Semiconductor jobs for hardware engineers and architects in Malaysia

99 open roles for hardware engineers and architects at 25 companies in Malaysia. None of them states a citizenship or security-check demand. 3 mention relocation support.

Rebuilt 24 Oct 2026
open roles
99
companies
25
open to any nationality
100%
estimated median pay
$36k

Companies hiring

CompanyOpen rolesAny nationalityRelocation
AMD15100%
Intel14100%1
Celestica12100%
Altera10100%
Keysight7100%
Lattice Semiconductor7100%
Renesas Electronics5100%
Centific4100%
Dyson3100%
Microchip Technology3100%
HP2100%2
Broadcom2100%
Micron Technology2100%
Bitdeer Technologies Group2100%
Vishay Intertechnology1100%

Newest roles

Centific

centific.com
centific.com • HQ: Redmond, United States • AI Consulting & Integration • AI Evaluation & Observability • AI Training Data & Annotation • Translation Services • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2020 • IT services • Trust C • Hiring 67, 2 new
HQ: Redmond, United States • AI Consulting & Integration • AI Evaluation & Observability • AI Training Data & Annotation • Translation Services • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2020 • IT services • Trust C • Hiring 67, 2 new
Centific is an American company spun out of the localisation group Pactera EDGE that supplies the data, evaluation and engineering services artificial intelligence systems need in production. Its work covers multilingual training data collection and annotation, human evaluation of model outputs, red teaming, and the engineering to deploy models into enterprise and retail environments, drawing on a contributor network spanning many languages and markets. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, it works with large technology companies and enterprises, and its heritage in localisation is what gave it the global human capacity this work requires.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Verified live · 11 hours ago 1 day ago Likely open · 63%

Hardware Test Automation Engineer

≈ $19k – $43k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • In office (George Town, Malaysia) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior • English: C1
SQL
Python
AI/ML
RAG
Claude Code
DevOps
Windows
CI/CD
gRPC
Bazel
Analytics
Matplotlib
MedTech
Verification & Validation
+2
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Verified live · 11 hours ago 22 days ago Likely open · 56%

Senior Hardware Validation Engineer (IC5)

≈ $20k – $46k per year (Estimated) • Senior • In office (George Town, Malaysia) • Full-Time • Senior
RAG
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Keysight

keysight.com
keysight.com • HQ: Santa Rosa, United States • EDA Software • Test & Measurement Instruments • Simulation & Digital Twin Software • 5000+ employees • Est. 2014 • Trust B • Hiring 591, 67 new
HQ: Santa Rosa, United States • EDA Software • Test & Measurement Instruments • Simulation & Digital Twin Software • 5000+ employees • Est. 2014 • Trust B • Hiring 591, 67 new
Keysight is an American maker of electronic test and measurement equipment and software, spun off from Agilent Technologies in 2014. It sells oscilloscopes, network and signal analysers, and design and simulation software used in wireless, semiconductor, automotive and aerospace development, and acquired the French simulation firm ESI Group in 2024. The company is headquartered in Santa Rosa, California, United States.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Verified live · 1 hour ago 1 day ago Likely open · 63%

Senior R&D Digital Hardware Engineer

≈ $22k – $50k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • In office (George Town, Malaysia) • PhD • Senior
C#
C++
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Verified live · 1 hour ago 3 days ago Likely open · 63%

Product Engineer

≈ $15k – $36k per year (Estimated) • Junior • 2+ years exp • In office (George Town, Malaysia) • Bachelor's Degree • Junior
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gf.com • HQ: Malta, United States • Semiconductor Manufacturing • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2009 • NASDAQ: GFS • Trust B • Hiring 675, 68 new
HQ: Malta, United States • Semiconductor Manufacturing • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2009 • NASDAQ: GFS • Trust B • Hiring 675, 68 new
GlobalFoundries is a semiconductor foundry headquartered in Malta, New York, near Albany, that manufactures chips for other companies on FD-SOI, FinFET, RF, silicon germanium, silicon photonics, power and GaN process technologies, and also offers MIPS processor designs. Founded in 2009 and listed on Nasdaq, it runs fabs in New York, Vermont, Dresden and Singapore with engineering and design centres in Austin, Santa Clara, Bengaluru and Penang. It hires process, equipment, yield and tapeout engineers, maintenance technicians and apprentices, field application engineers and interns in engineering and finance.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Verified live · 5 hours ago 2 days ago Likely open · 63%

