Are You A Hardware, Software or Embedded Engineer?

rscasny over 1 year ago

When you describe yourself professionally, which of the categories below do you use to describe yourself?

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javagoza over 1 year ago in reply to kmikemoo +6

That would be a good conversation thread. I remember once when I was working at an Apple repair shop that a university professor brought me a computer with a floppy drive with two disks inserted at the…
kmikemoo over 1 year ago in reply to phoenixcomm +2

phoenixcomm That's a fantastic statement. I like it! phoenixcomm said: I get things to work that don't or shouldn't.
Jan Cumps over 1 year ago in reply to robogary +2

SCRUM master. I transfer exactly what they asked for into the hardware engineer's mistakes and the software engineer's mistakes

gordonmx over 1 year ago

All the above
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phoenixcomm over 1 year ago in reply to robogary

robogary Nope, the Application Engineer, I just a another problem to fix! ~~ Cris
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phoenixcomm over 1 year ago in reply to kmikemoo

kmikemoo That's one of my tag lines! so, if you use it, give me some cred please.~~ Cris
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dougw over 1 year ago

Theoretically I am a systems engineer, but have worn many hats throughout my career. Currently I have 2 hats, one is "managing" a development team, coaching, teaching, persuading them how to make clients and the manufacturing team happy. And of course taking the blame when things aren't perfect. The other hat is R&D - coming up with "the next big thing". element14 is a nice change from all of that.
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robogary over 1 year ago in reply to phoenixcomm
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kmikemoo over 1 year ago in reply to phoenixcomm

phoenixcomm Absolutely! Truthfully, I was going to tell you that I was going to steal that line but it's so good... I don't feel qualified.

Sometimes you just have to honor the Masters. Cred to you, Cris.
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michaelkellett over 1 year ago

All three.

But of course only a small subset of each + some other stuff.

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Fred27 over 1 year ago

I picked "software" as that's my job. However, like most people I do a bit of everything. I've done everything on the scale of high level architecture down to embedded and the hardware it runs on.

One thing I particularly like about my current job is the overlap between what is officially my job and the things around it. It might not be in my job description, but I've worked with custom hardware, VR headsets, interfaced with industrial robots, drifted into interfacing with and developing for game engines - and then even modifying the source code of that game engine. I find it's the gaps between areas of expertise where the really interesting stuff happens.
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flyingbean over 1 year ago in reply to Fred27

My job title is STAFF, which means I should be very flexible to fit into all unpredictable jobs from my day-to-day work. After many years practice in the electrical engineering path, I am pretty enjoy the role as a STAFF engineer. So I picked embedded design engineer. I do more hardware projects than software projects.
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javagoza over 1 year ago

I'm a software guy, primarily a JAVA back-end developer. However, I'm frequently called upon to assist with Android (JAVA/Kotlin) or embedded Linux (C/C++) for payment terminals when our terminal development teams hit a roadblock, usually related to communication protocols, interfacing with card readers, NFC cards, printers, barcode readers, and security concerns. With 30 years in the industry, I'm the go-to person for problem-solving.
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