Which of the world's biggest tech companies are hiring engineers in Spain?

The top 100 combines the companiesmarketcap.com technology ranking with private companies valued high enough to make the list: Anthropic, OpenAI, ByteDance, Stripe, Ant Group, Databricks, Revolut and Anduril. Ten more employers with a Spanish presence were checked as well.

• 28/38chip and hardware companies in the top 100 have no Spanish vacancies at all: TSMC, Broadcom, Samsung, Micron, AMD, ASML, Intel, Arm, SMIC, UMC, Cadence and others don't list Spain as a hiring location.
• 10chip and hardware companies do hire here, mostly through design centres: Analog Devices and Infineon in Valencia, Monolithic Power Systems in Barcelona, NXP (Barcelona/Madrid), HPE and Marvell, plus remote roles at NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Synopsys and Applied Materials.
• 18/23software, cloud and security companies in the top 100 have a live technical role in Spain, including ServiceNow, Datadog, Databricks, Fortinet, Nebius and Cisco (five adverts each) and single roles at ADP and Equinix.
• 3/16consumer internet platforms hire engineers in Spain: Google, Amazon and Apple. Airbnb, Spotify, Booking.com, DoorDash, Uber, Netflix, Meta and TikTok have no Spanish technical roles, or only non-technical ones. TikTok has 39 Madrid roles, all in policy and operations.
• 1/8of the Asian electronics makers has a Spanish technical opening: Panasonic, at its European air-conditioning headquarters in Barcelona. Foxconn, Keyence, Murata, Delta and Sony have none, and Xiaomi's job search couldn't be checked. Keysight and TE Connectivity, in the same sector, do hire here.

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Value = market capitalisation on 17 Sep 2026, or latest private valuation (Crunchbase, June 2026) where marked private. Spain results = the employer's own Spain-filtered count across all job types (n/d = the site doesn't show one). Tech adverts kept is capped at five per employer, so large recruiters such as Amazon, Revolut and Schneider Electric are under-represented. The amber status also covers Xiaomi, whose job search couldn't be loaded. Uber's Madrid filter returns no jobs, but its country-wide total couldn't be pulled. Employer names link to the official search we used.

• 41Madrid-only adverts (26%), from 22 employers. ServiceNow, Vodafone, Databricks, Fortinet, Microsoft and AWS lead, alongside the AI labs (Anthropic, OpenAI, Palantir), Google's forward-deployed AI engineer, Tesla, Nokia and Equinix.
• 30Barcelona-only adverts, more hardware- and product-heavy: Monolithic Power Systems' chip design centre, Keysight's AI and FPGA teams, Apple's Siri engineers, King, Stripe, HP and N26.
• 43multi-city adverts, where Madrid or Barcelona is one option among other European cities. Cisco's Isovalent roles list up to 20 cities; Datadog, Palo Alto Networks and Workday do the same.
• 21outside the two big cities. Valencia is a chip-design cluster (Analog Devices ×4, Infineon ×3). Málaga hosts Google's security engineering centre plus Vodafone and Keysight. The rest are Tesla's vehicle-engineering test site at Santa Oliva (Tarragona), Schneider Electric's field engineers and Zaragoza's data centres.

Grouping all 159 adverts by what the job actually is shows each location doing something different. This chart always shows all 159 adverts.

• 46%of Madrid adverts are solutions or pre-sales engineering (19 of 41): ServiceNow, Databricks, Adobe, IBM, Google's forward-deployed engineer and the AI labs. Madrid is where the big vendors sell and deploy, not where they build products.
• 9 · 9 · 9Barcelona splits evenly between software, AI and data, and hardware, with just 3 solutions roles. Apple's Siri language engineers, Keysight's AI team, King's game engineers, Monolithic Power's chip designers and N26's backend teams all build here.
• 71%of adverts outside the two big cities are hardware or physical engineering (15 of 21): chip design in Valencia, Tesla's vehicle engineering in Santa Oliva, data centres in Zaragoza and Schneider's field engineers.
• 0Barcelona-only security roles. The 17 security adverts are in Madrid (6), multi-city European postings (8), remote (2) and Málaga (1): CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Cisco, Google and Vodafone.
• 15/43multi-city adverts are staff or principal level, the highest share of any location type. A role open in several European cities (median three, maximum thirteen) is usually a senior one, and candidates compete across the continent.
• 5 vs 8years is the median minimum for "senior" versus "staff/principal". Titles aren't consistent: some senior roles ask for 2–3 years, and one staff role asks for 3.

Each advert was coded from its own text or its job system's work-type field. Where an advert says nothing, the second view adds the employer's published office policy. That shows the likely arrangement, but it isn't a commitment made in the advert.

• 37/159give no work model anywhere, neither in the text nor in the job system: all Amazon, Apple, Salesforce, Tesla and Analog Devices adverts, plus Adobe, NXP, Marvell and a few others. 14 more are office-based without a day count: King and Keysight mark their roles as not remote, and Google flags only its remote roles.
• 17remain unknown after adding company policy. Amazon (five days a week) and Tesla (40 hours a week in the office) move to on-site. Apple (three set days), Google (at least three days) and Salesforce (three days; four to five for customer-facing teams) move to hybrid.
• 39are fully remote, mostly open across several European countries: NVIDIA, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks and Nebius (5 each), Cisco (4), ServiceNow and Revolut (3 each). Seven are remote within Spain only.
• 50are hybrid, and 22 give an office-day count. Three days: Microsoft, SAP, OpenAI, Revolut. About half the time: Stripe, Ericsson, Workday. At least two days: N26, Vodafone, HPE, ServiceNow.
• 19are on-site as stated: all five HP roles in Sant Cugat, Microsoft's data-centre roles, Schneider Electric's field engineers, Infineon's Valencia chip designers, Monolithic Power's applications engineers, Equinix, Arista and Palantir. 29 once Amazon and Tesla policy is applied.

