Writing a mechanical engineer resume

Everything below is counted from 2,243 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: 2,243
Employers: 584
Remote: 3%
Typical pay: $95k–198k
Verified live (7d): 2,037

What they ask for

Counted across 1,044 of the most recent 1,500 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

SolidWorks41%
Autodesk AutoCAD19%
Professional Engineer16%
Autodesk Revit14%
Microsoft Excel13%
IBM CATIA8%
LinkedIn8%
The MathWorks MATLAB7%
PTC Windchill6%
Python6%
Enterprise Resource Planning5%
Siemens NX5%
Siemens Teamcenter5%
Microsoft PowerPoint4%

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
Applied Materials, Inc66
Anduril Industries45
Blue Origin Personnel, LLC41
CRB39
Egis Group27
Weblee Technologies27
GE Vernova International LLC25
CORP-Corporate Office24
DLR Group20
Ramboll19
Intuitive18

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