Writing a mechanical engineer resume

Everything below is counted from 1,314 live mechanical engineer postings, 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: 1,314
Employers: 413
Remote: 5%
Typical pay: $93k–200k
Verified live (7d): 1,119

What they ask for

Counted across 934 of the most recent 1,314 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

SolidWorks37%
Autodesk AutoCAD22%
Autodesk Revit18%
Professional Engineer17%
Microsoft Excel11%
IBM CATIA9%
Siemens Teamcenter8%
Siemens NX8%
Python7%
LinkedIn7%
The MathWorks MATLAB7%
PTC Windchill6%
Apache Airflow5%
SAP4%

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

AECOM131
SpaceX59
ASSYSTEM48
globalhr.wd5.rec_rtx_ext_gateway34
Anduril Industries28
Applied Materials, Inc27
Weblee Technologies27
CORP-Corporate Office26
CRB21
Blue Origin Personnel, LLC19
LaBella Associates17
slihrms.wd3.careers15

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