Writing a mechanical engineer resume

Everything below is counted from 1,917 live mechanical 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: 1,917
Employers: 541
Remote: 4%
Typical pay: $95k–198k
Verified live (7d): 1,817

What they ask for

Counted across 1,077 of the most recent 1,500 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

SolidWorks43%
Autodesk AutoCAD22%
Professional Engineer19%
Autodesk Revit18%
Microsoft Excel11%
Python8%
IBM CATIA7%
The MathWorks MATLAB7%
Siemens Teamcenter7%
PTC Windchill6%
LinkedIn6%
Siemens NX5%
OSHA4%
Enterprise Resource Planning4%

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

AECOM152
SpaceX67
ASSYSTEM64
Applied Materials, Inc45
Anduril Industries43
CRB40
globalhr.wd5.rec_rtx_ext_gateway36
Blue Origin Personnel, LLC32
Weblee Technologies27
CORP-Corporate Office26
slihrms.wd3.careers25
LaBella Associates20

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