272 live roles · 20 fully remote · freshest first

Mechanical Engineer jobs

Live mechanical engineer openings from company career pages and remote boards. Apply at the source. What the role pays, across markets and seniority: mechanical engineer salary.

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What 272 postings say

Computed from the live board on the date of the nightly build · 54 added in the last 7 days · median listing is 25 days old.

Seniority	Live roles	State pay	Posted band
Entry	5	1	—
Untagged (mid)	175	71	$94k–$128k
Senior / lead	92	30	$89k–$183k

Seniority is read from posting titles; roles with no level in the title are counted as mid. Bands cover only postings that state pay, and only where five or more do.

Skills named most

Mechanical CAD22%
Prototyping20%
FEA / Simulation17%
GD&T14%
Revit13%
Project Management12%
Construction Administration9%
BIM9%

Share of postings naming each skill, from the posting text itself.

Hiring the most right now

Olsson11
Yellowshark9
Rocketlab6
Axon6
Naval Air Systems Command4
SpaceX4

Routes into mechanical engineer

The measured pivots that lead here, ranked by how much of the destination a typical origin profile already covers.

Industrial Designer → Mechanical Engineer48% readiness
Architect → Mechanical Engineer24% readiness

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Quick answers

How many mechanical engineer jobs are open right now?

Right now there are 272 mechanical engineer openings on our board, and 54 of them arrived in the last seven days. 20 of them are fully remote (remote mechanical engineer jobs). The board refreshes every night, so the count moves with the market.

How much do mechanical engineer jobs pay?

102 of the 272 openings state a salary. Across those, the middle half of posted pay runs from $93k to $139k a year. We only count postings that state pay, so this is what employers are advertising today, not an estimate. For the fuller picture by seniority and market, see the mechanical engineer salary page.

What skills do mechanical engineer postings ask for?

The three skills mechanical engineer postings name most often are Mechanical CAD (22% of postings), Prototyping (20%) and FEA / Simulation (17%). Those percentages are simply how many of the postings we read mention each one, so you can see which are near-universal and which are nice to have. Every skill, defined: the glossary.

Can I move into mechanical engineer work from an adjacent role?

Yes, and we can tell you from where. 2 measured routes lead into mechanical engineer work. The closest is from industrial designer: a typical industrial designer profile already covers 48% of what mechanical engineer postings ask for, and the route page lists the exact skills that make up the rest.

Listings backfilled from re-displayable sources (company career pages, remote-job boards, and public-sector postings), freshest first, refreshed with the nightly scrape. Each links out to apply at the original posting; PivotHop does not host applications. Salary shown where the posting states it.