Tool liaison vs senior staff engineer

The differences between tool liaisons and senior staff engineers can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. While it typically takes 2-4 years to become a tool liaison, becoming a senior staff engineer takes usually requires 4-6 years. Additionally, a senior staff engineer has an average salary of $136,031, which is higher than the $83,524 average annual salary of a tool liaison.

The top three skills for a tool liaison include jigs, CATIA and design requests. The most important skills for a senior staff engineer are python, java, and architecture.

Tool liaison vs senior staff engineer overview

	Tool Liaison	Senior Staff Engineer
Yearly salary	$83,524	$136,031
Hourly rate	$40.16	$65.40
Growth rate	10%	2%
Number of jobs	13,025	239,752
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 63%	Bachelor's Degree, 65%
Average age	42	41
Years of experience	4	6

Tool liaison vs senior staff engineer salary

Tool liaisons and senior staff engineers have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Tool Liaison	Senior Staff Engineer
Average salary	$83,524	$136,031
Salary range	Between $42,000 And $163,000	Between $95,000 And $194,000
Highest paying City	-	San Mateo, CA
Highest paying state	-	California
Best paying company	-	Airbnb
Best paying industry	-	Telecommunication

Differences between tool liaison and senior staff engineer education

There are a few differences between a tool liaison and a senior staff engineer in terms of educational background:

	Tool Liaison	Senior Staff Engineer
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 63%	Bachelor's Degree, 65%
Most common major	Mechanical Engineering	Electrical Engineering
Most common college	Northwestern University	California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Tool liaison vs senior staff engineer demographics

Here are the differences between tool liaisons' and senior staff engineers' demographics:

	Tool Liaison	Senior Staff Engineer
Average age	42	41
Gender ratio	Male, 89.2% Female, 10.8%	Male, 78.4% Female, 21.6%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 4.9% Unknown, 4.0% Hispanic or Latino, 12.0% Asian, 9.6% White, 69.3% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%	Black or African American, 3.1% Unknown, 4.5% Hispanic or Latino, 7.8% Asian, 16.8% White, 67.6% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.1%
LGBT Percentage	4%	5%

Differences between tool liaison and senior staff engineer duties and responsibilities

Tool liaison example responsibilities.

Apply for and achieve ISO certification.
Manage implementation of these solutions with hangar managers, inspectors, technicians, vendors, and OEM's.
Review changes and issues utilizing CATIA and VPM.
Design work are produced both on paper and on CATIA V4.
Collaborate with CMM equipment in the inspection of inventory shipments, ensuring all materials comply with government quality requirements and specifications.
Perform some QA inspections with raw sheet material for customer qualifications and cost saving projects.

Senior staff engineer example responsibilities.

Provide consultation to the ISO team in achieving certification, and enable company to win many more deals as a result.
Participate in iterative software development including UML modeling, code, unit test and integration of Java web services.
Develop command line interface (python) for backend distribute storage middleware.
Define and streamline API need to interface with new set of user applications.
Perform requirements gathering, functional analysis, mentoring, status tracking and reporting, Java and XSL coding.
Ensure properly working product by utilizing experience in code debugging, analyzing field log, and system test log.

Tool liaison vs senior staff engineer skills

Common tool liaison skills

Jigs, 56%
CATIA, 29%
Design Requests, 16%

Common senior staff engineer skills

Python, 11%
Java, 10%
Architecture, 9%
Software Development, 4%
Linux, 4%
SQL, 3%