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Old 10-20-2013, 12:47 AM
 
Location: Florida
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Hello.

For longer term I am considering moving away from the Bay Area.
I am a computer hardware design engineer (very complex motherboards and similar stuff). I can find several suitable jobs here in the Bay Area, but I could not find any decent home that I could afford within short (max 30min) commute from work. A very skilful design engineer can only be at the bottom of the local society here (due to housing speculation), which is I think unfair. At most places a design engineer is at least middle class. To move somewhere, I need a local job market where I can continue my existing career in hardware design. I don't want take a big 30 years mortgage and live house poor my whole life, with my background I shouldn't have to.

So the questions is, are there any computer/IT companies in the LA area that do computer hardware design on site (not overseas, neither in another city/state)?
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Old 10-20-2013, 09:47 AM
 
Location: East Bay, San Francisco Bay Area
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There are few, but most are in Silicon Valley, Austin Texas because of the large concentration of the available talent pool in those areas.

The LA housing is market is not cheap by any means either and if you are moving from Sunnyvale to LA, your salary will likely be lower, if you find something.
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Old 10-20-2013, 10:31 AM
 
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Old 10-20-2013, 11:58 AM
 
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I think EMC is in Irvine.

I thought San Diego was a bigger hub for hardware since Qualcomm is down there.

Agree with the op. an Engineer salary of 100-150k is still "struggling" if one wants to buy a house in Nor/Sol Cal.
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