Meta seeks ASIC designers for ML accelerators and datacenter SoCs Meta wants to build accelerators and SoCs to run in its datacenters – for jobs including machine learning – but appears to be struggling to find folks to design them. The Register has spotted numerous job ads for ASIC engineers with expertise in architecture, design, and testing in Bangalore, India, and Sunnyvale, California. …
...and to work for the great satan of social networking
One, I'm not sure you could even lease a one bedroom in an hours drive of the Meta campus for that.
Two, why would you work for that little for Meta or Facebook in the first place? If you have the skills why not work for any of the other top 20.
There aren't a ton of people with prior experience in that field at that level. None of the competent ones need to work that cheap. Cynically I'd say the play is to justify bringing in desperate h1b visa holders on the Elon/Twitter model where you fire everyone that you can't deport as a terror tactic and then take advantage of the fact the labor fines and civil settlements will be a tiny fraction of their profits.
But perhaps I am too cynical for the gentle eyes and ears of those in the forums here... :-)
Wouldn't they have more luck if they tried in for example Cambridge or Sheffield in England?
There isn't much chip design taking place in India. I'm sure there is something, but not that much compared to some other countries.
Of course you may well find lots of Indian people in those other countries working in those places that do have lots of chip design.
I remember reading somewhere that the West has a shortage of chip designers and electronic engineers in general because- for a field that requires a lot of skill and demanding academic qualifications to get into- it pays very poorly compared to the sort of lucrative software development jobs anyone who was good enough for the latter could get into with much less hassle.
> I get paid very handsomely, thanks. And so does my team.
I'm not disagreeing, but "handsomely" compared to what? It may pay above average, but so it should, given that it's a highly-skilled job. The question is how the pay (in whatever country it is that you live in) compares to other fields open to those with a comparable level of skill.
> This UK view of ASIC design being poorly-paid and too difficult is why the UK is now lagging behind.
Only commenting on what I'd heard elsewhere, and I don't recall it coming from someone in the UK.
If nothing else, anyone in the UK who was serious about getting a high-end, well-paid job would likely want to go elsewhere regardless, since the low value that UK employers generally place on technical skills (and are willing to pay, or not pay, for) extends across most fields of that ilk- hardware or software.
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