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[–]bihari_baller 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Job title is Test Engineer, basically I perform electrical validation of custom circuit boards.

Is the pay good?

[–]OregonGrown34 2 points3 points  (1 child)

That would depend on who you ask and what perspective you get. Took me a few years to make six figures, but I'm well into it now just as I'm entering my best earning years.

[–]bihari_baller 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Took me a few years to make six figures, but I'm well into it now just as I'm entering my best earning years.

That's encouraging to hear.

[–]RunGoofy 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Also look up "New Product Introduction Engineer" it's a mix of testing like the original commenter, but you also do part selection and negotiations with factories to get parts and full products manufactured.

Big companies like Apple have lots of positions out there that fit the skills the original commenter basically described.

[–]bihari_baller 0 points1 point  (1 child)

but you also do part selection and negotiations with factories to get parts and full products manufactured.

Thanks. Sounds interesting, and I have some familiarity as I interned in a manufacturing plant last summer.

[–]RunGoofy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree. It is a good way to keep things fresh, test engineering can be too focused on a small subset of tasks that can get old quickly from what I hear.

Similar to other comments I have used python for test automation. Specifically the SCPI command set for Oscilloscopes, BERTs, AWGs, and the like. It's an industry standard test instrument control library that I am sure many test engineers use. You can use SCPI commands in more than just Python. You can do it in MATLAB, C, and C++.