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by Dracophoenix
1464 days ago
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What's the market like for embedded engineers working on cutting-edge hardware? Is asm still relevant as an employable skill? How much of your work requires heavy EE knowledge? Assuming that you're at Qualcomm/Samsung/Mediatek, do you do any microcoding or is that handled by other teams? |
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Where I work we are always looking for engineers. We struggle to fill positions. And other local companies are facing this very same problem. There is high demand and little supply. Universities here are all focused on theory and most fresh EE don't know how to blink an LED with passive components. Just a few wrote some lines of code or actually produced a PCB.
We have some "cutting-edge" applications, and we have to maintain/update old projects too. You never get bored.
> Is asm still relevant as an employable skill?
It's a plus. I rarely write/maintain asm (like at least for the last couple of years).
> How much of your work requires heavy EE knowledge?
Not much. I mainly code, but I have to know the basics, like being able to use an oscilloscope to find a noisy power supply or a missing pull-up giving me headaches, know how communication busses work, reading datasheets, etc.
> Assuming that you're at Qualcomm/Samsung/Mediatek
I work at a mid-size automotive company in Italy.