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tindel
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This is my first post! Just found this forum - and I'm diggin it...
A little background:
I'm 30 living in Denver, CO. I have worked in aerospace since my senior year of high school.
I was brought on at my current company (large aerospace company) as a 'analog design engineer' which is translated into being in charge of the build, test, and integration of a heritage power distribution box. I'd classify my job more as a 'test engineer' or 'production engineer'.
Although the large amounts of worst case analysis I have produced has kept my circuit theory up-to-date, I have yet to actually design one single circuit. Sure, I've changed a few resistor values to meet the current program requirements and things like that, but that isn't design work, in my mind.
I'm a bit of a lab rat. I love being in the lab and testing items, working behind the scenes, and solving difficult problems. I would love to take the lab skills that I've learned and apply them to designing circuits.
I am open to leaving the space industry, but am committed to contributing to society in one way or another. Green Energy, the Medical Field, Etc.
The situation:
I've been looking for a fast paced job (preferably in Colorado, or working remotely) designing many PCBs. I'm talking 3 or more designs a year. Design, build, test, repeat. I would love to work with FPGA's, DSP, etc, so that I have a mix of digital and analog design in my repertoire. Does this job exist? Where do you find this job? How do you go about finding this job? The jobs I'm finding seem to all be with large corporations that don't seem to produce a lot of product. Maybe a single design in a year or more, or over as much as 5 years because the design has to be perfect.
I'd really like it if I were producing so much hardware that occasional failure is accepted as part of the risk to the work because what matters is throughput. This way I can learn quickly what designs and layouts work. I'm currently working in an industry where procedures and processes rule the world, because one failure could lose a whole spacecraft and cost millions (if not billions) so everything is over analyzed. And you typically don't even get to produce a development run because they are building heritage hardware to try to maximize profits.
I don't think I'd need to be licensed to do work like this, as I imagine that what I'm looking for is mostly new development work. Do you think it would be a good idea for me to go back and become licensed?
I'm thinking that what I'm looking for is a job with a small to medium sized firm that specializes in solving the electrical problems of other startup companies. This way I can get a large amount of design under my belt in a short amount of time using many different methods (analog, digital, mixed, FPGAs, DSP, etc). I know somebody has to be doing jobs like this. I'm just stumped as to where to find this job...
A little background:
I'm 30 living in Denver, CO. I have worked in aerospace since my senior year of high school.
I was brought on at my current company (large aerospace company) as a 'analog design engineer' which is translated into being in charge of the build, test, and integration of a heritage power distribution box. I'd classify my job more as a 'test engineer' or 'production engineer'.
Although the large amounts of worst case analysis I have produced has kept my circuit theory up-to-date, I have yet to actually design one single circuit. Sure, I've changed a few resistor values to meet the current program requirements and things like that, but that isn't design work, in my mind.
I'm a bit of a lab rat. I love being in the lab and testing items, working behind the scenes, and solving difficult problems. I would love to take the lab skills that I've learned and apply them to designing circuits.
I am open to leaving the space industry, but am committed to contributing to society in one way or another. Green Energy, the Medical Field, Etc.
The situation:
I've been looking for a fast paced job (preferably in Colorado, or working remotely) designing many PCBs. I'm talking 3 or more designs a year. Design, build, test, repeat. I would love to work with FPGA's, DSP, etc, so that I have a mix of digital and analog design in my repertoire. Does this job exist? Where do you find this job? How do you go about finding this job? The jobs I'm finding seem to all be with large corporations that don't seem to produce a lot of product. Maybe a single design in a year or more, or over as much as 5 years because the design has to be perfect.
I'd really like it if I were producing so much hardware that occasional failure is accepted as part of the risk to the work because what matters is throughput. This way I can learn quickly what designs and layouts work. I'm currently working in an industry where procedures and processes rule the world, because one failure could lose a whole spacecraft and cost millions (if not billions) so everything is over analyzed. And you typically don't even get to produce a development run because they are building heritage hardware to try to maximize profits.
I don't think I'd need to be licensed to do work like this, as I imagine that what I'm looking for is mostly new development work. Do you think it would be a good idea for me to go back and become licensed?
I'm thinking that what I'm looking for is a job with a small to medium sized firm that specializes in solving the electrical problems of other startup companies. This way I can get a large amount of design under my belt in a short amount of time using many different methods (analog, digital, mixed, FPGAs, DSP, etc). I know somebody has to be doing jobs like this. I'm just stumped as to where to find this job...
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