Jobs / Architecture and engineering / 17-3012.00
Electrical and Electronics Drafters
Prepare wiring diagrams, circuit board assembly diagrams, and layout drawings used for the manufacture, installation, or repair of electrical equipment.
- US jobs
- 17,920
- Median wage
- $76,870 a year
- Job family
- Architecture and engineering
Can agents do the work of electrical and electronics drafters?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Architecture and engineering:
- Task levelUnexploredNo task-level benchmark in our collection tests architecture or engineering design work, such as CAD modeling or engineering calculations.
- Project levelNot yetWhole projects are mostly out of reach. The Remote Labor Index includes 3D, CAD, and architecture projects; across all its projects, the best agent completed 15.8% to a standard a client would accept. GDPval includes mechanical engineers, and its deliverables score higher, but those tasks are one-shot and fully specified.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in architecture and engineering, not always this occupation's tasks.
- 1846 EloClaude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) · 23 Sep 2026Unrated
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Draft detail and assembly drawings of design components, circuitry or printed circuit boards, using computer-assisted equipment or standard drafting techniques and devices.
- Draft working drawings, wiring diagrams, wiring connection specifications, or cross-sections of underground cables, as required for instructions to installation crew.
- Assemble documentation packages and produce drawing sets to be checked by an engineer or an architect.
- Review completed construction drawings and cost estimates for accuracy and conformity to standards and regulations.
- Consult with engineers to discuss or interpret design concepts, or determine requirements of detailed working drawings.
- Confer with engineering staff and other personnel to resolve problems.
- Measure factors that affect installation and arrangement of equipment, such as distances to be spanned by wire and cable.
- Design electrical systems, such as lighting systems.
- Draw master sketches to scale showing relation of proposed installations to existing facilities and exact specifications and dimensions.
- Review work orders or procedural manuals and confer with vendors or design staff to resolve problems or modify design.
- Locate files relating to specified design project in database library, load program into computer, and record completed job data.
- Examine electronic schematics and supporting documents to develop, compute, and verify specifications for drafting data, such as configuration of parts, dimensions, or tolerances.
Other job titles for this occupation (48)
Computer-Aided Design Operator · Designer · Drafter · Drafting Technician (Drafting Tech) · Electrical Designer · Electrical Drafter · Layout Designer · Printed Circuit Board Designer (PCB Designer) · Staking Engineer · Staking Technician (Staking Tech) · Analog Design Engineer · Analog Integrated Circuits Design Engineer (Analog IC Design Engineer) · AutoCAD Drafter · AutoCAD Technician · CAD Drafter (Computer-Aided Design Drafter) · CAD Draftsman (Computer-Aided Design Draftsman) · CADD Drafter (Computer-Aided Design and Drafting Drafter) · Circuit Board Drafter · Circuit Designer · Computer-Aided Design Designer (CAD Designer) · Computer-Aided Design Technician (CAD Tech) · Computer-Aided Drafting and Design Designer · Computer-Aided Drafting and Design Operator · Design Drafter · Distribution Designer · Electrical Computer-Aided Design and Drafting Technician (Electrical CADD Tech) · Electrical Computer-Aided Design Operator · Electrical Computer-Aided Drafting and Design Designer · Electrical Controls Designer · Electrical Design Technician · Electrical Distribution Designer · Electrical Systems Drafter · Electromechanical Design Drafter · Electromechanisms Design Drafter · Electronic Drafter · Engineering Agent · Equipment Services Associate (ESA) · IC Layout Designer (Integrated Circuit Layout Designer) · Instrumentation Designer · Line Staker · Mask Designer · Mask Layout Designer · Printed Circuit Board Drafter (PCB Drafter) · Printed Circuit Board Draftsman (PCB Draftsman) · Printed Circuit Board Layout Designer (PCB Layout Designer) · Printed Circuit Designer · Systems Designer · Test Fixture Designer