Also called: Field Engineer, Customer Service Engineer
Travels to customer sites to install, fix and upgrade complex equipment like MRI machines, chip tools or gas turbines.
Your phone buzzes: a hospital's CT scanner is down. You fly in, run diagnostics, replace a failed component and recalibrate it so patients can be scanned by evening. Next week you're installing a new one in another state.
Travel and overtime pay can add a lot.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in engineering or engineering technology; some roles accept an associate plus experience.
Ways in: 4-year college, 2-year college. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Engineering Technology.
Growing about average.
Low risk for 10 years. Remote diagnostics and AI guides speed repairs; traveling to fix complex machines on site stays human.
Classes: Physics, Electronics CTE, Computer science, Speech or debate.
Official data: O*NET occupation 17-2199.
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