- Work on Schematics and layout for various different boards (usually only get time for one each day). - Go to meetings with multiple different engineering teams to make sure that cross-functional requirements are being met (usually the software and mechanical guys making demands of what they need which just means what they want to make their life easier by making the EE's suffer). - troubleshoot issues on the already built hardware and add the fixes to upcoming revisions. - Argue with purchasing department about the reason I need to get a certain type of testing equipment.
-A lot of component research and validation and meetings with vendors to determine if that components is right one.
and this is just the pure hardware tasks. There is always potential to have to deal with firmware issues as well.
I may spent half my day at my desk, at least an hour or two in a lab and the rest is for meetings.