Principal Engineer - Ecosystem IP Quality

≈ $24k – $55k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 10+ years exp • In office (George Town, Malaysia) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Principal
Verilog
SystemVerilog
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Intel

intel.com
intel.com • HQ: Santa Clara, United States • Computer Components • AI Chips & Accelerators • Semiconductor Manufacturing • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • 5000+ employees • Est. 1968 • NASDAQ: INTC • Trust B • Hiring 658, 122 new
HQ: Santa Clara, United States • Computer Components • AI Chips & Accelerators • Semiconductor Manufacturing • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • 5000+ employees • Est. 1968 • NASDAQ: INTC • Trust B • Hiring 658, 122 new
Intel is an American semiconductor company founded in 1968 by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore and headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It created the x86 instruction set that still underpins most personal computers and servers, and designs and manufactures processors, chipsets, discrete graphics, networking silicon and AI accelerators. Unlike most of its competitors the company owns its fabrication plants, and it is investing heavily in Intel Foundry to manufacture chips for external customers while rebuilding its process technology leadership.
Christoph Schell · Executive Officer · decision-maker
Michelle Holthaus · Executive Officer · decision-maker
April Miller Boise · Executive Officer · decision-maker
Steven Rodgers · Executive Officer · decision-maker
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Verified live · 4 hours ago 2 days ago Likely open · 63%

E-core CPU Layout Design Engineer

≈ $30k – $61k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 9+ years exp • Hybrid (George Town, Kulim, Malaysia) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
Perl
DevOps
Unix
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Verified live · 4 hours ago 2 days ago Hiring now · 70%

Platform Hardware Design Engineer

≈ $22k – $50k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 7+ years exp • In office (George Town, Malaysia) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior • English: C1
Python
Chips/EDA
Ansys HFSS
Cadence Allegro
OrCAD
Cadence Sigrity
Ansys SIwave
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Celestica

celestica.com
celestica.com • HQ: Toronto, Canada • Electronics Manufacturing • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1994 • NYSE: CLS • Hiring 673, 181 new
HQ: Toronto, Canada • Electronics Manufacturing • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1994 • NYSE: CLS • Hiring 673, 181 new
Celestica is a Canadian electronics manufacturing company founded in 1994 and headquartered in Toronto. It designs and builds hardware for data centre, aerospace and industrial customers. The company operates sites on several continents.
No named decision-maker yet.
No careers mailbox known
Verified live · 1 hour ago 2 days ago Hiring now · 90%

Lead Engineer, FPGA Design (Advanced Technology Solutions)

≈ $23k – $52k per year (Estimated) • Lead • George Town • Remote (Malaysia) • Staff
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Verified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago Hiring now · 90%

Senior Lead Digital Hardware Engineer (Advanced Technology Solutions)

≈ $24k – $54k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 5+ years exp • George Town • Remote (Malaysia) • Bachelor's Degree • Staff • English
Verilog
SystemVerilog
VHDL
Chips/EDA
Altium Designer
Cadence Allegro
OrCAD
SpaceTech
FMEA
Life Sciences
Design of Experiments
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AMD

amd.com
amd.com • HQ: Santa Clara, United States • Computer Components • AI Chips & Accelerators • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1969 • Trust B • Hiring 1056, 98 new
HQ: Santa Clara, United States • Computer Components • AI Chips & Accelerators • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1969 • Trust B • Hiring 1056, 98 new
AMD is an American semiconductor company founded in 1969 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, that designs processors, graphics chips and adaptive computing hardware without owning fabrication plants. Its Ryzen and Threadripper processors and Radeon graphics serve consumers and creators, EPYC server chips have taken a large share of the data centre market from Intel, and the Instinct accelerators compete for AI training and inference workloads. The 2022 acquisition of Xilinx added field-programmable gate arrays and adaptive systems on chip, and the company also supplies the custom silicon inside the PlayStation and Xbox consoles.
Jean Hu · Chief Financial Officer · decision-maker
Lisa Su · Chair & Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
Jerry Sanders · Co-Founder & former Chief Executive Officer · founder
Victor Peng · former President of Adaptive and Embedded Computing
No careers mailbox known
Verified live · 1 hour ago 5 days ago Likely open · 63%

Staff Package Design Engineer

≈ $27k – $56k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 5+ years exp • In office (George Town, Malaysia) • Bachelor's Degree • Staff
Ansys HFSS
Cadence Allegro
Cadence Sigrity
Keysight ADS
Ansys SIwave
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Intern • In office (George Town, Malaysia) • Bachelor's Degree • Intern
Synopsys HSPICE
Ansys HFSS
Ansys SIwave
SpaceTech
ANSYS
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Skills these roles ask for

Python 24Verilog 22SystemVerilog 19VHDL 15Perl 11C++ 7Cadence Allegro 5Unix 5HPC 5RAG 5FMEA 5Synopsys PrimeTime 5SQL 4Agile 4Linux 4JMP 4

Where the roles are

George Town 84Bayan Lepas 5Kulim 3Johor Bahru 3Seremban 2Kuala Lumpur 1Kulai 1Bukit Damansara 1Austin 1

Questions

Can a foreigner apply for these roles?

99 of the 99 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?

AMD (15), Intel (14), Celestica (12), Altera (10), Keysight (7).

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