Writing a systems engineer resume

Everything below is counted from 2,008 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: 2,008
Employers: 455
Remote: 8%
Typical pay: $93k–219k
Verified live (7d): 1,858

What they ask for

Counted across 1,102 of the most recent 1,500 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

Python37%
The MathWorks MATLAB25%
Linux22%
Atlassian JIRA18%
C++17%
Microsoft Azure15%
Amazon Web Services14%
Confluence9%
Kubernetes9%
Agile9%
Microsoft PowerShell8%
Microsoft Excel8%
MathWorks Simulink8%
Scrum7%

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 Office191
Anduril Industries58
Kellogg Brown & Root (U.K.) Limited51
Booz Allen Hamilton_United States46
CACI, INC.-FEDERAL42
Parsons Technical Services, Inc.24
Sierra Nevada Corporation23
GD Information Technology, Inc.22
Applied Materials, Inc19
Sierra Space19
GE Vernova International LLC18
Cloudflare17

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