Electronics Engineers, Except Computer
Research, design, develop, or test electronic components and systems for commercial, industrial, military, or scientific use employing knowledge of electronic theory and materials properties. Design electronic circuits and components for use in fields such as telecommunications, aerospace guidance and propulsion control, acoustics, or instruments and controls.
Also known as: Antenna Engineer · Circuit Designer · Automation Engineer · Commercial Engineer · Audio Visual Manager · Circuit Design Engineer
This score estimates how exposed the tasks in a role are to current and near-term AI capabilities. It does not predict whether a specific person will lose a job.
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This occupation baseline already contains different kinds of work. These are the two ends of its current task range and one useful action you can take now.
Most exposed task
Prepare, review, or maintain maintenance schedules, design documentation, or operational reports or charts.
Augmentable 60/100 exposure
Most durable task
Represent employer at conferences, meetings, boards, panels, committees, or working groups to present, explain, or defend findings or recommendations, negotiate compromises or agreements, or exchange information.
Durable 25/100 exposure
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No task is classified fully automatable in this release. The highest-exposure task relative to this role is shown in the free snapshot above; the assistive work is detailed next.
Augmentable tasks
Work where AI assists rather than replaces — the productivity frontier of this role.
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Prepare, review, or maintain maintenance schedules, design documentation, or operational reports or charts.60
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Operate computer-assisted engineering or design software or equipment to perform electronics engineering tasks.55
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Prepare documentation containing information such as confidential descriptions or specifications of proprietary hardware or software, product development or introduction schedules, product costs, or information about product performance weaknesses.55
Most durable tasks
Lowest exposure — typically judgment, relationships, physical presence, or accountability. This is the human moat.
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Direct or coordinate activities concerned with manufacture, construction, installation, maintenance, operation, or modification of electronic equipment, products, or systems.25
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Confer with engineers, customers, vendors, or others to discuss existing or potential electronics engineering projects or products.25
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Inspect electronic equipment, instruments, products, or systems to ensure conformance to specifications, safety standards, or applicable codes or regulations.25
Task exposure values and classifications are published, versioned estimates audited against the anchored rubric. This page reads them from the data release rather than generating them at request time. Bars show exposure contribution relative to this role’s task mix.
What this means
A score of 43 puts Electronics Engineers, Except Computer in the third quartile of analyzed occupations. In practice, exposure this high is about the mix: 0 of 20 analyzed tasks lean automatable, 16 augmentable, and 4 durable. The useful question isn’t “will AI take this job” — it’s which tasks go first, which get faster, and where to reposition time. That’s what the personalized report maps against your actual week.
Lower-exposure adjacent roles
No adjacent role in the current data release is at least 10 points lower with ≥50% skill overlap — we don’t label anything “safer” unless the data supports it.
Labor-market context
- $130,220median wage
- 96,900employed
- 5,700annual openings
- +6.2%projected growth
Context only — labor statistics are not inputs to the exposure score. See methodology.
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Adjacent by skills or family — no exposure claim implied.
How this score was calculated
The score is the plain average of the AI-exposure values of this role’s 20 analyzed tasks (equal task weights in this release — no hidden factors):
- Augmentable 16 tasks, averaging 47/100 exposure
- Durable 4 tasks, averaging 25/100 exposure
score = (16×47 + 4×25) ÷ 20 ≈ 43
Every task’s exposure value was scored against a published anchored rubric that scores tasks as actually performed — physical, in-person, and accountability requirements included (data release 2026.07.12-r2). The band (High) is a corpus quartile; the percentile is tie-aware across all 968 occupations.
FAQ — Electronics Engineers, Except Computer
- Will AI replace Electronics Engineers, Except Computer?
- This score cannot predict whether this occupation or any individual job will be replaced. It shows which tasks current and near-term AI can perform or accelerate, which tasks remain more durable, and where a worker can adapt. Employer decisions, demand, regulation, and how the role changes are outside the score.
- What does a score of 43 mean for a Electronics Engineers, Except Computer?
- It means that, weighted across the 20 tasks we analyzed for this role, the task mix sits at 43 on a 0–100 exposure scale — in the third quartile of analyzed occupations. It measures task exposure to current and near-term AI capabilities, not the probability of losing a job.
- Which tasks in this role are most exposed to AI?
- This role has no strongly automatable task in the current data release.
- Which parts of this job are most durable?
- The most durable responsibilities are: Direct or coordinate activities concerned with manufacture, construction, installation, maintenance, operation, or modification of electronic equipment, products, or systems; Confer with engineers, customers, vendors, or others to discuss existing or potential electronics engineering projects or products; Inspect electronic equipment, instruments, products, or systems to ensure conformance to specifications, safety standards, or applicable codes or regulations. Durable tasks typically depend on judgment, relationships, physical presence, or accountability.
- Is this score personalized to me?
- No — this page shows the occupation-level baseline. Two people with the same title often do different work. The $9 personalized report recalculates the score from the tasks you actually do and builds a concrete 7/30/90-day plan around them.
Score version jr-v1 · data release 2026.07.12-r2 · updated 2026-07-13 · baseline mapping: 20 of 20 tasks carry source-level provenance · methodology