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by rifung 3502 days ago
I believe SETI is the new name for what was formerly Test Engineer. I think they changed the name because it was a better description of what they do. I suspect it also made it easier to hire for, although that might just be due to the aforementioned reason.

This is based off what I was told when I interviewed there a year ago.

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SETIs are what SETs used to be. TEs are different. So SETI == SET but SETI != TE and SET != TE
I appreciate the correction and apologize for misinforming people. Unfortunately I can no longer edit my original comment
Yeah no problem. Just wanted to clarify. The vocabulary is confusing.