Writing a systems engineer resume

Everything below is counted from 1,609 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: 1,609
Employers: 419
Remote: 8%
Typical pay: $95k–220k
Verified live (7d): 1,473

What they ask for

Counted across 1,099 of the most recent 1,500 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

Python39%
The MathWorks MATLAB26%
Linux24%
C++18%
Microsoft Azure16%
Amazon Web Services15%
Atlassian JIRA15%
Kubernetes11%
Confluence10%
Agile10%
Microsoft PowerShell9%
MathWorks Simulink8%
Microsoft Excel8%
Microsoft Active Directory7%

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_gateway195
Anduril Industries54
Kellogg Brown & Root (U.K.) Limited39
Booz Allen Hamilton_United States39
LEIDOS, INC.38
The Boeing Company33
Leonardo UK Ltd32
CACI, INC.-FEDERAL25
Cloudflare18
Parsons Technical Services, Inc.17
pae.wd1.amentum_careers16

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