Electronics Hardware Engineering
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Career Explorer · Electronics & Semiconductor Operations · Hardware Engineering
Entry: Hardware EngineerIC ceiling: IC8Both
Individual contributor route
Technical or professional depth, without managing people.
- Hardware Engineer InternIC0Optional developmental level
- Associate Hardware EngineerIC1
- Hardware EngineerIC2
- Senior Hardware EngineerIC3
- Staff Hardware EngineerIC4
- Principal Hardware EngineerIC5
- Senior Principal Hardware EngineerIC6
- Distinguished Hardware EngineerIC7
- Fellow, Electronics Hardware EngineeringIC8
Management route
Managing people. It is not the step above the individual route: it is a different job and asks for different evidence.
This family has no management ladder.
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