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ATS resume keywords for Embedded and Electronics

These are the 26 terms our scorer checks a Embedded and Electronics resume against. It is the same list the free check uses, published in full.

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The vocabulary

Coverage is 25 of the 100 points. Sixty percent of this list is full marks, so you do not need all of it, and stuffing every term in is penalised separately.

  • embedded c
  • microcontroller
  • firmware
  • rtos
  • arm
  • stm32
  • arduino
  • pcb design
  • schematic
  • altium
  • verilog
  • vhdl
  • fpga
  • vlsi
  • uart
  • spi
  • i2c
  • can protocol
  • iot
  • sensor
  • device driver
  • oscilloscope
  • hardware testing
  • debugging
  • matlab
  • bring-up

The eight questions for Embedded and Electronics

The guided builder asks these, in this order, and turns each answer into a line on the page. Nothing is written that you did not type.

  1. 1.Which microcontrollers, processors or platforms have you shipped firmware or hardware on?
  2. 2.How many products or boards have you taken to production?
  3. 3.What volume does your product ship at, in units per year?
  4. 4.Which protocols, interfaces and tools do you work with daily?
  5. 5.What have you reduced in power, cost, size or boot time, and by how much?
  6. 6.How many certifications or compliance tests has your product passed?
  7. 7.How many engineers do you work with or lead across hardware, firmware and test?
  8. 8.What is the hardest field failure or design fault you have diagnosed and fixed?
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Words are the easy half

A resume can carry every term above and still be rejected, because coverage says what you know and nothing about what you delivered. The heaviest category on the rubric is evidence: how many of your bullets carry an actual figure.

Seven in ten is full marks. Most resumes we see manage two.

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