System integration
General
System Integration is the bringing together of the component sub-systems into one system and ensuring that the sub-systems function as a system.
In todays connected world the role of System Integration engineer is becoming more and more important, more and more systems are designed to connect together, both within the system under construction and to systems that are already deployed.
Skills Required
A System Integration engineer needs a broad range of skills and is likely to be defined by a breadth of knowledge rather than a depth of knowledge.
These skills are likely to include software and hardware engineering, interface protocols, and general problem solving skills. It is likely that the problems to be solved have not been solved before except in the broadest sense. They are likely to include new and challanging problems with an input from a broad range of engineers where the System Integration engineer 'pulls it all together'.