--- title: 'Tech & AI jobs in Taiwan' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/location/taiwan' type: 'location' --- # Tech & AI jobs in Taiwan > Taiwan is the beating heart of the global semiconductor industry, home to TSMC and a dense hardware supply chain around Hsinchu Science Park. The public giants dominate, but a smaller software and crypto startup scene has grown in Taipei. The roles skew chip design and manufacturing, hardware, and increasingly AI infrastructure. - **Open roles:** 567 - **Hiring companies:** 81 - **Region type:** country - **Timezone:** Asia/Taipei - **Population:** 23,400,000 - **Cost of living:** below the US average, home to the world's most advanced chip manufacturing. - **Climate:** Subtropical to tropical, hot and humid with a rainy season and summer typhoons. Milder in the north around Taipei. - **Page:** https://feeny.ai/location/taiwan ## Cities in Taiwan - [Taipei](https://feeny.ai/location/taiwan/taipei) — 376 jobs ## Top companies hiring in Taiwan - [Appier](https://feeny.ai/companies/appier) — 53 open roles - [AIFT](https://feeny.ai/companies/aift) — 24 open roles - [Tomofun | Furbo Pet Camera](https://feeny.ai/companies/tomofun-furbo-pet-camera) — 10 open roles - [BBPOS Limited](https://feeny.ai/companies/bbpos-limited) — 12 open roles - [Coupang](https://feeny.ai/companies/coupang) — 125 open roles - [Hyphen Connect Limited](https://feeny.ai/companies/hyphen-connect-limited) — 76 open roles - [Peloton](https://feeny.ai/companies/peloton) — 8 open roles - [Etched](https://feeny.ai/companies/etched) — 11 open roles - [Astera Labs](https://feeny.ai/companies/astera-labs) — 12 open roles - [Bjak ](https://feeny.ai/companies/bjak) — 30 open roles - [Canonical](https://feeny.ai/companies/canonical) — 12 open roles - [Graphcore](https://feeny.ai/companies/graphcore) — 10 open roles ## Top Universities **Where Taiwan's tech talent studies** National Taiwan University is the country's flagship (Yahoo's Jerry Yang and multiple presidents studied there), and National Tsing Hua and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung feed the Hsinchu chip corridor directly, including TSMC founder Morris Chang's academic lineage. - **National Taiwan University** (Taipei · 17,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Jerry Yang, Yuan T. Lee, Tsai Ing-wen - **National Tsing Hua University** (Hsinchu · 7,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Chern Shiing-shen, Tsung-Dao Lee - **National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University** (Hsinchu · 14,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Morris Chang - **National Cheng Kung University** (Tainan · 10,000 undergrads) - **National Taiwan University of Science and Technology** (Taipei · 6,000 undergrads) ## Top Unicorns **Unicorn startups in Taiwan** Taiwan's private unicorn bench is thin because its tech giants (TSMC, MediaTek) are public, but a software and crypto layer exists: commerce SaaS at 91APP, productivity tools at Kdan Mobile, and fintech at XREX. - **91APP** — $1B · Omnichannel SaaS commerce platform for retailers - **Kdan Mobile** — $1B · Cloud productivity & document software (PDF, e-signature) - **XREX** — $1B · Blockchain fintech & crypto exchange for cross-border payments ## FAQ **Tech jobs in Taiwan: common questions** ### How many tech jobs are open in Taiwan right now? Feeny is tracking about 567 open tech roles in Taiwan, from roughly 81 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. ### Which cities in Taiwan have the most tech jobs? 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. ### What companies are hiring for tech roles in Taiwan? 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 81 companies, so the live openings are worth checking directly. ### What kinds of tech roles are common in Taiwan? 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. ### What is it like to work in tech in Taiwan? 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. ### Can international candidates get a work visa to work in tech in Taiwan? 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. --- _Source: https://feeny.ai/location/taiwan_