Engineering skill
GD&T jobs
Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing, the symbolic language that specifies allowable variation on manufactured parts. Standard on mechanical drawings, and the boundary marker between building CAD and product engineering. Below: the 6 occupations it unlocks on this board, live counts included, and the skills that show up beside it in real postings.
What GD&T 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineer | 370 | salary |
| Industrial Engineer | 140 | salary |
| Quality Inspector | 123 | , |
| Manufacturing Engineer | 89 | , |
| Aerospace Engineer | 85 | salary |
| Hardware Engineer | 70 | salary |
Named beside it
Co-occurrence measured over 28,628 postings: how often each skill appears in the same posting as GD&T.
- Mechanical CADtogether in 9
- Welding / Fabricationtogether in 8
- 3D Modelingtogether in 5
- Prototypingtogether in 11
Quick answers
What is GD&T?
Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing, the symbolic language that specifies allowable variation on manufactured parts. Standard on mechanical drawings, and the boundary marker between building CAD and product engineering. On our board GD&T 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 GD&T?
Quite a few. Right now 877 open roles on our board sit in the 6 occupations where GD&T shows up in postings. The biggest of those is Mechanical Engineer, with 370 open roles today.
What skills pair with GD&T?
Measured over 28,628 postings, the skills most often named beside GD&T are Mechanical CAD (together in 9), Welding / Fabrication (together in 8), 3D Modeling (together in 5).
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.