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Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

embedded systems

194 live US technical postings name embedded systems in August 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 194 postings naming embedded systems that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer83.5%
  2. 2Security Engineer5.7%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer3.1%
  4. 4Machine Learning Engineer2.6%
  5. 5Frontend Engineer2.1%
  6. 6AI Engineer1.5%
  7. 7Full-Stack Engineer1%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where embedded systems is named
n = 39
10th
$140k
25th
$175k
Median
$193k
75th
$222k
90th
$250k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Silicon Valley, CA20.6%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA8.2%
  3. 3Boston, MA5.2%
  4. 4Seattle, WA5.2%
  5. 5Los Angeles, CA4.6%
  6. 6Austin, TX3.1%
  7. 7Remote3.1%
  8. 8Atlanta, GA2.1%

How we counted

457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.