Semiconductor and hardware jobs in South Korea: chip design, embedded and process roles
472 open semiconductor and hardware roles at 71 companies in South Korea: Chip design, verification and FPGA (34), Hardware engineering and architecture (72), Fab, process and manufacturing engineering (162), Software, DevOps and IT (88), Product, program and leadership (39). None of them states a citizenship or security-check demand. 61 mention relocation support.
rebellions.ai · HQ: Seongnam, South Korea · AI Compute & Inference · AI Chips & Accelerators · Processors, MCUs & AI Chips · 501-1000 employees · Est. 2020 · Startup · Trust C · Hiring 35, 1 new
HQ: Seongnam, South Korea · AI Compute & Inference · AI Chips & Accelerators · Processors, MCUs & AI Chips · 501-1000 employees · Est. 2020 · Startup · Trust C · Hiring 35, 1 new
Rebellions is a South Korean semiconductor company founded in 2020 by former Wall Street quantitative engineers and IBM chip designers to build accelerators specialised for AI inference rather than training. Its ATOM processor targets efficiency per watt in data centre inference, and the follow-on REBEL design uses chiplet packaging to scale to large language model workloads. The company merged with Sapeon Korea, the AI chip unit of the SK group, to consolidate the domestic effort against foreign GPUs, becoming South Korea's first AI semiconductor unicorn and working closely with SK Telecom, KT and Samsung Foundry.
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 2460, 141 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 2460, 141 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.
kla.com · HQ: Milpitas, United States · Semiconductor Equipment · 5000+ employees · Est. 1975 · Trust A · Hiring 983, 65 new
HQ: Milpitas, United States · Semiconductor Equipment · 5000+ employees · Est. 1975 · Trust A · Hiring 983, 65 new
KLA is an American supplier of process control and yield management equipment for semiconductor manufacturing, formed by the 1997 merger of KLA Instruments, founded in 1975, and Tencor Instruments. Its tools inspect wafers, reticles and packaging for defects and measure critical dimensions and overlay, giving chipmakers the feedback they need to keep yields acceptable at advanced nodes. Headquartered in Milpitas, California and listed on Nasdaq, it holds a dominant share of the wafer inspection market and also supplies specialty process and electronic assembly equipment.
≈ $74k – $166k per year (Estimated) · Senior · 5+ years exp · In office (Hwaseong, South Korea) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Senior · English (Optional)
synopsys.com · HQ: Sunnyvale, United States · Simulation & Digital Twin Software · Semiconductor IP & Chip Design Services · EDA Software · 5000+ employees · Est. 1986 · NASDAQ: SNPS · Trust A · Hiring 470, 44 new
HQ: Sunnyvale, United States · Simulation & Digital Twin Software · Semiconductor IP & Chip Design Services · EDA Software · 5000+ employees · Est. 1986 · NASDAQ: SNPS · Trust A · Hiring 470, 44 new
Synopsys is an American software company founded in 1986 that supplies electronic design automation tools used to design and verify integrated circuits, together with a large portfolio of licensable semiconductor IP such as interface, memory and processor blocks. Its 2025 acquisition of Ansys added engineering simulation software for structures, fluids and electromagnetics, while it sold its application security business, now Black Duck, in 2024. Listed on Nasdaq, it hires applications engineers, SoC solutions engineers and R&D staff in the United States, India and Vietnam. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States.
≈ $83k – $211k per year (Estimated) · Lead · 15+ years exp · In office (Seongnam, South Korea) · Bachelor's Degree · Principal · Korean: C1 · English: C1
merckgroup.com · HQ: Darmstadt, Germany · Advanced Materials · Chemical Manufacturing · Laboratory Equipment · Prescription Drugs · 5000+ employees · Est. 1668 · Trust A · Hiring 563, 91 new
HQ: Darmstadt, Germany · Advanced Materials · Chemical Manufacturing · Laboratory Equipment · Prescription Drugs · 5000+ employees · Est. 1668 · Trust A · Hiring 563, 91 new
Merck Group is a global science and technology company headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany. The company operates across three primary business sectors: Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics, delivering innovative medicines, laboratory solutions, and advanced materials. Through its focus on research and technology, it advances medical treatments, supports biopharmaceutical production, and drives key innovations in semiconductor manufacturing worldwide.
furiosa.ai · HQ: Seoul, South Korea · AI Chips & Accelerators · Processors, MCUs & AI Chips · 201-500 employees · Est. 2017 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 57, 6 new
HQ: Seoul, South Korea · AI Chips & Accelerators · Processors, MCUs & AI Chips · 201-500 employees · Est. 2017 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 57, 6 new
FuriosaAI is a South Korean semiconductor company that designs neural processing units for data centre AI inference, including the Warboy chip for computer vision and the RNGD accelerator for large language models and multimodal workloads. Founded in 2017 by former Samsung and AMD engineers, it develops its own compiler and software stack and has offices in Silicon Valley and Singapore. The company is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
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