron Technology (110), Renesas Electronics (81), Preferred Networks (51), Applied Materials (43), ASML (27).

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.

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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: 767 live postings on employers' careers boardsUpdated 24 Oct 2026MethodologyJSONCC BY-SA 4.0