Mechanical Engineers

r/MechanicalEngineering4538 upvotes

How do engineers go from the left to the right?

I’m a mechanical engineer but work as a project engineer for the federal government so my technical skills compared to engineers in the private industry are low. I’ve never had the opportunity to be apart of an industry design team that is innovative and refines a product as this (i was in college but not in a professional setting). Are sections of this product broken up into several teams and those teams design a very specific part? Do engineers spend countless hours on google researching parts? What sort of engineering questions are asked? Is there software that helps? Sorry for all the questions. I yearn for something more technical and wish I could be a part of a very technical team.

r/MechanicalEngineering3774 upvotes

Photoelasticity- how engineers “saw” stress in the 70’s

Photoelasticity (often called photostress) was the go-to way to “see” stress in transparent parts from about the 1940s to the 1980s. Engineers coated or made models from special plastics, then viewed them under polarized light—stress showed up as colorful fringe patterns, making high-stress areas easy to spot. Before that, stress was measured with mechanical strain gauges or calculated by hand. Today, it’s mostly replaced by digital strain gauges and finite element analysis (FEA), which give faster, more precise results without physical models.

r/engineering2309 upvotes

Young Engineers: do not trust AI at its word.

This week, I was designing a safety gate for a piece of equipment which can surely kill someone. I’m not well educated on guarding standards and we currently don’t have a person internal to the company who is an expert. I plugged the information into ChatGPT and asked it to provide the standards for height, clearances, etc. It did a deep dive, provided tables and citations, etc. It was extremely convincing. The problem? The numbers didn’t pass the gut check. I did a deeper dive, which took a few hours identifying ANSI standards and finding the correct information. Turns out, what ChatGPT recommended would have been against ANSI standards and extremely dangerous. While it was clear in my circumstance, I’m sure there’s a lot of grey-er areas where it sounds convincing. When it comes to Engineering, stick to your fundamentals. Don’t take AI’s information at face value. It can literally kill someone, significantly damage your company’s reputation, significantly hurt your career, etc. Edit: wow this blew up, and I’m getting tons of comments with criticism over even considering AI in the first place. To add more detail, I decided to give AI a spin before researching the ANSI standards for gating (which is where a “responsible” engineer would look for direction). There’s an insane amount of hype towards using AI in industry, and a lot of skepticism. This is a message of warning because, let’s say I was new and didn’t know enough to look up ANSI standards? It would be disastrous.

r/MechanicalEngineering1357 upvotes

Engineering school doesn't teach design for manufacturability nearly enough

I'm doing my senior design project at the moment. Up until now, for any design projects, everyone has been able to get away with 3D-printing things and machining a few components at best, as these projects are small and are not for commercial or industrial use. My design project has an industry sponsor which intends to use our work as a baseline for an actual product they are making, and oh man, is the reality of engineering beginning to set in. It is only *now* that I've started to see how much thought and planning needs to go into even the tiniest components and parts. You can't just make stuff in Solidworks or Fusion anymore. You have to think about exactly how it will be manufactured, how much it will cost, etc. When it is an actual product you are making, you have to be hyper vigilant about everything. Every small edit in CAD makes me feel nervous now. Not every manufacturing contractor will necessarily have the same tools or do the same types of operations.

r/MechanicalEngineering1130 upvotes

Finally landed my first engineering job after graduating ~4 years ago!

Stay vigilant for anyone job hunting! Just takes one opportunity to work for you! I was a professional athlete from 2021 to now and decided to begin my engineering career after my contract finished. I had 0 internship experience due to Covid happening during the end of my college years. I was banking on having my EIT and being an honors grad with good nonacademic involvement to help my case. My best advice is to be personable, humble, and diligent and the right company will take a ‘risk’ on you. I applied actively for about 3/4 months until I was able to land a few interviews and things started opening up. Good luck to anyone else that’s in my shoes! Just keep working hard, opportunities will come to you! Just very happy and excited to start a new career and figured I’d share my journey as a piece of optimism.

r/MechanicalEngineering1022 upvotes

Would you rather design this tiny fuel door of a B2 or lead the entire design of a consumer product?

Serious question for y’all: Would you prefer being responsible for one tiny part in an iconic, massive project- like designing this rotating latch of the B-2’s fuel door? Or would you rather lead the entire mechanical design of a smaller product—say, a smart water bottle or a robotic toy? Be honest: what’s more fulfilling for you? Big mission, small part—or full control, smaller scale, full responsibility

r/MechanicalEngineering1009 upvotes

I scraped 4,450 ME jobs from corporate websites

I realized a lot of jobs in corporate websites aren't available on Indeed / LinkedIn so I wrote a script that fetches jobs from over 30k company websites' career pages and uses ChatGPT to extract relevant information (ex salary) from job descriptions. [Here's](https://hiring.cafe/?searchState=%7B%22searchQuery%22%3A%22%5C%22mechanical+engineer%5C%22%22%2C%22dateFetchedPastNDays%22%3A-1%7D) a filter for Mechanical Engineering roles. Hope this tool is useful! Please lmk how I can improve it. You can follow my progress on r/hiringcafe

r/MechanicalEngineering1005 upvotes

SpaceX just asked me for my SAT score

Basically the title. I'm interviewing for SpaceX and the recruiter just asked me for my SAT/ACT score. I have a masters degree and 2 years of experience in the launch vehicle industry. Why does this matter in the slightest? I don't remember my score.. lol.

r/engineering990 upvotes

My grandpa was a coke oven engineer, and I've transcribed his final invention from hospice

