Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an optical engineer can go next

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

Optical engineers design and develop different industrial applications with optics. They have knowledge of light, light transmission principles, and optics in order to design engineering specs of equipment such as microscopes, lenses, telescopes, and other optical devices.

Also known as optics engineer, optical technology engineer, optical engineering specialist, optical engineering expert, optical technology engineering expert, optical technology engineering specialist, optical engineering adviser, optical engineering consultant, optic engineer, optical technology engineering adviser, optical technology engineering consultant.

Professionals 118 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: microsystem engineer, 71%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
microsystem engineer 71% covered sensor engineer 71% covered astronomer 69% covered religion scientific researcher 69% covered microelectronics engineer 67% covered optical engineer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from optical 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 optical 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 optical 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
  • design optical prototypes communication, collaboration and creativity
  • develop optical test procedures management skills
  • model optical systems communication, collaboration and creativity
  • optical components health and welfare
  • optical equipment standards services
  • optical manufacturing process engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • refractive power natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • test optical components information skills
  • optical glass characteristics engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • types of optical instruments natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
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Optical 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 optical 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.