Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a microelectronics designer can go next

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

Microelectronics designers focus on developing and designing microelectronic systems, from the top packaging level down to the integrated circuit level. Their knowledge incorporates system-level understanding with analogue and digital circuit knowledge, with integrating the technology processes and an overall outlook in microelectronic sensor basics. They work with other engineers, material science specialists and researchers, to enable innovations and continuous development of already existing devices.

Also known as microelectronics hardware engineer, microelectronics circuit system engineer, microelectronics manufacturing design engineer, microelectronics hardware designer, microelectronics circuit design engineer, microelectronics circuit designer, silicon engineer, microelectronics system engineer, microelectronics system designer, integrated circuit hardware engineer, microelectronics technology design engineer, microelectronics circuit engineer.

Professionals 86 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: integrated circuit design engineer, 77%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
integrated circuit design eng… 77% covered electronics drafter 65% covered printed circuit board designer 51% covered power electronics engineer 49% covered microsystem engineer 49% covered microelectronics designer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from microelectronics designer, 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 a microelectronics designer already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A microelectronics designer needs 57 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
  • design circuits using CAD communication, collaboration and creativity
  • model sensor communication, collaboration and creativity
  • artificial neural networks information and communication technologies (icts)
  • electronic components engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • interpret electronic design specifications information skills
  • design integrated circuits communication, collaboration and creativity
  • integrated circuit types engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • customise drafts communication, collaboration and creativity
  • design electronic systems communication, collaboration and creativity
  • design sensors communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a microelectronics designer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Microelectronics designer 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 a microelectronics designer’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.