20 years ago, in the last few months of his life, my grandpa became consumed with this idea of a plasma-heated coke oven. He was a coke oven engineer for decades and had several patents. But as a non-engineer, I'm curious what /r/engineering has to say about this. Is it interesting and coherent? Have these ideas been adopted? Are they no longer relevant? Would it do the world good? Regardless, I'm sure he would want to see it shared! Here's a carefully made transcript from about 30 minutes of recording. "Well, anyhow, the thing about how you're gonna to zap this: if we use the Westinghouse units, which are small, I figured that each unit would do about 4 cubic feet of coal. I think when you zap it, they have some kind of a bayonet or something goes down with this gas. And I figure you'd have one of those for each cubic foot. Now I'm guessing at that, but I think that's within the reasonable range of what you could do. So if you have 24 feet of coal slug moving down this system, and you move it two-foot-a-clip—every time you move it you move it two feet, you're actually moving 48 cubic feet, down this slot oven. You have to get into the construction, a little bit, of this thing, because to build a refractory slot vertically, to put a lid on it is not much of a problem. You put a little arch over, you got 18 inches to span. Now you lay it down, you've got 24 feet to span, this way. And depending on how far you go, hundreds of feet that way to span. So you have to use a construction called a flat arch. The flat arch is a refractory arch that is supported on the exterior with metal. There's two designs that I'm familiar with: one's the American Arch, that uses round pipe as a supporting structure, and the other one is the Dietrich Arch, which uses cast iron casting support. Either one of them would work; the American would probably be easier to design. In order to support that, the top of this oven would to have a support system, so that the first four feet or so is up where you're doin' the charging and have the pistons and all. Of course, that would all be structural steel, and you wouldn't have to support anything. And then when it gets to about six feet, then the refractory would start. When the refractory starts, then you have to support it. So, I figured the way this would be designed is, going down you'd have six feet of the initial structure, then you could have two feet of trusswork strength that went across—would be two foot wide and 24 feet or more that way, and it would completely span the unit. Then you'd have a space of six feet, you'd have another structure like that, two foot wide, and so forth. All the way down the line, every six feet you'd have this structure. To visualize it, it'd be like a little bridge across it, except it would be designed in such a way that could hold it. And then the whole area in the middle would have structural beams, or so forth, running from that two foot wide girder type unit over to the next one. And they would be just a few inches above the top of the refractory roof, so that the brick layer, when you put that refractory in, would hang it up and then you would be right there standing on it. And then you have removable grill work on the walkway. Now the first area you had of that, the first six foot wide area, you'd take the first two foot in the corner, and you'd equip that with a refractory sliding block that slid across the top, and have it powered with air cylinders so that it could be automatically backed off. And that would expose the coal cake, two foot of it—12 inches this way, 24 inches that way—right at that point. Then over on the other side of the six foot draw, it would go up a foot. So, in the first section you'd have two holes, two foot by one foot in the top of the refractory, which you could live with. And they would have removable doors and you would mount these bayonets or whatever they call them, the plasma units, right above them. And the unit for the plasma thing would be just up the, that same six foot area, a short distance, and could be hung on the structural steel, or however you wanted to support it. It wouldn't take much room; it looked like the size of a refrigerator. Now you do that at one end of the 24 inch thing, and over at the other end you do the same thing. Now, that meant in the first six feet you would have eight square feet exposed. So, now you'd have the next two up the line, and the next two up this line. So that in a matter of about six of these units, you would eventually get where you had the whole business covered. So as this coal would be bein' pushed down, this part here would up the temperature, and, of course, as it moved, the next zap would hit the piece behind it. So there would be a piece there, and then a piece up here would be goin'. And on this end of the 24 feet, you would have what they call a 'collecting main,' which is common practice in the slot-baked ovens now. At the end, they have a main that goes along, and they have what they call goose neck connections. They come up out of the refractory—they're lined with masonry—and they go into this collector main. And the collector main is under suction, and it's full of water—sprays, or liquor sprays as they turn out to be. And that's what cools the gases as they're generated. And it's drawing the gas out of this unit. And, of course, these first two at this end, when you're doin it, there's nothing hot coming over the top of it—that's nothing but raw coal above them. And over here the same way. And that's true right up to the middle one. Now, you have a collecting main on both ends, so you're pulling, really, suction on 12 feet of em. 'Cause you have it not really blocked in the middle, but you have it so there's not much clearance. And, so anyhow, when you finally get down here about 40 feet, you've got it all red hot, and it's gone. And then, every so often from then on, you have resistant bars—like they have in a toaster—that would be fed with electricity. It would be red hot. It would be in the base of the slot. So that any temperature that was lost through the evolution of gas, or radiation, or conduction, or for whatever reason, would be regenerated by these... I don't know what you would call them... resisting units, that would be tied into your high voltage units over here. And they'd also act as dampeners, because when you kept switching these things off over here, you don't want to slam a million volts and stop it right now; you would instead use a dump switch where it wouldn't be stopped, it would just be diverted into these dampening things. And then through it was used next to heat the coal. Now, we've got that all, and I, we figure that that would be countin' the first six feet and the rest of you would have 36... you'd have somethin' like 42 feet, maybe. Tthat area would be what we'd call a Preheating Area. All you were doing was heating the coal charge to get it up to around 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, that's all we need—maybe a little bit more, a little bit less. We don't have to fuse it when you get it up there. So the whole unit wouldn't have to be as strong as most units of this type would be. So, now that only takes 42 feet. But we still have all this structure goin' down here—we have 120 more feet. And the reason we have that is, we found from carbonizin' the coal it takes usually in a typical slot-type oven, they call it 'an inch an hour'—so, if you have an oven 18 inches wide, it takes 18 hours to cook it. But, of course, that's based on the fact of startin' from ambient temperature and heating it up—when you dump the coal in, you dump it in by the ambient temperature. Well, with this setup, you zap it and you're at a workin' temperature of 2000° right away. So I don't think you'll need an inch an hour—in fact, I know from experience you'd probably get by with half that much. So we have only a a 12 inch thick slab and if we decide we could heat it in six hours, then since we're movin' this unit down two foot every six minutes, in an hour we move at 20 feet. And so to get a dwell time of six hours, you need 120 ft. So, after this charging area, 42 feet, you'd have 120 more feet of this flat arch business, some strip heaters buried in the floor... and by the time it got through there it, should be completely devolatilized and completely carbonized. But now, it's a red hot mass—the same as it would be in a slot-type oven. On a slot-type oven, they open the door and take this pushing machine and push out all this flaming red hot coal—coke—into a car that catches it, a railroad car. And then, after they catch it—we're talkin' on a typical oven about 50 feet of that and 20 some feet high, 18 inches wide—then they run that up under a Quenching Tower, and then they dump tons of water on it. And that's what you see in these Coke Plants, where you see these tremendous clouds. And if you you're down in Indianapolis some days, you look to the southeast and every so often you see this tremendous cloud go up, that's a Quench Cloud. All that heat is wasted. So with this system, you're in a position to much easier recover the heat and cool it down scientifically without quenching it. So, you would turn that over to a boiler company and they would have the next 40 feet where this stuff would be going through there at 20 foot an hour. And they would extract the heat from it and make steam. Then when it come out of the end of that, it would be hot, but you would be able to handle it on rubber conveyor belts and whatnot. It would come out, get on conveyor belts and go to storage, and be screened and sorted later. And it would be built sort of like a boiler, and this red hot coke would be running over these tubes that would be full of—you wouldn't use water in them, you'd use Dowtherm, which is a salt solution that can get awfully hot without vaporizing. And so the first two cooling areas that this coke would get in would have tubes of Dowtherm—or similar, there's other chemical—and then they would cool it down. And then the next area would have tubes with water in 'em. Now, then they'd have a Dowtherm boiler, and the Dowtherm converts water to steam. And this whole unit end result would be would makin' steam that would go someplace and make electricity, hopefully. And then your coke would be cool enough to handle, which is all you were after. Now, the other big source of energy that you're getting is all this gas! That would be handled just as it is now in the modern byproduct gas plant off of coke ovens. So they strip all the goodies out of the gas and then instead of burning it in the unit, they would burn it to make electricity. Because you used electricity up in the initial step and now you're getting sources of electricity. It would power itself. And the byproducts would be the same as they are in a modern coke oven—you still make all the tar and chemicals and things that they do now! That's where the tar for your roof comes, most of it's coal tar. And your highways: what isn't asphalt is coal tar! And they use the coal tar to mix with the asphalt. Makes the asphalt easier to handle, I guess. And that's a problem today, because these companies don't have a source for their tar! They have to go to China or something, because the coke industry has dropped considerably from when it was at its height right after the World War, after I come back from the Army. But then it started goin' downhill. It's still a big industry in this country, despite all the beating it's taken. But everybody else are in the business now—their governments are more friendly about pollution than our government is. I didn't mention the plasma stream is a gas stream, and in order to make it, the easiest way, you use natural gas—which has been used before for the plasma ionized stream, is what they call it. And they use the natural gas. Now in this case, the beauty of it is that, since the ionized beam hits the coal within the chamber, within the oven itself, the gas that comes in with the plasma ray goes into the effluent product of the coal and ends up in the byproduct plant. And it's cleaned up and then it's part of the coke oven gas! So it's all recovered. Where in most cases, like where they use this plasma heating for heating steel and stuff, that's all wasted—it goes into the air. But in this case, it's recovered. And now, that just one of these units. And say, well, and of course we got no labor involved! All we have is couple fellas sitting up with a pulpit running and looking at a bunch of instruments and timers and things like that are taking care of—the automation as this thing goes through. Because once it's set it, nobody has to do anything, it just goes. And but now that would, you got 24, say, roughly for figuring sake. You had 24 cubic feet of coal and you move two feet of it every six minutes: in an hour, you'd move 480 cubic feet out of this one oven. And at a conservative rate, the coke would weigh 30lbs. The other thing that's very important about this is the materials of construction! The refractory has to be fused silica, which is an expensive refractory, but it has some properties that are essential—for one thing, it is a insulating refractory rather than a conducting refractory and where in a standard coke oven you want to conduct the heat from the gas to the coal, in this process you want to retain the heat in the oven and not lose it through the wall. And fused silica is a very good insulator. It also is very hard and would be resistant to the mechanical abrasion that would come with this type of a utilization. It would also have good structural strength. They also make it in castable, so that the ceiling or flat arch type construction in the oven could be castable fused silica. Regular silica refractory, like we'd use in a modern coke oven, has very high expansion coefficient. So it expands very high durin' heat and if you cool it down, it cools down in such a way that it's almost impossible to heat it up and cool it down without fracturing the refractory. So in the case of fused silica, the coefficient of expansion is practically nil. So you don't have the problems of expanding refractories, and you can cool the unit down or heat it up! And one of the things I hadn't mentioned when I showed the dual feeding system, you could either feed coke in, and if you set the levers right, you could feed 100% coke, or you could feed it in fractions depending on where you put the slide gates. And if you have a shutdown for whatever reason—if a major strike or major catastrophe or a major loss of base product or something, that you had to shut the unit down and in a hurry you might have to shut it down, without sufficient help and so forth... you could, once you set the gates and so forth, you could start filling the unit with coke and then at the end of a day's time you would have the complete unit shut down, full of coke! And it would be safe that way, because of the fact that the fused silica did not crack up on ya'. Well, you could never do that with a modern slot-type coke oven. Once you start those, you have to continue running them. This, I think, would be a good feature for modern industry, to have a unit that could be started up and shut down with such ease. And it would not take a big crew to do it—it just could take the normal operating crew, and they could shut it down without getting their hands dirty, except for movin' a few slide valves that might not have been automated." If you've made it this far, thanks for reading!

