Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an application engineer can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an application engineer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Application engineers deal with the technical requirements, management, and design for the development of various engineering applications, such as systems, new product designs, or the improvements of processes. They are responsible for the implementation of a design or process improvement, they offer technical support for products, answer questions about the technical functionality and assist the sales team.

Also known as application technology engineering specialist, application engineering consultant, application technology engineer, electric vehicles application engineer, applied research engineer, application engineering specialist, application technology engineering adviser, BESS application engineer, application engineering adviser, application technology engineering expert, applied engineer, application technology engineering consultant.

Professionals 89 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: equipment engineer, 61%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
equipment engineer 61% covered logistics engineer 60% covered process engineer 57% covered contract engineer 55% covered precision engineer 53% covered application engineer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from application engineer, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role an application engineer already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

An application engineer needs 33 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • advanced materials natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • algorithms information and communication technologies (icts)
  • conduct ICT code review working with computers
  • conduct research on trends in design information skills
  • task algorithmisation information and communication technologies (icts)
  • identify customer requirements information skills
  • manage product testing management skills
  • use software design patterns communication, collaboration and creativity
  • computer science information and communication technologies (icts)
  • integrated development environment software information and communication technologies (icts)
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an application engineer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Application engineer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an application engineer’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.