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> company like SpaceX, Tesla, Intel, AMD I think you are overestimating the requirement to touch the hardware by few order of magnitude for a software engineer
by YetAnotherNick 5y ago
> company like SpaceX, Tesla, Intel, AMD
I think you are overestimating the requirement to touch the hardware by few order of magnitude for a software engineer there. Just yesterday I was reading a linkedin post from some senior electrical engineer in Apple M1 division and how they achieved everything remotely. For a fabless company, I don't think most of the engineers would need to touch the chip. Similarly for Tesla and SpaceX, they had great two years when almost all software engineers were working remotely.
- sillysaurusx 5y agoYep, I read lots of Verilog nowadays. I think the implication is that you need to be on site to mess with experimental hardware. But that's not true. It's all colocated and cloud-based nowadays, even for companies that are otherwise paranoid.
- sgtnoodle 5y agoI worked on flight software for cargo dragon, and one time I got an email asking for my help inside one of the capsules. I had to ask where the capsule was, and everybody lol'ed. It was a fun day; I got to wear a bunny suit and a headset and climb around inside a space ship.