r/engineering971 upvotes

Why do people in the UK not know what engineering is?

After accepting that software development jobs are impossible to get now, I have recently been looking into engineering jobs and qualifications to see whether it's actually possible to get into the field (I am not asking for career advice), and my first observation is that nobody seems to know what engineering is. People think engineering means things like operating machines in a factory, installing equipment on a building, performing maintenance and repairs, assembling things, etc. Any time I have tried to look for engineering jobs, these are the only things that come up. Well, these, and even less engineering-related things like "sales engineer", "tech support engineer", etc. A while ago I had an appointment with the national careers service, who are supposed to provide career advice, guidance, etc. and they didn't know what engineering was either. I asked about engineering, and just got information about welding, forklift driving, and machine operating. There's an organisation near me that supposedly provides engineer training, but even they don't seem to know what engineering is. All the courses on their website are things like forklift driving, welding, machine operating, factory safety, power tool usage etc. and there's no actual engineering anywhere. Why is it like this? Is this just a UK thing or is it like this in the US and other places too?

r/MechanicalEngineering907 upvotes

5 month job search after lay off

Recorded every job app (not including LinkedIn easy apply) over after my company went under in June. I have seen these posts over the years and wanted to record my data to help others understand the current job market. Happy to answer any questions about what worked and what didn’t work. About me: - Engineer with 4 years experience and 1 year managerial experience - Job I accepted was from a referral, but the other offer was no referral Tools I utilized during unemployment: - Unemployment benefits - Medicaid - LinkedIn/indeed, daily job search’s with 3-5 job title searches - No AI

r/MechanicalEngineering875 upvotes

Is it just me or did college not prepare you at all for “actual” engineering

I just graduated in May and have been working at a manufacturing plant as a process engineer for 6 months. Every time I’m with my boss out in the plant, he’s showing me all the different types of pumps, valves, mechanical seals, steam traps, etc. I am utterly shocked that in 4 years of engineering school, I haven’t learned about any of these pieces of equipment whatsoever. I understand that engineers have to learn the theory behind everything, but I mean come on, you couldn’t have offered one class about basic engineering-related machinery?

r/MechanicalEngineering630 upvotes

Is anyone else terrified for the future of our profession?

