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■ What is a systems engineer?
After developing systems for about 20 years, I decided to reorganize what a systems engineer does.
What does a systems engineer do?
Simply saying, the job involves finding out what users want and what they are worried about, and then solving them with a computer.
When I was a student, I majored in mechanical engineering, and when we did experiments in the lab, everyone used a calculator to calculate the experimental data.
When I wrote a program that could easily compile the measured data, everyone was very happy, and that’s where my motivation for choosing to become a systems engineer began.
It may be simplistic, but the motivation for work is the same. You can work hard because you believe that someone will be happy.
What is the reward of a systems engineer’s job?
The interesting thing about a systems engineer’s job is that you can create new creative things.
When a new system is up and running, operations using the system begin, and work becomes more efficient.
An in-house system can save on labor costs and allow for investment in new things.
For restaurants, the price of a meal may go down or the menu may increase.
For home appliance manufacturers, new home appliances connected to the system may be born.
It may become possible to make nighttime transfers, which was not possible before.
In this way, I think it is a job that is useful to the world, leading to the creation of new things.
If you are particularly familiar with the industry, you can be active as a professional. The annual salary of a systems engineer depends on which process you focus on, but it seems that SEs in charge of upstream processes are higher than engineers in other industries.
How do I become a systems engineer?
It is best to have a background of majoring in software engineering or information processing engineering at university, but the SEs I know around me are not limited to such educational backgrounds.
It seems that they learn IT knowledge by themselves or acquire technical knowledge through in-house training after joining the company.
I also think that by gaining a lot of experience in the field, I can become a good systems engineer.