Jiwei network news, the recent 2022 "Talent Market Insight and Salary Guide" report released by the Cree International Market Research Center shows that in the context of the continuous shortage of chip supply, the field of integrated circuits continues to be hot, the salaries of various functions have risen across the board, experienced engineers, high-end talents, and compound talents are very lacking, and the chip talent market in Shanghai is particularly fierce.
Among them, the CPU/GPU leader, the leader of heterogeneous computing, and the annual salary of the DIRECTOR of AI chip research and development have reached the range of 2 million to 5 million yuan, the former salary increase is as high as 20 to 30%, and the latter is also up to 10 to 30%. Among them, design positions are still in the fastest growth type, and the increase in job hopping can be as much as 50%. The salary of EDA software R&D engineers also came to 60 to 1.2 million yuan, an increase of 20 to 40%.
According to Cree International data, the main talent gap and hot positions in the chip field this year are concentrated in IC design engineers, IC verification engineers, EDA software research and development engineers, semiconductor model development, digital verification engineers, FPGA experts, wafer packaging engineers; analog IC design engineers, physical back-end engineers, IP experts, CPU core design engineers, CPU verification engineers, ISP design engineers, SoC system architects, AI chip R&D directors, navigation chip R&D directors, CPU/GPU leaders, etc. Overall, high-end leading talents are scarce, and middle-level talents are not as abundant as foreign countries.
In terms of regions, the jiangsu and Zhejiang regions with a prominent talent gap are popular positions in the field of integrated circuits this year, including digital IC design engineers, ASIC design engineers, FPGA engineers, analog IC design engineers, RF IC design engineers, RF module design engineers, etc. In the Greater Bay Area, chip procurement experts/directors have become urgently needed positions; in the northwest region (mainly Xi'an), IC design/verification, simulation design and other positions are the most popular.
Zhang Yuan, vice president of Cree International, pointed out that from the upstream and downstream of the entire chip industry chain, the demand for talents in each link of the industrial chain is very high, especially the design and research and development talents, and the basic quality requirements for practitioners are high. From the perspective of salary, the salary level of the industry has risen significantly this year, and the main positions with higher increases are concentrated in design and research and development positions. Due to the long talent training cycle of the chip industry, the current stock of talents is difficult to keep up with the development speed of the industry.
From the perspective of the long-term development of the industry, whether it is the cultivation of industrial talents or the development of talents, it is urgent to multi-party collaboration and more policy support. In addition to the cultivation of high-end talents, it is more important to cultivate and retain general technical practitioners. In order to cope with the shortage of talents in the industry, more and more chip companies are also making efforts to recruit talents for universities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan, Xi'an and other places, and continuously expand the team of industrial talents. (Proofreading/Mike)