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by anitil 930 days ago
Great reply. I have some follow-on questions -

Would you market yourself as an expert on these in a job search or as a developer etc, with additional expertise? Is this an area where companies typically need people full-time, or is it better suited to short term contracts?

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As someone with experience in this myself: It depends on where you want to be in the foodchain.

This comes up with companies that need to meet these standards to sell to someone in the Federal space (or someone who is selling to someone in the Federal space). They need to certify their products and maintain some level of certification.

You can be a consultant who helps companies get their products through an initial certification. You can be a full time employee who executes on designs and makes sure that no invariants get violated (which, after certification, would be a small amount of normal maintenance duties). Or you can work for a certification lab, since all of this is outsourced to a cottage industry of private companies!

This is pretty spot-on.