Computer hardware engineer
Code 2152.1.1
Computer hardware engineers design and develop computer hardware systems and components, such as circuit boards, modems, and printers. They draught blueprints and assembly drawings, develop and test the prototypes, and supervise the production process.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- environmental threats
- hardware architectures
- hardware components
- electricity
- electronics
- computer engineering
- environmental legislation
- hardware materials
- hardware testing methods
- printed circuit boards
- design drawings
- hardware platforms
- engineering principles
- electricity principles
- computer technology
Skills and competences
- speak different languages
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- analyse test data
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- approve engineering design
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- develop professional network with researchers and scientists
- abide by regulations on banned materials
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- operate open source software
- disseminate results to the scientific community
- design hardware
- design prototypes
- write scientific publications
- evaluate research activities
- manage research data
- manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
- manage open publications
- integrate gender dimension in research
- read engineering drawings
- perform scientific research
- conduct research across disciplines
- model hardware
- adjust engineering designs
- think abstractly
- mentor individuals
- prepare production prototypes
- test hardware
- promote open innovation in research
- promote the transfer of knowledge
- publish academic research
- conduct quality control analysis
- conduct literature research
- perform data analysis
- draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
- record test data
- apply for research funding
- use technical drawing software
Transversal competences
- increase the impact of science on policy and society
- manage intellectual property rights
- manage personal professional development
- perform project management
- report analysis results
- operate scientific measuring equipment
- mathematics
- think analytically
- promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities
- synthesise information
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences