On: Ask HN: Are you contracting on the side (while working full time)?

[icelancer]

>> Embedded development is also pretty much in demand, more so if you have FPGA skills as well.

Extremely so. Demand is vastly outpacing supply for engineers in this growing sector.

[elcritch → icelancer]

Doesn’t that fall in EE realm, where salaries are lower than software or even web dev?

[non-entity → elcritch]

Not just that, I can get work as a software developer without any formal education whatsoever. I cant imagine that happening in a more mature engineering field like EE.

[elcritch → non-entity]

Good question. i wonder what areas FPGA programmers are needed. It seems an fpga for interfacing electronics would be somewhat different than just using fpga's to speed up machine learning processing.