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Typical day as an Electrical engineer at a autonomous vehicles company. - Work on Schematics and layout for various different boards (usually only get time for
by FreedomToCreate 10y ago
Typical day as an Electrical engineer at a autonomous vehicles company.
- Work on Schematics and layout for various different boards (usually only get time for one each day).
- Go to meetings with multiple different engineering teams to make sure that cross-functional requirements are being met (usually the software and mechanical guys making demands of what they need which just means what they want to make their life easier by making the EE's suffer).
- troubleshoot issues on the already built hardware and add the fixes to upcoming revisions.
- Argue with purchasing department about the reason I need to get a certain type of testing equipment.
-A lot of component research and validation and meetings with vendors to determine if that components is right one.
and this is just the pure hardware tasks. There is always potential to have to deal with firmware issues as well.
I may spent half my day at my desk, at least an hour or two in a lab and the rest is for meetings.
- cushychicken 10y agoGod, meetings. So many meetings. Why? Why?!
- mac01021 10y agoA significant fraction of designing any complex system consists of getting the people who design different parts to agree on the interface between those parts.
- cushychicken 10y agoThat was a very high minded response to an attempt at commiserating.
- mac01021 10y agoYeah. Sorry... I do think, though, that it's possible for an organization to structure it's meetings so that they're a useful and productive part of the job, and not a thing to be dreaded in the least. I've seen this done with varying degrees of success/failure.
- cushychicken 10y agoI think a real problem is that meetings bloat in attendance, and that the amount of useful stuff you can get done is inversely proportional of the number of attendees. I think this is doubly true when you don't have good, clear leadership and agendas. This doesn't happen that often in my experience. I feel like I go to a lot of meetings with a lot of people who are just there to be "in the loop" rather than actually contributing to the topic at hand.
- johan_larson 10y agoBecause our hive-mind technology is sadly underdeveloped. :( If there were a Borg-a-Tron 5000 that we could all stick our heads in to let dev and QA and PM and mgt know what the rest of the team was thinking, I'd use it. But only during work hours.
- jwise0 10y agoHow much time do you spend these days being chased by ISO 26262 requirements, and the like?
- mighty_atomic_c 10y agoOh God! Not the automotive requirements!