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エンジニア

also: エンジニアー · エンジニヤ · エンジニヤー

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Common wordJLPTN2Freq.FrequencyTop 10,000

Meanings

1

noun

A katakana noun for an engineer or technical professional; very common in job titles such as システムエンジニア and ソフトウェアエンジニア.

彼かれはソフトウェアエンジニアとして働はたらいている。
He works as a software engineer.
この会かい社しゃでは経けい験けんのあるエンジニアを募ぼ集しゅうして

いる

。

This company is recruiting experienced engineers.

Written forms

エンジニアUsage100%
Standard katakana spelling and the only priority form.
エンジニアーUsage<1%
search-only kana form
This long-vowel variant is a search-only kana form; エンジニア is the normal spelling.

Similar words

技ぎ術じゅつ者しゃ
A kanji-based term for a technical specialist or engineer; it can sound more formal or general than エンジニア.
技ぎ師し
A more official or title-like term for an engineer or technician, often used in institutional job titles.
プログラマー
Narrower than エンジニア in IT contexts; a プログラマー mainly writes code, while an エンジニア may also design systems or handle infrastructure.

Etymology

Written in katakana as a foreign-style term for 'engineer'; no explicit language-of-origin information is specified.