NOC 2021 · 21311 · TEER 1
Computer engineers (except software engineers and designers)
Unit group 21311 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Computer engineers (except software engineers and designers) research, plan, design, develop, modify, evaluate and integrate computer and telecommunications hardware and related equipment, and information and communication system networks including mainframe systems, local and wide area networks, fibre-optic networks, wireless communication networks, intranets, the Internet and other data communications systems. They are employed by computer and telecommunication hardware manufacturers, by engineering, manufacturing and telecommunications firms, in information technology consulting firms, by governmental, educational and research institutions and in information technology units throughout the private and public sectors.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design engineer
- capacity planning analyst
- computer engineer
- computer engineer (except software)
- computer engineering project manager
- computer hardware engineer
- computer systems engineer
- computer telecommunications specialist
- data communications specialist
- fibre-optic network designer
- hardware circuit board designer
- hardware design engineer
- hardware development engineer
- hardware engineer
- hardware technical architect
- information technology (IT) solutions engineer
- infrastructure architect - information technology (IT)
- microprocessor designer and application engineer
- microwave systems engineer
- microwave transmission systems engineer
- network architect - computer systems
- network capacity planner
- network designer - computer systems
- network engineer - communication hardware
- network infrastructure engineer
- network specialist - computer systems
- network support engineer
- network systems engineer
- network test engineer
- optical communications engineer
- optical communications hardware engineer
- optical systems engineer - telecommunications
- radio systems engineer
- satellite data transmission engineer
- spacecraft electronics engineer - hardware
- systems designer - hardware
- technical architect - hardware
- telecommunications engineer
- telecommunications hardware engineer
- telecommunications hardware specialist
- telecommunications specialist - computer systems
- telecommunications systems specialist
- wireless communications network engineer
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0. Data current as of 13 August 2026. NOC 2021 Version 1.0. The classification is versioned rather than dated — IRCC moved to it in November 2022, and a new version would be a new classification rather than an update.