Computer Circuit Design Engineer

Career Area: Engineering

Occupation Group: Electrical, Electronic, and Related Engineering

Salary

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A typical Computer Circuit Design Engineer earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $94,702

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $100,458

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Designs, develops, and tests analog and digital circuits within complex electrical systems in areas such as aeronautics, power industry, vehicle design, etc.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Computer Circuit Design Engineer is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Troubleshooting: Troubleshooting or dpanneuring is a form of problem solving, often applied to repair failed products or processes on a machine or a system.
• Teamwork / Collaboration: Experience working in collaborative efforts with a team to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way.
• Research: Experience performing creative and systematic work to understand a product, market, or customer, either before building a new solution, or to troubleshoot an existing issue
• Problem Solving: Problem solving consists of using generic or ad hoc methods, in an orderly manner, for finding solutions to problems.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Electrical Engineering: Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism.
• Circuit Design: The process of circuit design can cover systems ranging from complex electronic systems all the way down to the individual transistors within an integrated circuit.
• Simulation: Simulation is the imitation of the operation of a real-world process or system over time.
• Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA): Working experience of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA). A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is an integrated circuit designed to be configured by a customer or a designer after manufacturing .
• VHSIC hardware description language (VHDL): VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) is a hardware description language used in electronic design automation to describe digital and mixed-signal systems such as field-programmable gate arrays and integrated circuits.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Computer Circuit Design Engineer that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Circuit Analysis: Working experience of Circuit Analysis, which is the reverse engineering of a given circuit, figuring out the currents, voltages, and powers associated with each component.
• LabVIEW: Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench (LabVIEW) is a system-design platform and development environment for a visual programming language from National Instruments.
• Embedded Software: Working experience of Embedded Software, which is computer software, written to control machines or devices that are not typically thought of as computers. It is typically specialized for the particular hardware that it runs on and has time and memory constraints.
• Electronic Design: Experience of the analysis and synthesis of electronic circuits.
• Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) Design / Testing: Working experience of Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) Design / Testing. A PCB mechanically supports and electrically connects electronic components or electrical components using conductive tracks, pads and other features etched from one or more sheet layers of copper laminated onto and/or between sheet layers of a non-conductive substrate. Components are generally soldered onto the PCB to both electrically connect and mechanically fasten them to it.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Electrical Engineer
• Senior Electrical Engineer
• Fpga Design Engineer
• Senior Electrical Engineer III
• Electrical Engineer II

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• Hardware Design Engineer
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