Only employers that published a range for Spain are shown. Where an advert published pay only for another country (Revolut for Poland, CrowdStrike for Italy, HP and Applied Materials for the US), it counts as undisclosed. Identical ranges from the same employer are shown once.

• −22%Workday pays Spain less than the Netherlands for the same Success Plans consultant role (€54.9K–82.3K vs €70.6K–106K, midpoint to midpoint), and about 17% less than France.
• −11%Microsoft's Spain band for a level-4 Digital Solution Engineer (€53K–92K) is about 11% below Ireland's.
• €120Kis the highest published base pay: Google's staff engineers in Málaga and its forward-deployed AI engineer in Madrid (€120K–123K, plus a 20% bonus target and equity). Google's bands are unusually narrow, only €1.5K–3K wide.
• €45Kis where mid-level engineering starts in the published data: Marvell pays €44.9K–59.8K for a Madrid embedded engineer with 3–5 years' experience, and Stripe pays new graduates in Barcelona €46.2K–69.4K.
• 6/47hiring employers publish a Spanish range: Google, Microsoft, Workday, Cloudflare, Stripe and Marvell. In ranks 51–100, Cloudflare is the only one.

• 41architecture and solutions roles are the largest family (43 counting the managers who lead those teams), and 64 of 159 adverts require client-facing or consulting experience. ServiceNow, Databricks, NVIDIA, Cloudflare and Adobe account for most of them; forward-deployed engineers at Google, OpenAI, Palantir and Salesforce are the newest version of the role.
• 37hardware, chip and other engineering roles: IC and PCB design, FPGA, vehicle dynamics, power-system commissioning, data centres and game engines. Analog Devices, Schneider Electric, Tesla and Monolithic Power Systems account for 18 of them.
• 105/159are senior, staff/principal or manager level. Only 13 are junior or graduate roles, at Stripe, Palantir, Revolut, HP, N26, Ericsson, Analog Devices, AWS, SAP, Salesforce and Monolithic Power Systems.
• 5 yrsis the median minimum among the 82 adverts that state one (range 1–12 years). Five years is by far the most common ask.

• 157/159adverts are written in English. The two in Spanish are Vodafone's cybersecurity pre-sales role and Equinix's Madrid data-centre technician. English is explicitly required in 48.
• 13explicitly require Spanish, almost all for client-facing roles: the AI labs' Madrid roles (Anthropic, OpenAI, Palantir), Salesforce's forward-deployed engineers, Adobe, Databricks, IBM, Fortinet, Nokia and TE Connectivity. 9 of them are in Madrid.
• 52adverts mention AI/ML skills (41 as a requirement). The top 50 mention AI far more often (31 of 74 adverts) than ranks 51–100 (15 of 60). "Agentic AI" appears in 19.
• Python · Javaare the most-requested languages (23 and 12 adverts), ahead of Go (8), TypeScript (6) and C++ (5).

• ·You are competing with a specific set of employers. For Barcelona product and AI roles it's Apple, King, N26 and Keysight; for Madrid solutions roles, ServiceNow, Databricks, Datadog and the AI labs; for hardware, Analog Devices, Infineon, Monolithic Power and Tesla. Benchmark your offer against them, not against the market average.
• ·Publishing pay makes you stand out. Only 6 of the 47 hiring employers publish a Spanish range. The EU pay-transparency directive will require a range before the interview; Spain's draft decree (August 2026) leaves that out for now, so publishing today is a choice that sets you apart.
• ·Put the work model in the advert text. 37 adverts give no work model anywhere, and only 37 of 159 say how many office days.
• ·Describe the interview process. Only 2 of 159 adverts mention it at all.
• ·Show a posting date, and refresh or close old adverts. 24 adverts hide the date, and 11 have been live for more than three months, one for over 300 days. A stale post signals a stalled hire.
• ·Say what "senior" means. Senior adverts ask for anything from 2 to 10 years, and 30 of 159 adverts give no seniority signal at all.
• ·Specific detail is what differentiates an advert. Communication (64), collaboration (53) and stakeholder management (53) are the most-requested attributes, and Python, Kubernetes, LLMs, Java and Go the most-requested skills. Everyone asks for the same profile.
• ·Multi-city postings hide you. 43 adverts list Spain among other European cities, so a candidate filtering by Madrid or Barcelona may never see them. Amadeus, Ocado Technology and Huawei have large Spanish teams but no current technical adverts on their official sites.

A deliberately constructed panel, not a ranking or a representative sample of the Spanish labour market. Adverts come only from official careers sites and their applicant-tracking systems; aggregators weren't used. At most five eligible technical adverts are kept per employer (the most recent, or the first in official order where dates are hidden). "Not stated" means the advert didn't say, not that the answer is no. Work models come from the advert text or the job system's own work-type field; the "plus company policy" view adds published employer-wide office rules (Amazon, Tesla, Apple, Google, Salesforce), which may differ for individual teams or countries.

Market capitalisations and private valuations are measured on different dates, so ranks near the top-50 and top-100 cut-offs are indicative. Xiaomi could not be verified, and Uber only for Madrid. Every employer was re-checked on the same day against its own Spain filter or job feed, and records were replaced where the first pass had missed newer or better-matching adverts: the re-check added Google and reversed Cisco from "no technical roles" to 14 Spain-linked postings. King is shown separately from Microsoft because it has its own careers site. Everything was observed on 17 September 2026, and adverts may since have closed.