Writing a systems engineer resume

Everything below is counted from 1,111 live systems 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: 1,111
Employers: 301
Remote: 9%
Typical pay: $88k–218k
Verified live (7d): 848

What they ask for

Counted across 812 of the most recent 1,111 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

Python42%
The MathWorks MATLAB31%
Linux21%
C++20%
Atlassian JIRA18%
Microsoft Azure14%
Amazon Web Services13%
Confluence12%
Agile11%
Kubernetes10%
SAP10%
MathWorks Simulink9%
Oracle Java9%
Microsoft Excel8%

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_gateway190
Anduril Industries30
Kellogg Brown & Root (U.K.) Limited28
Leonardo UK Ltd22
LEIDOS, INC.21
The Boeing Company17
Booz Allen Hamilton_United States13
Helsing13
Cloudflare12
CACI, INC.-FEDERAL12
Parsons Technical Services, Inc.12

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