34,000 job openings available in Taiwan’s semiconductor industry
34,000 job openings available in Taiwan’s semiconductor industry
2025-07-28
With falling birth rates amid an ageing population, Taiwan now has 34,000 job vacancies in the semiconductor industry, with openings available even to non-engineering talent. To address the issue, ITRI and a job bank teamed up to compile a 2025 report for talent trends in the industry. On Monday, key findings and conclusions in the reported were presented to the public. Let’s find out more.
Jeff Lin
ITRI Vice President
The only region in Taiwan where the birthrate is increasing is basically only the Hsinchu area.
ITRI Vice President Jeff Lin does not sugar-coat the reason Taiwan is experiencing a labor shortage: falling birth rate and population ageing. To address the issue, ITRI has teamed up with a job bank to publish a 2025 report on semiconductor industry talent trends. It concluded that in addition to filling job vacancies, AI will also play an important role in keeping operations running in Taiwan, an AI hub.
Stephen Su
ITRI Senior Vice President
Almost 70% of jobs now require AI-human collaboration. For example, if you used to do integrated circuit design, now AI can help you with 70% of the work. As for your decision-making and how you can find international partners for your intellectual property, that’s the remaining 30%.
The report found that the largest number of vacancies is related to production, quality control and industrial hygiene, with 9,968 job openings in May this year. Following up was research and development of advanced manufacturing processes and 3D chips, with 9,316 vacancies. The third highest number was that of technical operations. All in all, there were as many as 34,000 positions waiting to be filled.
Chung Wen-hsiung
Jobseekers’ website vice president
Taiwan’s labor force participation rate in the middle-to-late and late career stages still ha plenty of space for growth compared to other countries.
Why though, are there not enough technicians? The key reason could be that these roles are shift work that requires a high level of operation. It also could be that the jobs do not require a related educational background, which is the case with as many as 58% of current talents. On the other hand, the research and development of manufacturing processes can only be done by those educated in electrical engineering or mechanical engineering. However, the big question remains: is Taiwan ready as the industry expands to other countries?
Jeff Lin
ITRI Vice President
As for institutional and cultural challenges, because it’s a whole new environment, so there’s not a single country that can be said to be fully prepared. We don’t have a large market or a large population. Any breakthrough relies on reaching beyond our current talent pool and rethinking what it takes to fulfill a role in this industry.
Non-traditional talent with a liberal arts, social science or business background has emerged as the biggest winners amid current industry trends. On average, salaries for operations and project managers have grown by nearly 20%, for an annual median income of NT$1,239,787. That makes for an average monthly income of over NT$100,000. It seems that businesses in the industry may have to offer better compensation and benefits in order to attract top talents.
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半導體缺工5月就缺3.4萬人 工研院:7成將來須AI協助
2025-07-28
少子化加劇 加上人口老化迅速，台灣半導體人才光是今年五月，總缺口就來到3萬4000人，其中先進製程和先進封裝的生產基層人員最缺工。工研院和人力銀行共同攜手，舉行"半導體人才報告發布會"，要讓產官學界精準研擬因應對策，工研院資深副總提出7比3原則，未來七成，得用AI協助。
[[工研院產科國際所所長 林昭憲]]
“全台灣唯一的新生人口出生率在成長的，基本上是在新竹地區。”
開門見山，點出少子化、人口老化，是台灣缺工關鍵，工研院攜手104人力銀行，發布半導體人才報告書數據，身為AI中心的台灣，未來得靠AI支撐人力市場。
[[工研院資深副總暨協理 蘇孟宗]]
“幾乎70%都需要用AI來做協助。比如說你原來是在做IC設計的，那現在AI可以幫你做70%，那你怎麼樣做決策，或者是說你的IP怎麼跟國際去合作，那個就是30%。”
攤開數據一眼就能看見，半導體最缺工單位，第一名是生產、品質管理和環衛單位，今年5月就有9968個工作機會、而先進製程、3D晶片的研發人才，也一樣缺人，缺口衝上9316人。缺工第三大單位，是基層操作技術人員，和其他單位加起來，半導體產業缺工站上3萬4000人。
[[104人力銀行人資長 鍾文雄]]
“以台灣目前中高齡跟高年級的勞參率，相對於其他國家來講，我們還是有很大的成長的空間。”
其中操作技術類，找不到人關鍵原因，就在要輪班、工作當下需高度專注。數據調查中也發現，不用本科系就能應徵，比例達58%，相對生產製造和研發，需要電機工程、機械工程等人才，在半導體各廠，尋求到各國家設廠情況下，台灣準備好了嗎?
[[工研院副總暨產科國際所所長 林昭憲]]
“所謂的制度跟文化的挑戰上面來講，因為這是新的環境，沒有任何一個國家說都已經完全準備好了，我們沒有很大的市場，我們沒有很大人口，一切的突破，都是依照人才的觀念跟突破。
瞄準一類組人才，專案業務主管的薪水就漲近2成，今年的年薪中位數來到127萬9787元，換算成月薪，每個月超過10萬。在AI蓬勃發展下，如何用福利、制度搶才，也成為產官學界一大考驗。
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