hardware engineer

Circuit board creator

A hardware engineer designs, develops, and tests physical computing components—processors, circuit boards, memory systems, and other electronic equipment.

The role contrasts with software engineering, which deals with code rather than physical devices.

She's a hardware engineer at Intel, working on chip architecture.

The term sometimes extends to engineers working on non-computing physical systems.

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motherboard · chip · chip design · PCB · firmware · debugger · breadboard · resistor · capacitor · transistor · multimeter · prototype · silicon · embedded · voltage · wiring · datasheet · microcontroller

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