Frontend Engineer, Wordpress

Role: Frontend Engineer – WordPress
Employment Type: Full-Time
Work Setting: Onsite/Remote
Work Location: Onsite - US, Chicago / Remote - Anywhere
Work Hours: Office Hours
Find out more here: https://semianalysis.com

About SemiAnalysis

SemiAnalysis is a global team of analysts and engineers, publishing more than 100 articles a year and participating in 40+ conferences. We are recognized as the leading authority on the semiconductor supply chain, with a deep-rooted passion for delving into the intricacies of the world's most advanced industry.

Our newsletter has 200,000+ subscribers, including senior management and C-suite leaders at the world's leading semiconductor and AI companies.

Some of our industry-shaping work:

• Industry Models: Accelerator & HBM, AI Cloud TCO, AI Networking, Datacenter, Energy, Foundry, Memory, Tokenomics, Wafer Fab Equipment, and more. Deep quantitative models covering accelerator shipments, datacenter buildout, GPU total cost of ownership, and the broader semiconductor capex cycle.

• ChipBook, Fab Map, GPU Pricing Index: proprietary tools used by hyperscalers, hedge funds, and government agencies. Together they cover detailed specs across the AI chip landscape, the global semiconductor fab footprint, and live GPU rental pricing across the cloud market.

• InferenceX: our open-source, continuously-updated inference benchmark across the latest accelerators and frameworks. Used by OpenAI, leading AI labs, and major NeoClouds to track real-world inference performance as hardware and software evolve.

• ClusterMAX™: the world's first GPU cloud rating system, covering 90%+ of the market. Enterprises use it to decide where to rent GPU capacity, and clouds themselves use it to benchmark and improve.

We offer four institutional products: Industry Models, Core Research, Data Products, and Consulting & Technical Due Diligence. We serve hyperscalers, neoclouds, many of the world's largest hedge funds, and government agencies.

We're also looking for new talent.

1) Position Overview

We are seeking a clever and motivated Frontend Engineer (WordPress) to own and elevate the technical foundation of the SemiAnalysis website. This is a WordPress-focused role centered on semianalysis.com itself (WordPress on Pressable), the institutional portal, the paywalled research experience, and the marketing pages our readers see every day. Comfort reading and writing some React/JS is important for integration work and the occasional cross-stack collaboration.

This role is ideal for someone equally comfortable writing clean, modern PHP and JavaScript as they are translating polished design files into pixel-perfect, performant interfaces. You will work closely with our Website Designer and our analysts to ship the surfaces where 200,000+ readers and our institutional clients experience SemiAnalysis.

We are hiring across experience levels, from new grad to senior. Compensation will be competitive and commensurate with experience.

As part of the interview process, you may be asked to complete a paid 1-2 week work trial. The trial is designed to give us a real-world look at both your implementation and design skills, and typically involves work like building custom Gutenberg blocks, translating a Figma spec into a production template, integrating an ACF-driven data view, and contributing to a redesign of a real SemiAnalysis surface.

2) Key Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the SemiAnalysis WordPress codebase, including themes, templates, custom Gutenberg blocks, and supporting plugins

• Partner with our Website Designer to refresh the marketing site, the institutional portal, and key landing pages

• Translate Figma designs into clean, semantic, componentized templates with pixel-perfect fidelity

• Model dynamic, research-heavy content using ACF Pro (repeaters, flexible content, options pages, custom post types, taxonomies) and connect it to theme views

• Build clean integration points where our React/Next.js tools and dashboards are embedded into the WordPress site

• Monitor, diagnose, and resolve issues as they come up across the WordPress stack, from theme bugs and broken integrations to performance regressions

• Optimize across Core Web Vitals, including image handling, lazy loading, caching, CDN configuration, asset minification, and CLS prevention, on a site read by a technically demanding audience

• Ensure cross-browser, cross-device responsiveness and accessibility compliance (WCAG 2.1 AA)

• Build and maintain integrations with our analytics, email, CRM, and subscription/payment stack

• Contribute to a maintainable component library, frontend coding standards, and lightweight design system

• Collaborate with our globally distributed team across US, Europe, and APAC time zones

3) Qualifications

• Proven experience as a WordPress Frontend Engineer with a portfolio of custom (not page-builder-only) builds

• Strong proficiency in PHP (8.x), modern JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, and CSS3/SCSS

• Hands-on experience building custom WordPress themes from starter frameworks

• Strong experience with Gutenberg block development, including native React blocks, ACF blocks, dynamic blocks, block patterns, and the WordPress Block API

• Deep familiarity with ACF Pro, custom post types, WordPress query optimization, and the WordPress REST API

• Working knowledge of React (and ideally Next.js and TypeScript). You don't need to be a React expert, but you should be comfortable reading a Next.js codebase

• Proficiency in responsive, mobile-first development and cross-browser testing

• Solid understanding of accessibility best practices (semantic HTML, ARIA, focus management)

• Comfortable with Git-based workflows, pull requests, and CI/CD

• Self-driven and proactive. You take initiative, own your work end-to-end, and operate independently in a fast-paced, globally distributed team

• Strong instinct for diagnosing and resolving issues as they come up, without waiting to be told what to do

• Strong attention to detail and the ability to deliver within timelines

4) Preferred Skills

• Deeper React/Next.js experience and exposure to headless WordPress setups (WPGraphQL)

• Experience with managed WordPress hosting environments (we're on Pressable) and staging/deployment workflows

• Familiarity with performance tooling (Lighthouse, WebPageTest, New Relic) and SEO fundamentals

• Familiarity with design systems and component-based architecture

• Genuine interest in semiconductors, AI infrastructure, or data-driven research products

5) Growth Areas

• Shape the technical foundation of a platform read by the C-suite at every major semi and AI company on earth

• Build for a sophisticated, technical readership where the bar for craft, performance, and accuracy is unusually high

• Collaborate directly with analysts, designers, engineers, and product stakeholders across a globally distributed team

• Develop end-to-end engineering ownership, from architecture to deployment