What are the career paths for an Engineer

1. ENGINEERING CAREER
PATHS
Gayatri Tribhuvan: Orientation Program at Global Academy of
Technology

3. Information Technology

4. Planning
Project/Program Managers
• Former Engineers who have grown through the
organization
• Plan budgets and resources
• Key interest to move into Management
• Manage Teams of developers, testers and Business
Analysts, and works together with Architects
• PMP certification is key

5. Design
Software Architects
• Design the layout and framework of the product
• Study Usability and Design
• Manage the developers directly
• No interest in management, want to remain technical
• Require deep level knowledge in Servers, license and resource
management
• Mostly become consultation engineers on their own if they leave
the industry

6. Develop and
Implement
Software Programmers/Coders/Developers
• People who write the code for the product in different software
platforms
• Perform Unit testing
• Mostly assigned ‘modules’
• Sometimes perform Integration Testing
• Experienced developers mentor budding starters
• Code ‘Commenting’
• Fundamentals have to be strong in “Data Structures and
Programming”

7. Test, Deploy and Maintain
Software Testers
• People who test the developers finished product and find
“bugs”
• Write test cases and manually test
• Testing Automation and Scripting: Selenium, HP
quicktest…
• Quality Engineers
• Usability, Integration, deployment and maintenance
testing

8. Requirement Gathering
Business Analysts
• Act as an “interface” between the customer and the technical
team
• “Translate” customer into technical requirements and vice versa
• Need to have good technical knowledge as well as excellent
communication skills
• Need to have good skills in analyzing data
• UML Modeling, SAS, Story Telling.....
• This role varies from organization to organization

9. Electronics And
Communication
Fields
• VLSI, Chip and Circuit Design
• Network Engineering and Mobile Networks
• VOIP
• Signal Engineering
• Certifications like CCNA,CCNP will help
• Simulation Skills like Matlab, Wireshark
• Knowledge of Embedded Software programming – C and C++
• Software development knowledge an added plus
• Analog and Digital paths

10. Electronics And
Communication
Companies
Texas Instruments, Intel,AMD, CISCO,IBM,Samsung
Electronics, Sony,Toshiba Philips Semiconductors,
Nokia,Nvdia, HP, LG Electronics Bharat Heavy
Electrical's Limited (BHEL)
Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL)
National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC),HCL,
ISRO SYNTEL ,WIPRO, Siemens

11. Electrical and Electronics
Fields
• Electrical Circuit Design
• Board design and maintenance
• Instrumentation Engineer
• Knowledge of Embedded Software programming – C and C++
• Working and connecting cables, Ohm meters, microprocessors
and resistors…
• Software development knowledge an added plus

12. Electrical and Electronics
Companies
• 3M, ABB, Applied materials of India, BHEL, Flex, Kirloskar, Rittal,
Festo, Micron,…

13. Mechanical Engineering
Domains
• Automotive
• Aviation
• Aerospace
Roles
Main roles under Production and Design
• Design Engineer- Senior Design Engineer, Manufacturing
Manager (Line Functions), a lot of working on the shop floor,
required to deal with lot of blue collared employees
• Lot of 2D to 3D modeling involved, Beneficial to come out with
patents
• Many Mechanical Engineers later move to Sales, Quality or

14. Mechanical Engineering
Companies
• Robert Bosch
• Mercedes-Benz R&D India
• Continental
• Siemens
• General Motors
• Volvo

15. Civil Engineering
Roles, Sectors and Companies
• Building Control Surveyor
• Consulting Civil Engineer
• Contracting Civil Engineer
• Nuclear Engineer
• Design Engineer
• Site Engineer
• Structural Engineer
• Builders (Brigade ,Shobha, Sriram..), Namma Metro, Gina
Engineering…

16. Thank you!