10 STEM Jobs

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Forensic Science Technician
Annual Salary*: $54,990

Alternative title: Criminalist

Duties: Find and collect evidence & necessary information at crime scenes, and in
laboratories perform chemical, biological, and physical analysis on evidence. Consult
toxicologists/odontologists if necessary; reconstruct crime scenes.
Chemist
Annual Salary: $57,272

Duties: Work with team/department to test company products/check for improvements.

Report test results and gather and store test result reports and any documents/files
regarding testing. Possibly retest/develop new products.
Astrophysicist
Annual Salary: $106,360

Duties: Conduct research on the origins and properties of astronomical entities using
observatory telescopes and collect and analyze data using physics and mathematics. Some
have additional responsibilities like teaching, overseeing Ph.D. candidates, writing grant
proposals, reviewing other scientist’s research, giving speeches, attending conferences,
managing departments, and scheduling times at telescopes.
Geologist
Annual Salary: $92,000

Duties: Study composition, structure, and other physical attributes of the earth, including
rocks and minerals. Use physics, math, and geological knowledge to explore for minerals,
gas, oil, underground water, etc. Petroleum geologists look for fuel in reservoirs and
sediments and must be able to interpret geophysical information in reports, conduct field
to analyze data, estimate fuel amounts, implement drilling strategies for the extraction of
fuel, and create post-project reports.
Aerospace Engineer
Annual Salary: $113,030

Duties: Direct and coordinate the design, manufacture, and testing of aircraft and
aerospace products, access proposals for projects to determine if they’re feasible and will
result in safe aircraft and parts, evaluate designs to see that products meet set engineering
principles, customer requirements, and environmental challenges, develop acceptable
criteria for design methods, quality standards, sustainment after delivery, and completion
dates and ensure products meet them, and inspect malfunctioning or damages products to
identify sources of problems and solutions.
Environmental Engineer
Annual Salary: $86,536

Duties: Prepare, review, and update environmental investigation reports, design projects
leading to environmental protection, such as water reclamation facilities, air pollution
control system, and operations that convert waste to energy, obtain, update, maintain
plans, permits, and standard operating procedures, provide tech support for environmental
remediation projects and legal actions, analyze scientific data and do quality-control
checks, monitor the progress of environmental improvement programs, inspect industrial
and municipal facilities and programs to ensure compliance with environmental
regulations, and advise corporations and government agencies about procedures for
cleaning up contaminated sites.
Data Scientist
Annual Salary: $123,000

Duties: Work with stakeholders throughout your organization to identify opportunities for
leveraging company data to drive business solutions, mine and analyze data from company
databases to drive optimization and improvement of product development, marketing
techniques and business strategies, assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data
sources and gathering techniques, develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to
sets, use predictive modeling to optimize customer experiences, revenue generation, ad
targeting, &c, develop company A/B testing framework and test model quality, coordinate
with different functional teams to implement models and monitor outcomes, and develop
processes and tools to monitor & analyze model performance and data accuracy.
Software Developer
Annual Salary: $83,406

Duties: Develop and implement new software programs, maintain and improve the
performance of existing software, clearly and regularly communicate with management
and technical support colleagues, design and update software databases, test and maintain
software products to ensure functionality and optimization, and recommend improvements
to existing software programs as necessary.
Anesthesiologist
Annual Salary: $352,518

Duties: Administer sedation or pain medications during surgical and other medical
procedures, supervise patients and monitor their pain medications before, during, and after
surgery to determine when they are stabilized enough to leave, offset adverse
complications, record amount and type of anesthesia as well as the patient’s conditions
throughout procedures, determine risk by taking medical histories, examining patients and
ordering diagnostic procedures, provide and sustain airway management and life support
during emergencies, manage anesthesiological services and coordinate to formulate
procedures and plans, direct duties of medical technicians, and educate patients and their
families on post-procedure care and possible complications.
Orthopedic Surgeon
Average Salary: $385,251

Duties: Diagnose and assess patients’ injuries or diseases through diagnostic testing,
sometimes cast and splint limbs, recommend rehabilitative exercises, prescribe
supplements and medications to strengthen joints or minimize pain, perform surgery to
repair injury, disease, or damage, plate broken bones, reattach tendons and ligaments,
perform joint or hit replacements, etc.
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*All annual salaries are averages