I visited my undergraduate college last week, and spoke with the assistant dean. They told me that this year's graduating class is 3 times bigger than mine was in 2018. This is the first batch of new engineers since AI decimated software engineering. I keep seeing generic advice online that says: "go into engineering." It has become the new "learn to code." When I graduated, "entry-level" engineer positions were already sun-setting. There are no jobs for all of these graduates. Long term, a huge amount of engineers are going to anchor down salaries for everyone else. I'm not worried about AI replacing my skills, I worried about all these new engineers devaluing my skills.

r/MechanicalEngineering581 upvotes

PSA: Fuck Manufacturing

Vent post. Fuck manufacturing and fuck mechanical engineering. I’m 4.5 fucking years into my career and still in a bullshit entry level position making a couple thousand a year more than the new hires while doing the same amount of work as the mid and senior level engineers. My manager has zero interest in helping my advance my career. And on top of that I have to drive over an hour each way to my job. I’m done with this bullshit. If you need me I’ll be applying to jobs all weekend.

r/MechanicalEngineering552 upvotes

Anyone else feel uncomfortable/patronized when people compliment how smart you are for being an engineer?

I guess it speaks to my upbringing, but choosing a career like engineer was nothing out of the ordinary for me. My dad was a computer scientist. So it went completely unremarked when I got my degree. Like good job graduating, now you can get a good job. Completely normal within my family and circle of friends from college. But my neighbors and in laws are being weird about it. They're always complimenting how smart I am and how I can fix anything. I can't fix anything, I just know how to use Google. It feels weird to me that certain people put me on a pedestal for my choice of career. Like to me it feels like anyone can do this if they just take the appropriate classes and gain the relevant experience, it's not like monumentally difficult or out of the ordinary.

r/MechanicalEngineering523 upvotes

Is this real? What the heck happened to Mechanical Engineering in the last 10 or so years?

I saw this on the salary subreddit, there's no way today's grads are averaging $85,000-$90,000 out of school, yet supposedly that's the inflation adjusted averaged from the 00s and early 10s? No wonder older engineers can't relate to us younger ones.

r/MechanicalEngineering499 upvotes

How do US companies afford to pay mechanical engineers 8k to 10k a month?

I’m in Southeast Asia running a small precision design and manufacturing company focused on optics. We do everything in house from design to machining to assembly. Here, a fresh graduate mechanical engineer makes about 600 to 800 dollars a month. At a top national company maybe 1,400. I hire new design engineers at around 750 dollars a month, which is roughly 9,000 dollars a year. That’s basically the same as just one month of a US engineer salary at 8k to 10k. I honestly can’t figure out how that’s possible. It’s not that we want to underpay people, it’s simply not realistic here. And other positions like machinists or CAM programmers are also paid very high salaries in the US, not just design engineers. If I tried to pay US level salaries my payroll alone would be close to 40,000 dollars a month. Even if we priced our products the same as in the US, for example 5,000 dollars each, we can realistically produce about 5 pieces a month. That’s 25,000 dollars in revenue, which doesn’t even cover payroll, let alone overhead and profit. On top of that, around 98 percent of our customers are already based in the US, so it is not a matter of charging a different market. So how do US companies actually manage this? Is it only because of the size of the market, higher pricing power, or something else in the economics that I’m missing? I’d really love to hear from engineers or managers in the US about how your companies make the numbers work.

r/MechanicalEngineering455 upvotes

Warning about recruiters

I'm not in the market for a job right now but I always leave my LinkedIn profile showing open to opportunities just in case something comes along. I have over 20 years experience in one industry, I hold 4 patents, and my current job title is Senior Design Engineer. As a result I get 2 or 3 messages a week for Senior engineer or engineering management roles but the pay is criminally low. The average salary for my title/yoe/industry/area is $118k with a range between $105k-$130k (this is based on multiple sources and it's in line with everyone I know in my industry). In the past I have been contacted about similar jobs with a similar range. Lately, every recruiter that contacts me is offering $70k-95k and saying the job market is bad so they can't offer more. Don't talk to these fools because they are using the job market to take a big cut of your salary. I've been calling out every one of them for not even coming close to the low end of the salary range. If you are interested in the job, play along long enough to figure out who the company is and then go apply directly to their HR department. Screw every one of these ass hats trying to take advantage of us.

r/MechanicalEngineering361 upvotes

Mechanical Engineering is still a great major! & It has changed my life.

I (27M) just wanted to make an appreciation post for mechanical engineering because honestly this degree changed my life. I graduated from school in 2021 making 82k base salary in the chemical industry in Houston. By 2024, I was making 120k in the chemical industry, and this was not at one of the highest paying companies in the industry. I have recently switched to a contractor role and now I’m bringing in over 200k. My current pay is mostly due to having connections, but the previous salaries are most definitely attainable through hard work and being a good team player. To me the key to success is finding the booming/stable industry, being someone that is curious and willing to learn. I feel like I automatically gain people’s respect whenever I tell them I am an engineer because they’ve heard of how difficult school can be. I hope current students are not discouraged by some of the post you see on Reddit because you can definitely make a lot of money and go far with a mechanical engineering degree. Just be flexible and willing to learn!

r/MechanicalEngineering311 upvotes

“Western Executives are visiting China and coming back terrified”; does manufacturing (and by extension, much of the ME work many of us do) have any future in the West?

Article link: https://web.archive.org/web/20251012144950/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/10/12/why-western-executives-visit-china-coming-back-terrified/ I work in manufacturing as a Mech E here in the US, we don’t do military/defense work. Frankly I worry about my job security, I don’t see any world where what I do doesn’t get eaten by the superior manufacturing (and increasingly superior engineering) abilities in China. It’s not low quality, Chinese stuff is very very good. And anyone worth their salt in engineering knows on some level that being on site, at least at the start of you career, and being fully immersed in the product you are designing is the best way to get good at it. The idea that we’ll all be fine if things are designed in the US but manufactured elsewhere seems a bit naive to me. I’m curious for your guys’ thoughts. In the past I’ve read a lot of myopic takes about this (“well, my job is secure so I don’t care!”), I’m curious if any of you are also feeling the pressure from China.

r/engineering303 upvotes

Looking to create a trapdoor style stair cover.

