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Professionals · code 2152

Electronics engineers

Electronics engineers conduct research on, design, and direct the construction functioning, maintenance and repair of electronic systems, and study and advise on technological aspects of electronic engineering materials, products or processes. Tasks include - (a) advising on and designing electronic devices or components, circuits, semi-conductors, and systems; (b) specifying production or installation methods, materials and quality standards, and directing production or installation work of electronic products and systems; (c) establishing control standards and procedures to ensure efficient functioning and safety of electronic systems, motors and equipment; (d) organizing and directing maintenance and repair of existing electronic systems and equipment; (e) designing electronic circuits and components for use in fields such as aerospace guidance and propulsion control, acoustics, or instruments and controls; (f) researching and advising on radar, telemetry and remote control systems, microwaves and other electronic equipment; (g) designing and developing signal processing algorithms and implementing these through appropriate choice of hardware and software; (h) developing apparatus and procedures to test electronic components, circuits and systems. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Computer hardware engineer - Electronics engineer - Instrumentation engineer Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Telecommunications engineer - 2153

A good share of the tasks are affected. It ranks 339 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • electronics engineer

Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.

57.6
Holds up
against AI Exposed: Gradient 2

AI could take on 42.4 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 42.4 = 57.6

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

26.5
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 3 US jobs

27.2
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 38.8 · hand skill 30.9 · cramped spaces 11.8 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on

Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

What this number leaves out This job rates 26.5 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 60.5, while the average is 42.4. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 60.5

    Designing and developing signal processing algorithms and implementing these through appropriate choice of hardware and software

    Medium
  2. 55

    Researching and advising on radar, telemetry and remote control systems, microwaves and other electronic equipment

    Medium
  3. 52.5

    Advising on and designing electronic devices or components, circuits, semi-conductors and systems

    Medium
  4. 45.6

    Designing electronic circuits and components for use in fields such as aerospace guidance and propulsion control, acoustics, or instruments and controls

    Low
  5. 35

    Specifying production or installation methods, materials and quality standards, and directing production or installation work of electronic products and systems

    Low
  6. 34.8

    Developing apparatus and procedures to test electronic components, circuits and systems.

    Low
  7. 33.3

    Establishing control standards and procedures to ensure efficient functioning and safety of electronic systems, motors and equipment

    Low
  8. 22.4

    Organising and directing maintenance and repair of existing electronic systems and equipment

    Very Low

8 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

2 Australian jobs match this one, and we've simply averaged them. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.

AI helps you
73.5
AI does it for you
33.5

Helping wins by 40 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 2334, 2339

Compared with similar jobs

There are 92 jobs in the “Professionals” group, averaging 61.4. This one is below that.