Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a robotics engineer can go next

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

Robotics engineers design and develop robotic devices and applications in combination with mechanical engineering principles. They use pre-established designs and current developments for improving or inventing systems, machinery and equipment. They combine several knowledge fields such as computing, engineering, and electronics in the development of new engineering applications.

Also known as automation systems engineer, robotics engineering adviser, autonomous systems engineer, robotic technology engineering specialist, robotics engineering expert, robotic engineer, engineer of robotics, control systems engineer, robotics engineering consultant, robotic technology engineer, engineer of robotic systems, robotics engineering specialist.

Professionals 53 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: rolling stock engineer, 64%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
rolling stock engineer 64% covered agricultural engineer 61% covered equipment engineer 58% covered aerospace engineer 55% covered container equipment design en… 52% covered robotics engineer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from robotics 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 a robotics 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

A robotics engineer needs 17 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
  • human-robot collaboration engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • develop computer vision system working with computers
  • design automation components communication, collaboration and creativity
  • automatic control system information and communication technologies (icts)
  • robotic components engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • execute feasibility study information skills
  • robotics engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • assess financial viability information skills
  • approve engineering design communication, collaboration and creativity
  • mechanical engineering engineering, manufacturing and construction
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Robotics 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 a robotics 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.