Job Profile/Description/Responsibilities
Engineers act like liaisons between world of commercial applications and pure research. Starting from formal education in addition with the modern technology fluency, engineers design, examine, and evaluate the new products with their exceptional and pioneering technical skills. These engineers rely on computers for procedural monitoring and product development. The Electronics design engineer's career options vary incredibly ranging from biotechnology to electronics, along with careers anywhere in between these. An engineer design job would essentially require the individual to be familiar with the transistors, control systems, microprocessor, circuits, signal processing, and telecommunication systems. After you pass the first exam of Professional Degree Certification's namely “Fundamentals of Engineering Exam” you can become an engineering intern/ 'engineer in training'.
Requirements
Academic
In order to find the jobs in design engineering, you need to be of eighteen years at least and have a GED or ‘high school diploma'. Next, you need to obtain an appropriate degree in ‘electronics engineering'/related to engineering specialty. Or else, you could select to earn an associate degree of two years in electronics technology or electronics first, and proceed to finish the bachelor's degree later on.
Skill sets
Finding design and engineering jobs requires the individual to be proficient about transistors, control systems, microprocessor, signal processing, telecommunication systems, and circuits. Education of an engineer is never-ending. After being hired, they need to keep updating themselves with the latest technological developments to stay valuable in the consideration of the employees.
Strong writing, analytical and communication skills will prove to be very valuable. Effective and innovative mindset and team work are essential to succeed in this career and to explore more in the electronics field.
Training
An electronics design engineer job requires the individual to receive a 'Professional Engineer Certification'. Proceed to take up the 1st examination named 'Fundamentals of Engineering Exam', after passing this; you will become 'an engineer in training'.
Prior experience
You need to complete the requirements of the certification after which you must acquire working experience in the specialized area and proceed to write the 2nd exam named 'Principals and Practice of Engineering'. Employers prefer hiring individuals who have practical experience in Electronics field. Most of the employers look for candidates who have two years prior experience in designing electronic products and equipments.
Employment Outlook
Career prospects (globally)
As mentioned before, the Electronics Design Engineer has a wider career prospect, since design engineers are required in each and every field related to electronic works. Thereby, job seekers can look forward to jobs related to control systems, microprocessor, signal processing, and telecommunication field. Job openings are plentiful with the average growth being projected for Electronics Engineering specialties.
Salaries
Each of these fields mentioned above come with their own respective packages and remuneration. Earnings vary based on the education level and specialty. Average salary of an Electronics Design Engineer is $70,000-$95,000.
Electronics design engineers are accountable for wider collection of technologies starting from the portable music-players to GPS (Global Positioning System) which is one of the latest fields that can continuously keep on generating new opportunities. Thereby, career as an Electronics design engineer is good but the tasks involved are really crucial. Nowadays, there is abundance of Electronics Design Engineer jobs and the trend seems to be catchy for most of the job seekers. This job requires certain level of hard work and dedication, since the design, development, examining, and supervision part, all needs to be done by the designer of the electronic equipment department. The advantage that an Electronics Engineer enjoys is that he can take up any career, it is not necessary that he must work only in the electronics field; he can proceed to work in software field too.
