What are the core skills I should build to become a strong hardware design / embedded systems engineer? Hi everyone, I’m a 3rd-year Electrical and Electronics Engineering student, and I’m trying to build a strong career path in **embedded systems, FPGA/digital design, and hardware-related engineering**. My long-term goal is to work as one of the following: * Embedded Software Engineer * Embedded Systems Engineer * FPGA / Digital Design Engineer * Hardware Design Engineer Right now, I’m trying to understand what skills are truly important in the industry, not just what looks good on paper. I have started learning and working with topics such as: * STM32 microcontrollers * C programming for embedded systems * UART / SPI / I2C communication * Verilog and FPGA development * Vivado * Basic digital design * Sensor-based projects * STM32 + FPGA communication projects I’m especially interested in projects where an **STM32 and an FPGA communicate with each other**, for example through UART or SPI.…