Software engineer

Software engineers create, maintain, audit and improve systems to meet particular needs. They test hardware and software systems to diagnose and resolve system faults. Software engineers also write diagnostic programs and write code for operating systems and software.

Attributes: logical, patient, communicator

Useful links:

• The Primary Science Teaching Trust has a downloadable slideshow (PDF) about Edward Thompson and a downloadable slideshow (PDF) about Rebecca Harding who are software engineers. It’s part of their resource A Scientist Just Like Me.

• Google Image Search link