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Where a smart home engineer can go next

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

Smart home engineers are responsible for the design, integration and acceptance testing of home automation systems (heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), lighting, solar shading, irrigation, security, safety, etc.), which integrate connected devices and smart appliances within residential facilities. They work with key stakeholders to ensure the desired project outcome is achieved including wire design, layout, appearance and component programming.

Also known as domotics engineer, smart home project engineer, smart home software engineer, home automation specifier, home automation platform engineer, smart home designer, home automation integrator.

Professionals 44 skills on file 2 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: smart home installer, 36%

Fig. 2 · Career map 2 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1

70% and above · short step
50 to 70% · real move
Below 50% · substantial retraining

The 2 nearest destinations from smart home 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 smart home engineer already covers. All 2 are listed in the tables below.

Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step. Only 2 moves are listed. Few other occupations share enough of this job's skills for a fair comparison, and jobs that share almost all of them are left out as the same work under another name.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A smart home 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

alarm systems services
domotic systems engineering, manufacturing and construction
types of alarm systems services
assess integrated domotics systems information skills
provide advice to hatcheries communication, collaboration and creativity
design a domotic system in buildings communication, collaboration and creativity
design application interfaces communication, collaboration and creativity
building information modelling engineering, manufacturing and construction
building automation engineering, manufacturing and construction
design electronic systems communication, collaboration and creativity

Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

smart home installer 30% covered · difficulty 75.2

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Smart home 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 smart home 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.