Hello all! Looking for advice and suggestions for how to create a cover for the hole around the spiral staircase which leads to the upstairs owners suite of the house. The house is shared and the room the stairs lead to is the living room adjacent to the master bedroom which is directly above the living room where others like to watch movies so we are looking to build something that would also aid in soundproofing the rooms from each other. The owner is an engineer who claims to be too broke to pay for something elaborate but believes the only reasonable idea is to build a large box over the whole thing with a door. Pictures 4 and 5 are my current simpleton idea which would be to attach a piece of plywood via hinges to the floor which would lay flat with the left corner being supported by being on the floor by the red flag seen in picture 3. Picture 4 displays how it would be when it fully covers the hole. The right side would be a second piece of plywood, cut to fit the curve of the stairs and hinged so it can be folded back onto the other piece and lifted to open. My idea would be to have a hook or clasp on the upper railing by the desk which would connect to a handle on the plywood so it could be safely locked in the upright position. The bottom side would then be covered with sound deadening panels to reduce the noise between rooms and to give privacy to the upstairs room. I think my idea could be accomplished for under $150 and would be simple, economical and effective while still looking good if done with a touch of creativity. But I am open to and hoping for critiques, enhancements or completely new ideas altogether.

r/MechanicalEngineering296 upvotes

Finally doubled my initial salary!

I'm just excited about it and wanted to share with people in my field. My first job out of college in 2018, in oil & gas, I was making $58k. I shifted over to the nuclear energy industry in 2019 at a utility and am now at a vendor. I just got my annual merit raise, which pushes me just over $116k. All before I'm 30 which feels like a major accomplishment. Obviously not gonna stop grinding and climbing the financial ladder, but this is a milestone I've been eyeing for a few years now. While the merit wasn't huge, pushing me over this threshold makes it feel so much cooler. Ok, I'm done putting my own back now. Cheers!

r/MechanicalEngineering294 upvotes

Job Search after getting laid off

I got laid off in September 2024 from a job that underpaid and under appreciated me and I hated my boss. It sucked. 6 months later I’ve accepted a position that isn’t 100% what I want to do for my career but it’s something I don’t hate doing for now while I passively look for the right job. Got lucky cuz my unemployment payments were about to run out in a couple weeks😮‍💨

r/MechanicalEngineering285 upvotes

Is this a joke?

Please ignore the poor formatting, just had a quick look at jobs and stumbled across a couple with this sort of salary range, the bottom of the salary range is below minimum wage for a degree and a years experience. I have blocked the company name and personal details.

r/MechanicalEngineering283 upvotes

A spreadsheet breaking down nearly every mechanical engineering career —ranked by salary (median, 90th percentile, top reported), job stability, and what the work is actually like day-to-day.

A friend sent me this spreadsheet, and I think this subreddit would love it, considering how much we talk about different MechEngr career paths: [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15ObUrXzYe6f7m\_yGi1RoMcI\_u2-siXVa-H8z\_mxsvcA/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15ObUrXzYe6f7m_yGi1RoMcI_u2-siXVa-H8z_mxsvcA/edit?usp=sharing)

r/MechanicalEngineering268 upvotes

2025 Mechanical Engineer Salary Survey

Happy New Year everyone! I hope that everyone is able to enjoy the 1st weekend of the year. I would like to request as many people participate in the updated ME salary survey. Based on the last salary survey post I have implemented the following suggestions: 1. Added question regarding # of jobs to see how much is the effect of job hopping. 2. Added country, so now it will be open to every Redditor in the world. 3. Added a question where it gives you a cost of living (COL) index making it easier for me to normalize the salary. Here is the survey link: [https://forms.gle/WJFwEhryLQEr6So29](https://forms.gle/WJFwEhryLQEr6So29) Here is the link the previous [ME 2024 Salary Survey Post](https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalEngineering/comments/1dhmln3/2024_mechanical_engineering_salary_survey_results/) and here is the 2024 raw data [link](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1X9fk_d2e6GmOZ16jHuDin5MixPKv8453Qly9ZIj2N7w/edit?usp=sharing) I will leave the survey open for about \~3 weeks before I will organize the data and aim to release the insights within 2 weeks. The part 1 US results have been posted: [https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalEngineering/comments/1iaotlm/2025\_mechanical\_engineer\_survey\_results\_part\_i\_us/](https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalEngineering/comments/1iaotlm/2025_mechanical_engineer_survey_results_part_i_us/) Alright, part 1 has been done (US Only) next weekend is International section

r/MechanicalEngineering262 upvotes

3 Month Job Search - New ME Grad with M.S. and ~3 Years of Internship Experience

Got an offer last week for \~$80,000 base salary in the midwest. Happy to share my anonymized resume if anyone would find it useful. Applied to everything through [hiring.cafe](http://hiring.cafe), big thanks to u/alimir1

