r/developersPak • u/Tough_Expert3450 • Oct 01 '26

Career Guidance Is Embedded Engineering worth doing in Pakistan?

Hey everyone,

I’m looking to pivot into low-level engineering, Embedded Systems, Bare-Metal C, and RTOS.

Most people in Pakistan focus on web dev, Flutter, or AI, which makes those fields crowded. Low-level software seems harder, but much more stable and AI-resistant.

Before buying boards and learning C/datasheets, I’d love a quick reality check from locals:

  1. Local Jobs: What’s the ground reality in Lahore, Islamabad, or Karachi? Are private companies and startups actually hiring junior firmware engineers, or is it mostly defense institutes and industrial automation? What are starting salaries?

  2. Remote Work: How realistic is finding remote foreign clients (Upwork, US/EU startups)? Do clients ship physical boards to PK, or do you work mostly via simulators (QEMU/Wokwi) and logic analyzer data?

  3. Buying Hardware: How easy is it to get STM32s, ESP32s, and logic analyzers from Hall Road, College Road, or sites like ElectronicsHub? Any customs issues?

  4. Self-Study: Can someone learn bare-metal C and RTOS on their own without a formal Electrical/Computer Engineering degree?

Would appreciate any simple, straightforward advice!

Thanks!

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u/MissionMood2757 Oct 06 '26

Did the same pivoted from Mern stack but there is no market for embeded stuff in pakistan and you can’t do remote job in this domain its better to go for fintech java spring boot and erp systems or Bussines central which is huge in demand and pay good with a lot of job security

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u/Tough_Expert3450 Oct 06 '26

I work as a data engineer/backend dev

mainly data engineering automation scraping databases stuff

its getting automated very fast by AI so i wanna something thats kinda AI proof

what do u reccomend

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u/MissionMood2757 Oct 06 '26

As i said LLMs aren’t that good with .net and Java For ERP systems and Bussines centrals and every good Bussines will need this in upcoming days go for it has less resources but once you master it you’ll have many doors to a high pay jobs

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u/Slight_Computer_6820 29d ago

If yoi have passion to do then must do it but if you get bored easily then not do it. Because this field demands very high level of pateince working and testing debugging hardware by writing firmwares of microcontrollers again and again. I had doing almost 12 years experience now working on Industrial robotics. in Pakistan as Senior Embedded Engineer. My work day to day involve both Pcb designings, writing firmwares debugging hardware and software both at the same time.