Writing a electrical engineer resume

Everything below is counted from 1,998 live electrical engineerpostings, taken from employers’ own career pages rather than a job board. Nothing here is advice about what usually works. It is what these specific postings say.

Open roles: 1,998
Employers: 515
Remote: 6%
Typical pay: $93k–200k
Verified live (7d): 1,884

What they ask for

Counted across 1,057 of the most recent 1,500 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

Autodesk AutoCAD27%
Professional Engineer25%
Autodesk Revit21%
ETAP18%
Python16%
The MathWorks MATLAB12%
C++10%
Altium Designer9%
Microsoft Excel8%
LinkedIn7%
Linux5%
Microsoft PowerPoint4%
SolidWorks4%
Atlassian JIRA4%

This is a floor, not a ceiling: the reader behind it only counts terms it recognises, so a skill missing here means it was not matched, not that nobody wants it. Put what you actually have on the page.

Who is hiring right now

AECOM236
globalhr.wd5.rec_rtx_ext_gateway88
Anduril Industries56
CORP-Corporate Office45
Ramboll42
Applied Materials, Inc36
Weblee Technologies32
slihrms.wd3.careers32
SpaceX27
Egis Group25
CRB23
Axon20

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