Writing a systems engineer resume

Everything below is counted from 1,691 live systems 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: 1,691
Employers: 433
Remote: 8%
Typical pay: $95k–220k
Verified live (7d): 1,618

What they ask for

Counted across 1,093 of the most recent 1,500 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

Python40%
The MathWorks MATLAB26%
Linux23%
C++17%
Microsoft Azure16%
Atlassian JIRA16%
Amazon Web Services16%
Kubernetes11%
Confluence10%
Agile10%
Microsoft PowerShell9%
MathWorks Simulink9%
Microsoft Excel8%
Microsoft Active Directory7%

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

CORP-Corporate Office199
globalhr.wd5.rec_rtx_ext_gateway194
Anduril Industries54
Kellogg Brown & Root (U.K.) Limited41
Booz Allen Hamilton_United States38
The Boeing Company35
CACI, INC.-FEDERAL26
pae.wd1.amentum_careers21
Cloudflare18
Blue Origin Personnel, LLC17
Sierra Space16
GD Information Technology, Inc.16

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