What Mechanical Engineer job postings ask for
Cad appears in 51% of Mechanical Engineer job postings — the term employers name most often.
Counted across 110 Mechanical Engineer postings gathered from company career sites and seen in the last 90 days. Each percentage is the share of those postings naming the term at least once. Last verified ; re-checked every six hours.
Skills and tools, most-asked first
- Cad51% 56 of 110
- Fea38% 42 of 110
- Nx35% 38 of 110
- Solidworks31% 34 of 110
- Gd&t26% 29 of 110
- Python20% 22 of 110
- Teamcenter20% 22 of 110
- Matlab18% 20 of 110
- Ansys17% 19 of 110
- Siemens nx16% 18 of 110
- Machining15% 17 of 110
- Injection molding15% 16 of 110
- Sheet metal13% 14 of 110
- Structural analysis10% 11 of 110
- Cfd9% 10 of 110
- Creo9% 10 of 110
- Abaqus9% 10 of 110
- Plm7% 8 of 110
- Composites7% 8 of 110
- Welding7% 8 of 110
- 3d printing7% 8 of 110
- Dfm7% 8 of 110
- Thermal analysis6% 7 of 110
- 3d cad5% 6 of 110
- Cnc machining5% 6 of 110
Questions about this data
What skills do most Mechanical Engineer job postings ask for?
Across 110 Mechanical Engineer postings from the last 90 days, the most frequently named are Cad (51%), Fea (38%), Nx (35%). Each percentage is the share of those postings naming the term at least once.
How common is Siemens nx in Mechanical Engineer postings?
Siemens nx appears in 16% of the 110 Mechanical Engineer postings counted — 18 of them exactly. That places it mid-pack rather than near-universal, which is worth knowing before you rewrite a résumé around it.
Where does this Mechanical Engineer data come from?
Public job postings published by employers on their own career sites, collected through the official Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby job-board APIs. It is a count of 110 real postings seen in the last 90 days — not a survey, an estimate, or a model's guess.
Should I add these skills to my résumé?
Only the ones you genuinely have. Frequency tells you which terms to surface and phrase in the employer's own words if they are already true of you. Adding a skill you can't defend is the fastest way to fail an interview, so FreshStartr reports gaps rather than writing them in.
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Which of these does your résumé actually evidence?
Paste a Mechanical Engineer posting and you get a line-by-line match report: what you already prove, and what you don’t. Gaps are reported, never written in for you.
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