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AI Chip Skill Scarcity Board

The scarcest chip-design skills right now, ranked by how few companies are actively hiring for them. Fewer hiring companies = scarcer skill — that ordering is the sort key, derived directly from the live talent-signal corpus, not a subjective rating.

Source: talent_signals job titles scanned against the 26-term chip-design lexicon (read-time, deterministic)

Skill	Hiring cos.	21d	90d	Trend
DFT Hiring companies astera-labs Source postings posting 1 →posting 2 →posting 3 →	1	2	2	Rising
STA Hiring companies broadcom Source postings posting 1 →	1	0	1	Cold
PCIe Hiring companies astera-labs Source postings posting 1 →	1	1	1	Rising
post-silicon Hiring companies astera-labs Source postings posting 1 →	1	1	1	Rising
design verification Hiring companies amd astera-labs cerebras-systems groq sambanova-systems tenstorrent Source postings posting 1 →posting 2 →posting 3 →posting 4 →posting 5 →	6	2	3	Rising
physical design Hiring companies amd astera-labs cerebras-systems groq rebellions-ai sambanova-systems tenstorrent Source postings posting 1 →posting 2 →posting 3 →posting 4 →posting 5 →	7	2	6	Rising

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