I believe that Engineers who work closest to the surgeon customer have the biggest career opportunities.
You will notice that most CEOs with tech backgrounds, worked closely with surgeons early in their career. This is part of my advice for young engineers here - Real Career Advice for Young Engineers.
RANKED from closest to the customer to farthest away from the customer.
Product Development Engineer (other titles are R&D Engineer, Design Engineer, Project Engineer, Principal Engineer) - This Engineer usually has Mechanical background. They work with surgeons, do CAD design, prototyping, testing, . Other Engineering disciplines in Product Development are Electrical Engineer, Software Engineer, and Mechatronics Engineer.
Technical Field Engineer - This Engineer works in sales but provides technical assistance in surgery with the sales rep.
Systems Engineer - This Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining the information technology systems for medical device.
Testing Engineer - This Engineer breaks things and writes reports (usually found in bigger companies)
Quality Engineer (aka Quality Assurance Engineer) - This Engineer ss responsible for determi...
