Employment Percentage
-31.015625
SOC ID
17-2061
SOC Title
Computer Hardware Engineers
ONET ID
17-2061.00
ONET Concat ID
17206100
Median Salary
111690.41
EMSI Interest Area Term
Ed Level High School
0
Ed Level Certificate
0
Ed Level Some College
6.9
Ed Level Associates
0
Ed Level Bachelors
48.279999
Ed Level Masters
37.93
Ed Level Doctors
6.9
Typical Ed Level
a Bachelor's degree
Career Description
Research, design, develop, or test computer or computer-related equipment for commercial, industrial, military, or scientific use. May supervise the manufacturing and installation of computer or computer-related equipment and components.
Core Tasks
- Update knowledge and skills to keep up with rapid advancements in computer technology.
- Design and develop computer hardware and support peripherals, including central processing units (CPUs), support logic, microprocessors, custom integrated circuits, and printers and disk drives.
- Confer with engineering staff and consult specifications to evaluate interface between hardware and software and operational and performance requirements of overall system.
- Build, test, and modify product prototypes, using working models or theoretical models constructed with computer simulation.
- Write detailed functional specifications that document the hardware development process and support hardware introduction.
- Test and verify hardware and support peripherals to ensure that they meet specifications and requirements, by recording and analyzing test data.
- Direct technicians, engineering designers or other technical support personnel as needed.
- Provide technical support to designers, marketing and sales departments, suppliers, engineers and other team members throughout the product development and implementation process.
- Select hardware and material, assuring compliance with specifications and product requirements.
- Store, retrieve, and manipulate data for analysis of system capabilities and requirements.
- Analyze user needs and recommend appropriate hardware.
- Evaluate factors such as reporting formats required, cost constraints, and need for security restrictions to determine hardware configuration.
- Provide training and support to system designers and users.
- Monitor functioning of equipment and make necessary modifications to ensure system operates in conformance with specifications.
- Specify power supply requirements and configuration, drawing on system performance expectations and design specifications.
Start Annual Earnings
72970.63
Top Annual Earnings
195923.67
EMSI Career Title Slug
computer-hardware-engineer