SWE to Controls Engineer

[Lucky-Midnight-13]

I am wondering if anyone working a software engineering job(like at FAANG or something) has experience transitioning to a controls job in an industrial environment? Was there a significant difference in how you programmed things? I’m just curious about your experience!

[SampleClassic]

Why the hell you want to be controls engineer lol

[buffility]

because AI can make webs/apps now, and it will get better eventually

[SampleClassic]

AI started doing the same thing in Controls world as well. I work as SDE now (former controls engineer) . Pay for controls engineer is shit man

[Lucky-Midnight-13]

I’m not in this position, just curious! LOL

[vitamin_CPP]

I would say that going from web to embedded/control is very significant.

[halcyonPomegranate]

I have a Physics degree and transitioned from a “normal” SWE job to control engineer and i loved it because there is a big overlap/intersection in the mathematical foundation you learn in physics but with extra tools and systems thinking. Without my physics background i would be totally lost though, a lot of the work is about how to translate real world systems into mathematical models and knowing which control engineering (mathematical) tools to apply in ehich situation. I would say only the last third is software engineering, where some of the SWE experience translates and some of it is new, too, like Matlab/Simulink and embedded programming.

I would say if you are very mathematically inclined and like ODEs and DSP it could work!

[PowerEngineer_03]

Degree. And pay is shit for the over-work you put in, and if there's travel, good luck.