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What this article misses is that all that hardware is pretty much standardized. You need very small teams to design and test it. Manufacturing is mostly automat
by giantg2 6mo ago
What this article misses is that all that hardware is pretty much standardized. You need very small teams to design and test it. Manufacturing is mostly automated (or outsourced). This is still a niche job market compared to software, even if software is shedding and RF is adding.
As a Ham, RF engineering seems interesting, but there's really not much for job prospects. Glassdoor shows 125k Software Engineer jobs and 7k RF Engineer jobs in the US.
- physPop 6mo agoThat's only true if you're making something that's already been done.
- giantg2 6mo agoWith the limited spectrum and regulations, there's not much room for stuff that hasn't been done. Having only 7k open jobs across the entire country seems to support that.
- varjag 6mo agoSE jobs is a fairly huge umbrella. RF engineer is a specialization within EE, same way firmware devs are a fraction of SE.