r/MechanicalEngineering260 upvotes

2025 Mechanical Engineer Survey Results Part I: US Only (Part 2: will be international)

Hello everyone, sorry for the delay. I've been busy on vacation and was slowly organizing the data. I will run through the entire methodology and include all filtered and raw data as well in the links afterwards. I will also give a quick TDLR at the end for those that do not want to read the entire thing, since there will be lots of graphs and etc. The international one will be next weekend, since I have to adjust for currency and much harder to figure out some of the other things like pension or 401k. This took over 6 hours to filter and write. **Methodology:** There was a lot of filtering involved. For many of the trend lines, I assumed a linear regression and filtered many of the outliers. This was because they would overly skew the data to one side or not. Feel free to use the data to edit them yourself, but it did take awhile. Let's go through the main adjustments for cost of living (COL). 1. Numbeo used NYC as 100, which of course skews every number high. Therefore, after looking through many different websites, I used the average adjustment of NYC (which in Numbeo is 100) is 35% higher than the US median. This means that I basically just divided the COL number by 65, which means if you are higher than median, the salary will adjustment up. For instance, if the COL was 95 for SF, then 95/65 = 1.46, and a 100k salary/1.46 =68.5k 2. 401K also had many issues. There was a variety of numbers and specific cases, so I just assumed pension was 5% if no number given, many of the 1-10 I assumed 1%-10%, 0.5 I assumed was 50% and etc. Maybe they were wrong, but some of the data were taken out, since they were outliers and the goal was to find a general trend line for correlations with data. 3. Bonus was also the same, some bonuses were insanely high 500k+ for lower base salary (200K), so I took those out to more center the data. **Results:** **Section 1**: Let's go with the base salary results with no adjustments. note: w/ just means with, w/o is just withoutHere are the findings based on the trend-line:Here are the findings based on the trend-line: https://preview.redd.it/3cem9qreuefe1.png?width=719&format=png&auto=webp&s=7a3fafbc94357fa06890c9f3625c86b2aaba4773 Entry (0-1 YOE) = 83k/yr Experienced (3-5 YOE -> using 4) = 100k/yr Mid-level (7-10 YOE-> using 8.5) = 120k/yr Senior/Advanced (10-15 YOE-> using 12.5) = 136.7k/yr Principal (15-20 YOE -> 17.5) = 158.2k/yr No good data after 20 YOE, so I didn't really count anything after that. It does seem like salary does go higher to 175k/yr+, but too few points for a conclusion **Conclusion**: Endgame ME salary actually does not stop at 130k, after 18 YOE, it does reach 150k+/yr range. In other words, it's not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. **Section 2**: Now let's do Total Overall Compensation (base + bonus +%401k match) with cost of living (COL) adjustment. https://preview.redd.it/l2vk6pdhuefe1.png?width=781&format=png&auto=webp&s=91cdee8bb261b468cdc23b7a466d73b323f0b8da Here are the findings based on the trend-line: Entry (0-1 YOE) = 91.4k/yr Experienced (3-5 YOE -> using 4) = 115k/yr Mid-level (7-10 YOE-> using 8.5) = 141.6k/yr Senior/Advanced (10-15 YOE-> using 12.5) = 165.1k/yr Principal (15-20 YOE -> 17.5) = 194.5k/yr No good data after 20 YOE, so I didn't really count anything after that. It does seem like TOC does go higher to 250k/yr+, but too few points for a conclusion **Conclusion**: Endgame ME TOC actually does not stop at 150k, after 18 YOE, it does reach 200k+/yr range. **Section 3**: How far is the data skewed by high earning industries such as FANG or O&G? Here is the graph for Aerospace/Defense and Manufacturing which basically is about: 566 salary data . They are not known for high salaries: https://preview.redd.it/sn1lbxwkuefe1.png?width=720&format=png&auto=webp&s=1493fd664a806c86af89532f173125fa8d5a79bd Here are the findings based on the trend-line: Entry (0-1 YOE) = 81k/yr Experienced (3-5 YOE -> using 4) = 97.8k/yr Mid-level (7-10 YOE-> using 8.5) = 116.7k/yr Senior/Advanced (10-15 YOE-> using 12.5) = 133.3k/yr Principal (15-20 YOE -> 17.5) = 154.5k/yr **Conclusion**: Endgame ME salary actually does not stop at 130k, after 18 YOE, it does reach 150k+/yr range. In other words, it's not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. https://preview.redd.it/x11wafjnuefe1.png?width=783&format=png&auto=webp&s=935f1b552fbca4c606b39ae54de92c76c5081574 Here are the findings based on the trend-line: Entry (0-1 YOE) = 83.9k/yr Experienced (3-5 YOE -> using 4) = 104.7k/yr Mid-level (7-10 YOE-> using 8.5) = 128.2k/yr Senior/Advanced (10-15 YOE-> using 12.5) = 149.1k/yr Principal (15-20 YOE -> 17.5) = 175.1k/yr **Conclusion**: Endgame ME TOC actually does not stop at 150k, after 18 YOE, it does reach 200k+/yr range. In other words, it's not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. **Section 4**: What are the highest paying industries: Tech & Oil & Gas remains the top: https://preview.redd.it/qspnl2yquefe1.png?width=721&format=png&auto=webp&s=b9385dfc7b66033c61ebc0af1af19b4ba743a141 For Tech Only: Here are the findings based on the trend-line: Entry (0-1 YOE) = 87k/yr Experienced (3-5 YOE -> using 4) = 116.8k/yr Mid-level (7-10 YOE-> using 8.5) = 150.4k/yr Senior/Advanced (10-15 YOE-> using 12.5) = 180.3k/yr Principal (15-20 YOE -> 17.5) = 217.7k/yr **Conclusion**: Tech still pays top dollar still. Looks like the base salary continue to goes up to 225k+/yr. https://preview.redd.it/crgjocgsuefe1.png?width=784&format=png&auto=webp&s=98a5f0faab63ccb467351e4326d999610e394ecb For Tech Only: Here are the findings based on the trend-line: Entry (0-1 YOE) = 78k/yr Experienced (3-5 YOE -> using 4) = 125.5k/yr Mid-level (7-10 YOE-> using 8.5) = 179.2k/yr Senior/Advanced (10-15 YOE-> using 12.5) = 227k/yr Principal (15-20 YOE -> 17.5) = 286.6k/yr **Conclusion**: Tech still pays top dollar even with insane COL adjustment, which is about 35% down for NYC and 30% down for San Fransisco. Looks like the TOC continue to goes up to 300k+/yr. **Oil and Gas** will remain a close 2nd: