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Recruiting for the hardware, firmware, RF, and FPGA engineers who build the physical stack underneath every electronic product.
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Every physical product with electronics in it needs some version of the same stack: a circuit board, code that runs directly on that board, and sometimes custom logic hardware that is not quite "code" in the traditional sense at all. Recruiters coming from general software hiring tend to flatten all of this into "hardware" or "embedded," when it is actually several distinct disciplines layered on top of each other, each drawing from a different academic and career background. This page breaks the stack apart layer by layer, so a title like "Firmware Validation Engineer" or "FPGA Engineer" stops being a mystery and starts being a specific, placeable seat.
Highlighted pills — primary tools most commonly listed in job descriptions for this discipline.
Before sourcing against any title in this stack, ask which layer the role actually sits in: does this person design the physical board, write code that assumes no operating system, write code that runs on top of one, or design hardware logic that is not code at all? That one question routes a candidate search correctly far more often than pattern-matching on the job title alone.