Job opportunities as a computer engineer

yagottabelieve
Mon, 25 Jun 2012 17:58:41 +0000

You could become a programmer with a computer engineering degree. Other titles you might get are Software Engineer, Firmware Engineer, Hardware Engineer, or many others, depending upon the work you’re doing.

At Apple, you could work on iOS, Mac OS X, software drivers for peripheral devices (USB, Bluetooth, FireWire, Thunderbolt), wireless and wired protocols, and many other things.

Companies like Juniper and Cisco that build routers, switches, and other network equipment hire people with computer engineering backgrounds to develop similar types of software and/or firmware. Companies like VMware hire people with computer engineering backgrounds to build the virtualization and cloud platform software.

While doing well in school helps, you may even get more recognition and respect from developing open-sourceware. I know many people who didn’t even finish college who went on to highly successful careers on the strength of their open-source contributions.