https://preview.redd.it/ydw03ggwuefe1.png?width=720&format=png&auto=webp&s=aaa7f9e7d70fa506f2cfd918520f2f33e5192ea7 For Oil & Gas Only: Here are the findings based on the trend-line: Entry (0-1 YOE) = 82.4k/yr Experienced (3-5 YOE -> using 4) = 104.5k/yr Mid-level (7-10 YOE-> using 8.5) = 129.4k/yr Senior/Advanced (10-15 YOE-> using 12.5) = 151.5k/yr Principal (15-20 YOE -> 17.5) = 179.1k/yr **Conclusion**: Oil & Gas Pays top dollar. Looks like the base salary continue to goes up to almost 200k+/yr. https://preview.redd.it/hjzhx3vxuefe1.png?width=783&format=png&auto=webp&s=09b51d623166846e56fa5d7a22557514532df920 For Tech Only: Here are the findings based on the trend-line: Entry (0-1 YOE) = 84.9k/yr Experienced (3-5 YOE -> using 4) = 125.7k/yr Mid-level (7-10 YOE-> using 8.5) = 171.6k/yr Senior/Advanced (10-15 YOE-> using 12.5) = 212.4k/yr Principal (15-20 YOE -> 17.5) = 263.4k/yr **Conclusion**: Oil & Gas still pays top dollar probably with the help of the COL adjustment, since the places are more rural and increases the relative salary. Looks like the TOC continue to goes up to 250k+/yr. **Section 5**: What are the findings on job hops. This remains a bit more difficult, since I could only pick the same YOE and number of job hops. Therefore, I only used the 5 and 10 YOE vs number of job hops since they the most data and only for Aerospace/defense and Manufacturing so outliers will not skew the data. https://preview.redd.it/u3mgp8s5vefe1.png?width=716&format=png&auto=webp&s=45843af1d8d9ea40a011a8fb7674c9b99bd4e4e0 https://preview.redd.it/x9pdjgr4vefe1.png?width=716&format=png&auto=webp&s=bfed637183b364be4bb616b1bfab7fc4d4d46f05 **Conclusion**: So kind of weird that for younger employees, they are jumping more. Nonetheless, it does seem for the same industry, job hoping does seem to give 3k/job hop for 5 YOE and 6k/job hop for 10 YOE. Therefore, it does make sense for job hops. **Section 6**: What is the average PTO (so many was unlimited, which is very hard to count. I will just give a percentage of unlimited and then graph the rest: https://preview.redd.it/84fi2n58vefe1.png?width=720&format=png&auto=webp&s=2c77af212a0b8ceae7e83b90e91b4aca79dacac4 Entry (0-1 YOE) = 16.5 days (which includes sick days, but not holidays which is 10 days in US) Experienced (3-5 YOE -> using 4) = 18.3 days Mid-level (7-10 YOE-> using 8.5) = 20.3 days Senior/Advanced (10-15 YOE-> using 12.5) = 22 days Principal (15-20 YOE -> 17.5) = 24.2 days Total Unlimited is 158/1026 or 15.4% **Conclusion**: So US doesn't have that bad vacation schedule. Most start at 15 days+ at entry and it slowly builds up to around 20 days after 15 YOE. Adding 10 days which is 30 days, basically like a month of vacation, so it's not that bad. Also, 15%+ has unlimited, which like my company is around 6-8 weeks, unless you are leadership and maybe can negotiate more. **Section 7**: Average work hours in US: https://preview.redd.it/b1rkwvae4efe1.png?width=959&format=png&auto=webp&s=8dcd02ad44e805666a2a6aa1c37465baff4d6230 **Conclusion**: most work 40 hours a week 80%+. **Section 8**: % remote vs. in Office https://preview.redd.it/btflr3lg5efe1.png?width=959&format=png&auto=webp&s=4de3795dac6a8f23e05f9c599d19539db4128066 **Conclusion**: It seems that about 30%+ is 100% in person, with little or no remote possibility. Just for reference, for 100% remote it was about 7% of the workers. **Section 8**: % 401k Match https://preview.redd.it/ziynkcuh6efe1.png?width=758&format=png&auto=webp&s=7f09096f05dcc178f5317929e5e89ef50cfeb18b **Conclusion**: It seems that most of the 401k match is around 2.5% - 6% with some outliers at the tail end. **Section 9**: Health Insurance So really hard to quantify, since way too complicated. I just asked general questions and here is the graph: https://preview.redd.it/ed53y08m7efe1.png?width=611&format=png&auto=webp&s=1d4fd65d3c08002c2596e58a40042c7b1b551e05 **Conclusion**: Most have average health insurance. Some have good insurance. Poor and free is in the minority. **Section 10**: Word Cloud of Cons https://preview.redd.it/4ijq0pw98efe1.png?width=1123&format=png&auto=webp&s=4dff96ff093aaa52fab6102bc648184dd45e8199 **Conclusion**: Seems to be salary and work are the biggest cons. Management, stress, low "salary" and commute is bad. **Section 11**: Word Cloud of Pros https://preview.redd.it/ljfc7hhs8efe1.png?width=974&format=png&auto=webp&s=b9200db2207efef16de69f1f621d6537cc7d4726 **Conclusion**: It seems work is also the most interesting, surprisingly, haha. There does seem to be balance, flexibility and satisfaction. **Data Analysis Insight:** US BLS says the median wage for all ME in US is $99.5k/yr in 2023, so you can just assume 100k/yr in 2024. The median income in our survey is 103k/yr. Now, let's account for age, so the median age of our survey is 29 vs in US is 40. Now, we don't have enough data for those around 40, but you could estimate based on 18 YOE, which has a median salary of #131k/yr. Now, US BLS says $157k/yr is top 10% and $64.5k/yr is bottom 10% so assuming an power curve since that is how salaries are skewed, 131k/yr is about the 73.6% percentile or slightly less than the top 25% of ME. **In short, the survey represents the top 26.4% of ME in the US.** **TDLR**: Salary for ME caps around 150k/yr+ and can go to 200k/yr+ after 20 YOE for select industries. No ME is not dying and salary progression is still decent. It's just not as lucrative as before. **Past Posts**: 2024 US ME Salary Results: [https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalEngineering/comments/1dhmln3/2024\_mechanical\_engineering\_salary\_survey\_results/](https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalEngineering/comments/1dhmln3/2024_mechanical_engineering_salary_survey_results/) 2025 US Survey Raw Data: [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WDRmYACurAgbItxhzvJM0moHU5hHoN56Ot-yrUw6Bmg/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WDRmYACurAgbItxhzvJM0moHU5hHoN56Ot-yrUw6Bmg/edit?usp=sharing) 2025 US Survey Analysis and Graphs Data: [link](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tnHI4KazkOlDLzyWUpdIiGKQ5sN3jFKE/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=107665707298176383133&rtpof=true&sd=true)

