computer hardware engineer
ISCO: 2152. Skills: 132. Essential: 63.
Essential skills
- abide by regulations on banned materials
- adjust engineering designs
- analyse test data
- apply for research funding
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- approve engineering design
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- computer engineering
- computer technology
- conduct literature research
- conduct quality control analysis
- conduct research across disciplines
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- design drawings
- design hardware
- design prototypes
- develop professional network with researchers and scientists
- disseminate results to the scientific community
- draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
- electricity
- electricity principles
- electronics
- engineering principles
- environmental legislation
- environmental threats
- evaluate research activities
- hardware architectures
- hardware components
- hardware materials
- hardware platforms
- hardware testing methods
- increase the impact of science on policy and society
- integrate gender dimension in research
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
- manage intellectual property rights
- manage open publications
- manage personal professional development
- manage research data
- mathematics
- mentor individuals
- model hardware
- network standards
- operate open source software
- operate scientific measuring equipment
- perform data analysis
- perform project management
- perform scientific research
- prepare production prototypes
- printed circuit boards
- promote open innovation in research
- promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities
- promote the transfer of knowledge
- publish academic research
- read engineering drawings
- record test data
- report analysis results
- speak different languages
- synthesise information
- test hardware
- think abstractly
- use technical drawing software
- write scientific publications
Supporting skills
- ABAP
- AJAX
- align software with system architectures
- APL
- apply blended learning
- apply technical communication skills
- ASP.NET
- assemble hardware components
- Assembly (computer programming)
- build business relationships
- C#
- C++
- CAE software
- COBOL
- CoffeeScript
- Common Lisp
- communicate with customers
- computer programming
- coordinate engineering teams
- create technical plans
- define manufacturing quality criteria
- design firmware
- develop product design
- draft bill of materials
- electrical engineering
- Erlang
- firmware
- Groovy
- Haskell
- implement anti-virus software
- install operating system
- install software
- Java (computer programming)
- JavaScript
- Lisp
- maintain safe engineering watches
- MATLAB
- mechatronics
- microelectronics
- Microsoft Visual C++
- ML (computer programming)
- Objective-C
- OpenEdge Advanced Business Language
- Pascal (computer programming)
- perform resource planning
- perform test run
- Perl
- PHP
- process customer orders
- program firmware
- Prolog (computer programming)
- Python (computer programming)
- quality standards
- R
- Ruby (computer programming)
- SAP R3
- SAS language
- Scala
- scientific computing
- Scratch (computer programming)
- Smalltalk (computer programming)
- Swift (computer programming)
- teach in academic or vocational contexts
- train employees
- TypeScript
- use CAD software
- use CAM software
- VBScript
- Visual Basic