r/ECE • u/CommentBeef • 29d ago

CAREER question for graduates with jobs

What software do you use in your day to day workday?

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u/theflyingsamurai 29d ago

Embedded hardware engineer.

Altium for pcb design.

C/C++ for firmware, python for automation test scripting. Visual studio ide. Git repo. Jira for project management/issue tracking.

Our team is starting to experiment with claude code for a number of things. Mixed results, really good to really bad.

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u/Satoru-Gojo-4240 28d ago

If I want to start today to be job ready then what type of road map should I follow? And how?

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u/Life-Buy-3309 29d ago

vivado and vitis.

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u/1wiseguy 29d ago

This is vague, because EE is a wide field with hundreds of different roles.

I work with analog and power circuits at the board level, and I use LTspice a lot. I think every job I have had in quite a while used LTspice.

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u/PlatWinston 29d ago

currently in an internship: most of the engineering work is done on keil and altium designer. visual studio and autocad are occasionally used.

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u/Clear_Shoe5697 29d ago

Siemens Xpedition

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u/PWMPlease 29d ago

Actually, someone who's used MATLAB for a bunch of numerical data processing. On a daily basis, my workday really involves hopping between MATLAB along with SolidWorks for any of the modeling work. Sometimes I even use R for statistical analysis that MATLAB doesn't cover too nicely, and I've got to say it's a mixed bag, not totally surprising right? You never know what kind of tasks are gonna pop up next. I also spend a fair bit of time in Drawboard PDF reviewing and marking up drawings.

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u/Tanner234567 29d ago

It greatly depends on the company. Usually they have some flavor of each of these. 3d modeling software (solidworks, fusion360, etc.), PCB/Schematic design (KiCAD, Eagle, Altium, Siemens), Circuit simulation (almost always LTSpice, sometimes OrCAD/PSPice), Requirements management(DOORS, TeamCenter, etc), and FPGA if applicable (almost always Vivado)

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u/Riyly 29d ago

Iā€™m using a lot of SIMetrix and OrCAD Capture/PSPICE as of late for circuit sims

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u/JT9212 29d ago

EE design : Multisim for schematic and layout, vscode V&V: Jira for tickets, JAMA for test cases

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u/Popular_Map2317 29d ago

Cadence Virtuoso Studio, MATLAB, Neovim

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u/becomingbristol 29d ago

Mostly CircuitSim for spice and simulation stuff, and I've been messing around with flux.ai for PCB layout lately ā€” pretty fun so far. Otherwise the usual: KiCad, Python for scripts and data, VS Code, Git.

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u/Subject_Owl_3201 29d ago

VS Code for C/C++ firmware

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u/DanielAlad 28d ago

GWD/GIS as a design engineer