Writing a electrical engineer resume

Everything below is counted from 1,920 live electrical 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: 1,920
Employers: 501
Remote: 6%
Typical pay: $94k–200k
Verified live (7d): 1,798

What they ask for

Counted across 1,037 of the most recent 1,500 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

Autodesk AutoCAD29%
Professional Engineer24%
Autodesk Revit21%
ETAP17%
Python14%
The MathWorks MATLAB10%
Altium Designer10%
C++10%
Microsoft Excel10%
LinkedIn7%
SolidWorks4%
Microsoft PowerPoint4%
MathWorks Simulink4%
Linux4%

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

AECOM234
globalhr.wd5.rec_rtx_ext_gateway88
Anduril Industries56
CORP-Corporate Office45
Ramboll41
Applied Materials, Inc33
Weblee Technologies32
slihrms.wd3.careers28
SpaceX26
Egis Group23
GE Vernova International LLC23
LEIDOS, INC.23

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