Engineering skill
Mechanical CAD jobs
Parametric 3D modelling of parts and assemblies for manufacture, with tolerances and fits. The product-engineering counterpart to building CAD. Below: the 5 occupations it unlocks on this board, live counts included, and the skills that show up beside it in real postings.
What Mechanical CAD unlocks
Occupations whose postings name this skill, from the adjacency data the instrument runs on. Counts are live board inventory, refreshed nightly.
| Occupation | Live roles | More |
|---|---|---|
| Architectural Drafter | 331 | salary |
| Mechanical Engineer | 304 | salary |
| Industrial Engineer | 156 | salary |
| Industrial Designer | 14 | salary |
| Design Technologist | 12 | , |
Named beside it
Co-occurrence measured over 28,628 postings: how often each skill appears in the same posting as Mechanical CAD.
- GD&Ttogether in 9
- Welding / Fabricationtogether in 12
- 3D Modelingtogether in 8
- FEA / Simulationtogether in 7
- AutoCADtogether in 4
- Prototypingtogether in 13
Quick answers
What is Mechanical CAD?
Parametric 3D modelling of parts and assemblies for manufacture, with tolerances and fits. The product-engineering counterpart to building CAD. On our board Mechanical CAD counts as a engineering skill, and we pull it straight from the text of live postings every night, so the numbers on this page are what employers are asking for right now. Every skill, defined in plain language: the glossary.
How many jobs ask for Mechanical CAD?
Quite a few. Right now 817 open roles on our board sit in the 5 occupations where Mechanical CAD shows up in postings. The biggest of those is Architectural Drafter, with 331 open roles today.
What skills pair with Mechanical CAD?
Measured over 28,628 postings, the skills most often named beside Mechanical CAD are GD&T (together in 9), Welding / Fabrication (together in 12), 3D Modeling (together in 8).
Skills are extracted from posting text by the nightly scrape and mapped to occupations through the same lexicon the career instrument uses. A skill page exists only while enough live roles are reachable through it; counts are inventory, never padding.