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Ask HN: Anyone Hiring Real Engineers?
I was wondering if there are any companies that were hiring non software related engineers?
Are there any startups that are looking for Mechanical, Electrical or even Civil and Industrial Engineers? Or is HN not quite the platform for that?
Please forgive the implications of the title - I did not mean to imply that a developer or back end engineer is any less of an engineer.
- ivanbernat 14y agoIf you dress like an engineer, you are an engineer :)
- mayanksinghal 14y agoBut you are a real engineer only if you are an Mechanical, Chemical, Civil or Industrial, otherwise you are probably digital / unreal ?
- kdaganio 14y agoYou beat me to it! Reading the title that's what I initially thought, that a 'real' engineer is limited to said fields above?
- sliverstorm 14y agoIs there a proper, PC term for it? We all know the dividing line which is meant- roughly approximated by a PE license- but is there a term for it? "Licensed Engineer"?
- protomyth 14y agoIn some states, using the word "engineer" for a non-licensed position or person is against the law. In other words, in some states the term is simply "engineer".
- sliverstorm 14y agoIn that context, it's funny how upset folks in threads like these get over phrases like "real engineer".
- mjwalshe 14y agoAsk them to use a solding iron its the only way to separate the women and men from the boys and girls (and COBOL programmers)
- calciphus 14y agoFantasy Engineer. New Business Cards
- nhebb 14y agoAs an Industrial Engineering major, the old joke was that "IE" stands for "Imaginary Engineering".
- mjwalshe 14y agoOh so wellies (steel toe caped of course) and jeans and a white labcoat then. Accesorised with a RPN (The one true way ) HP Calculator and a slide rule in the top pocket :-)
- MarcusFallenGod 14y agoThere definitely are. You just have to look at the right companies.
- calciphus 14y agoI assumed when OP said "real engineer" they meant "drives a train". They must come from "Real America". There are tons of mechanical, electrical, and other non-software engineering positions open in the US and abroad. Are you good at what you do? Better than most? Able to not come off as a tool in interviews and writing (you failed this one here, btw)? And yes, HN is probably the wrong place to look for a civil engineering job. You should probably, I dunno, check civic job boards? Asce.org? Every engineering profession has at least one significant "society" or non-profit group. Join it, they have a job board.
- steeleduncan 14y agoI'm sure you've read the regular postings on HN bemoaning how the eternal september is setting in, and how it is descending to the level of all other internet forums. This answer is a perfect example. If you don't have anything helpful to add (you didn't - unlike olalonde, cpg, ...) then don't post. Rescuing HN is as simple as that.
- olalonde 14y agoSeconded. All the more so since OP explicitly mentioned he "did not mean to imply that a developer or back end engineer is any less of an engineer."
- jboggan 14y agoPetroleum is hiring.
- MaxwellM 14y agoAre there startups/entrepreneurs in this industry? Seems like a tough industry to be an underdog.
- prpatel 14y agoWith the deluge of hardware Kickstarter projects, I'd be surprised if some of them don't have positions for EE's. * btw - i love that hardware hacking is getting popular again
- Undertow10 14y agoDouble Robotics is hiring! We are looking for both an electrical engineer and an embedded systems programmer, each with experience in motor control algorithms and robotics. jobs@doublerobotics.com
- olalonde 14y agoCheckout http://www.haxlr8r.com/companies/ http://www.haxlr8r.com/companies/, I bet some of them are hiring. (HAXLR8R is a venture fund which focuses on hardware startups.)
- cpg 14y agoAmahi is hiring a mech engineer with some design chops to lead an exciting project related to our software! jobs at amahi dot org!
- jamesjguthrie 14y agoI'm half way through my Motorsport Design Engineering bachelor's degree course and while doing that I'm writing software for clients and for my own projects. I'm hoping that I can use both my education and software skills after graduation. Preferably in my own business.