[Moved] Should I consider a career as a PCB design engineer?

[than_wu]

I have 2 years experience in RTL design and verification, FPGAs, etc. (w/ BSEE)

A job opportunity has come up as a PCB design engineer (posted as hardware engineer) but looks like there is
a distinction between PCB design engineer and PCB layout engineer. (from what I read on the web)

PCB design engineer seems to be a professional job that requires a degree
on the other hand PCB layout engineer is a technician job that requires no degree.

I don't want to go down a technician path.

Please.. Advise me.. I'm sure there are many gurus out there.

Ideally I want to do this job for a few years and get into a higher hardware engineering role.
I don't want to go down the wrong path.. looks like I can learn a lot of signal integrity and maybe
move on to a SI engineer later .. which is distinguished.

So question is.. is a PCB design engineer a professional job
that requires a degree and respected in the industry or will people confuse it with a technician job?

Thanks for helping me.

 

[cks3976]

PCB designing is certainly a very professional and at times- artistic job. But unfortunately sometimes treated as a technician job. But since you already have some experience in RTL, it would be better to continue in that domain...