Vibration engineer vs senior engineer

The differences between vibration engineers and senior 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 vibration engineer, becoming a senior engineer takes usually requires 4-6 years. Additionally, a senior engineer has an average salary of $108,743, which is higher than the $98,853 average annual salary of a vibration engineer.

The top three skills for a vibration engineer include MATLAB, data analysis and NVH. The most important skills for a senior engineer are java, python, and architecture.

Vibration engineer vs senior engineer overview

	Vibration Engineer	Senior Engineer
Yearly salary	$98,853	$108,743
Hourly rate	$47.53	$52.28
Growth rate	6%	2%
Number of jobs	21,285	343,200
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 74%	Bachelor's Degree, 68%
Average age	44	41
Years of experience	4	6

Vibration engineer vs senior engineer salary

Vibration engineers and senior engineers have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Vibration Engineer	Senior Engineer
Average salary	$98,853	$108,743
Salary range	Between $69,000 And $140,000	Between $82,000 And $144,000
Highest paying City	Fremont, CA	San Mateo, CA
Highest paying state	California	California
Best paying company	Apple	Roku
Best paying industry	-	Start-up

Differences between vibration engineer and senior engineer education

There are a few differences between a vibration engineer and a senior engineer in terms of educational background:

	Vibration Engineer	Senior Engineer
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 74%	Bachelor's Degree, 68%
Most common major	Mechanical Engineering	Electrical Engineering
Most common college	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Michigan Technological University

Vibration engineer vs senior engineer demographics

Here are the differences between vibration engineers' and senior engineers' demographics:

	Vibration Engineer	Senior Engineer
Average age	44	41
Gender ratio	Male, 94.0% Female, 6.0%	Male, 89.1% Female, 10.9%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 3.8% Unknown, 4.3% Hispanic or Latino, 9.1% Asian, 19.2% White, 63.3% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%	Black or African American, 3.1% Unknown, 4.5% Hispanic or Latino, 7.9% Asian, 17.1% White, 67.2% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.1%
LGBT Percentage	8%	5%

Differences between vibration engineer and senior engineer duties and responsibilities

Vibration engineer example responsibilities.

Manage Jenkins security by providing specific access to authorize developers/testers using project base matrix authorization strategy.
Perform transfer path analysis to root cause dominant paths and contributions to NVH performance issues.
Create and review dynamic FEA models in PATRAN/NASTRAN.
Develop comparisons of competition for vehicle air bind using LMS software.
Develop a frequency-base stencil for condition base monitoring and accepting/rejecting transmissions and torque converters base on NVH.
Develop simulation strategies for designing and evaluating ultrasonic horns and transducers using vibration finite element analysis (FEA).

Senior engineer example responsibilities.

Tune the TCP/IP, NFS and CIFS for 1Gb and 10Gb Ethernet to achieve performance goals.
Manage multiple releases of a global CRM initiative with on time and within budget deployment.
Implement and support migration tool used to automate promotion of code throughout all SDLC environments.
Manage & lead process analysis, design, & ERP implementation engagements at various client locations.
Design, lead design, or participate in design of five T/R modules for phase array antennas.
Create customized shell scripts to start-up and shut-down WebLogic admin and manage servers and integrate them with the OS.

Vibration engineer vs senior engineer skills

Common vibration engineer skills

MATLAB, 16%
Data Analysis, 16%
NVH, 14%
FEA, 11%
Modal Analysis, 9%
Acquisition Systems, 8%

Common senior engineer skills

Java, 10%
Python, 9%
Architecture, 7%
JavaScript, 4%
API, 4%
GIT, 3%