Taiwan

Feeny is tracking about 822 open tech roles in Taiwan, from roughly 105 companies hiring. Each listing comes straight from a company's own careers page, so a role here is one they're actively filling. Most of it runs through Taipei, with the semiconductor world clustered around Hsinchu. Filter by discipline to focus the set.

Taipei is the main hub for most tech roles, especially on the software and startup side. The semiconductor industry sits a short distance away around Hsinchu Science Park, where the chip supply chain is densest. So the map is really Taipei for software and Hsinchu for hardware and chips. Across the 1 we index, that split defines where the work lives.

Taiwan is the heart of the global semiconductor industry, and TSMC anchors a deep hardware supply chain around Hsinchu. The large public chip and hardware firms dominate hiring by a wide margin. A smaller software and crypto startup scene sits in Taipei for people who want product work over silicon. Feeny lists roles from about 105 companies, so the live openings are worth checking directly.

Chip design and manufacturing lead everything, given TSMC and the dense supply chain feeding the world's semiconductors. Hardware engineering more broadly is the second major category, from components to systems. Software work exists but sits in the minority, mostly in Taipei's smaller startup and crypto scene. If you build silicon or hardware, this is one of the best places on earth to do it.

For hardware and chip engineers, Taiwan offers proximity to the center of the entire semiconductor industry, which is hard to find anywhere else. Cost of living in Taipei is moderate for a major Asian tech city, and quality of life draws a lot of people. The software scene is smaller, so pure product engineers have fewer options than they would in a bigger startup market. The honest trade is that this is a hardware country first, and that shapes what work is available.

Taiwan is more open to skilled foreigners than most of East Asia, and the Employment Gold Card is a genuine draw: a combined work-and-residence permit aimed squarely at foreign professionals. Outside that, the standard route is an employer-sponsored work permit tied to a specific job. The Gold Card in particular lets qualified people arrive without a job lined up first, which is rare in the region. For skilled engineers, this is one of the friendlier markets in Asia to relocate into.