Writing a mechanical engineer resume

Everything below is counted from 1,998 live mechanical 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: 556
Remote: 4%
Typical pay: $95k–197k
Verified live (7d): 1,877

What they ask for

Counted across 1,073 of the most recent 1,500 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

SolidWorks40%
Autodesk AutoCAD21%
Autodesk Revit18%
Professional Engineer18%
Microsoft Excel10%
IBM CATIA10%
Python9%
The MathWorks MATLAB8%
Siemens Teamcenter7%
Siemens NX6%
LinkedIn6%
PTC Windchill5%
OSHA5%
Enterprise Resource Planning4%

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

AECOM159
SpaceX68
ASSYSTEM65
Applied Materials, Inc53
Anduril Industries43
CRB40
globalhr.wd5.rec_rtx_ext_gateway36
Blue Origin Personnel, LLC34
Weblee Technologies27
CORP-Corporate Office26
slihrms.wd3.careers25
LaBella Associates20

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