r/MechanicalEngineering247 upvotes

My Career Has Made Me Feel That My Sole Purpose Is To Produce Value For Shareholders

Does anyone else feel like this? Please pitch some industries or positions where I'm not a disposable number.

r/MechanicalEngineering237 upvotes

A counter to the pessimism on salary and career progression & Some practical advice

Before I start, my advice is only applicable to the US. EU and Canada MEs get it worse I know. I have 7.5 YOE. I recently started my 4th job which has brought my base cash compensation to 200k and 240k total comp. I moved from a 165K cash comp/180k total job at an established, mid-sized aerospace company in the CA Bay area to a mid-sized but well funded and well known aerospace startup in the LA area, with a slight tiny COL drop. My title band went from L3 out of 6 to L3 out of 5 but I don't really care too much about that; there's people I can learn from and people I can ~~make do bitch work~~ mentor which is more important. I'm the type that'll continuously apply to jobs every once in a while or entertain recruiters even if the ship isn't on fire and I'm not actively looking to leave. I've also always been actively involved on interview panels or as an interview screener so I have an up to date and rounded perspective from both the hiring and applicant side. This interview cycle I only applied to 4 jobs: all via recruiters, 3 selected for interviews and 2 offers received. Our profession shouldn't be envying the ~~code monkeys~~ SWEs. You see the glamourous 300K total comp salaries at MAANG. You don't notice the startups paying 80K in downtown SF or the Ycomb rugpulls that hire 5 dudes and liquidate right after the founder buys a Model S plaid. The former is also the reason big tech is eager to offshore the moment they can. On the contrary, we are much, much harder to offshore or displace via immigration. Don't be like the whiney ~~code monkeys~~ SWEs that blame all their misfortunes on immigration. I am a naturalized citizen, my first 2 jobs were before I got my green card. For those that don't have to check the "Will you ever require visa sponsorship" box in a job app, you will never understand exactly how large a handicap visa holders face for the same job. That being said, there are a few things we can learn from the ~~code monkeys~~ SWEs to improve our overall compensation and employment culture. I don't think the SWE lifestyle of 2020-2022 where everyone with 2 YOE was getting senior titles and job hopping every 8 months for 10% pay bumps is sustainable or healthy, but I think many in the ME field need to adjust their mentality and approach. 1. Being inflexible about relocation especially during early career. This is the No.1 thing that annoys me about the graduated-last-year-still-no-job posts. Your father, his father and his grandfather all lived and died in Bumfuckville, Corn Growing County of Nowhere state in the Midwest, cool. Except you're the first one in your family line who graduated in designing machinery and no one in the next 100 miles manufacturers anything except meth. If your industry has hubs in WA, CA, TX, FL and CO, statistically that is where your first few jobs will be. Yes your cost of living doubles but guess what your net income and net savings increase because prevailing wage is also proportionally higher in those states. 2. Being overly attached to an employer. No, don't job hop every 6 months and put "Ex company 1,2,3,4...." in your Linkedin title like a SWE. But you should interview every once and a while a year after starting a new job. A. it keeps your interview skills sharp so you don't stumble on that beam question in front of your dream employer B. you get a better idea of your actual market value. My philosophy has always been be ready to leave after year 1 if things are bad, be opportunistic after year 2, and be determined to leave after year 3 if you aren't getting solid raises and promotions. Don't feel bad about the manager guilt tripping you saying backfilling and replacing you is hard. The time to value you was before you found another offer, not after you put in 2 weeks. If they actually do value you, offer to contract/consult part time. You have second thoughts about leaving because it would set back a program by a few months. If you know you aren't being monetarily valued at a company, do you think they would hesitate for a minute to lay you off? 3. Trying to "prove your worth" to a broken company. If you notice a company promotes on politics not merit, chances are you won't be the exception to that role. You being exceptional at GD&T is not going to dislodge Sr Director of KissAss. And even if you did play the politics game and got promoted, do you really want to stay? Do you trust the company to remain financially viable in the long term while your skills rust away? Try a few times to do the right thing, if it doesn't work out see point 2. 4. Being stagnant in skills. If you're still pumping out the same drawings after 3 years you're likely still getting paid the same as 3 years ago. Notice what skills get paid more at your job. Start actively encroaching their projects. When their SME gets overloaded or behind schedule offer to "help". Ask the company to pay for training and certification. You need to earn your advancement, not just apply for it.

r/MechanicalEngineering228 upvotes

Does Glassdoor lie/massively inflate salaries for Mech E’s? I tried to use their numbers in an interview and got told I was “comically over the mark”

I was interviewing for a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer position with a company based out of Omaha and they brought up salary expectations. I said $110,000 as a reasonable approximation based on what I've seen on here and aggregators like Glassdoor and got told I was "comically over the mark", that the most they would pay for this position was $85,000. Granted $85,000 would be a sizable raise for me, but still, I guess I wasn't as underpaid as I thought.

r/MechanicalEngineering221 upvotes

Salary trend for ME’s?

Just got off the phone with a recruiter for a mechanical engineer position in biotech that requires 4-5 YOE. Pay is $31/hr. I also interviewed with caterpillar for a position that required 5 YOE and their offer was $65k. I’m an ME with 4+ YOE… This was entry level salary 10 years ago. Has anyone else noticed this trend of low salaries? I know many engineers here will state that I am not trying hard enough, am not a good engineer, have not job hopped enough, etc. I got great grades in engineering school and had internships. Who knows though, maybe I am not trying hard enough? But I’m honestly ready to quit this field and am done trying. Looking into flight school and getting my PMP. Edit: lots of responses here, but to only add fuel to the fire the $31/hr biotech offer is from the same company that laid my entire department off last year. I was making $47/hr at the same position.

r/MechanicalEngineering221 upvotes

Thinking of quitting my $250k/yr engineering job to travel full time—career suicide?

I’m considering leaving my job as a mechanical engineer (currently making $250k+ with 3 years of experience) to travel full time. I’ve saved about $134k, which could cover 2+ years of travel comfortably. My main concern is how this would impact my career. Would taking a 1–2 year break to travel be seen as “career suicide”? I’m based in the US and would want to come back afterward and find a similar role—ideally at comparable pay, though I’d be okay with a pay cut. If I stay, my comp trajectory could reach $350–400k within the next 2 years. For context: * BSMET degree * 2 years in Aerospace R&D * 1 year in Tech If you were hiring, would a candidate with \~3 years of experience but a 1–2 year travel gap still be taken seriously?

r/MechanicalEngineering198 upvotes

Am I going insane or are there absolutely no jobs for early career (5-6 years of experience) engineers?

I'm looking at major cities in the Midwest/flyoverville and it's all HVAC jobs that want a PE and 10+ years of experience or it's entry level gigs paying $65,000 that want 2-3 years of experience. Manufacturers aren't hiring at all, it's only HVAC/MEP type work. When I search mechanical engineer in these cities I get more hits for hotel maintenance guys than I do for actual engineers. I absolutely hate my current job but I don't see any way out, they are genuinely working me to death. I've even started reaching out to former classmates and friends and nobody is hiring. Might have to pack up and move to the coasts, but it's so expensive out there I don't know a soul. God damn I regret becoming an engineer.

r/MechanicalEngineering194 upvotes

27 y/o Mech Eng Bachelor’s struggling to get an actual engineering job - have I screwed myself?

Hi all, I’m a 27-year old who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in ME four years ago. I’m a certified Engineer Intern in my state, but I have struggled to land an actual engineering job in my career. I graduated magna cum laude, but I neglected to do internships while in college. I however worked on a rocketry project in college for my senior design project, and after I graduated, I worked freelance for a company in California as a product designer while I searched for an engineering job. It took me a year and a half to land just a contract job as a drafter. I worked with Company B for nearly 3 years and I interviewed with them several times for a full-time position as an engineer before my contract got terminated and I got laid off. I’m currently searching for full-time jobs in engineering, particularly in the aerospace industry, and I just got turned down for a position for a company that I interviewed with that I really liked. I’m very competent in drafting, but it involves little engineering, and it’s not something I want to do forever. I want to start doing actual engineering work and I am worried that I have probably screwed myself here. Is there still hope for me to get a position as an engineer, or am I stuck doing drafting work forever?

r/MechanicalEngineering184 upvotes

Is the job market just abysmal right now?

I keep seeing on the job boards companies in major cities looking for engineers with 5+ years of experience and offering 85k salary, seems suuuper low to me. Is this actually what the market looks like right now?

r/MechanicalEngineering184 upvotes

Does Mechanical Engineering have a lower “skill gap” than other professions? What explains the low salary ceiling in our profession?

If you look at other "professions", high end workers in the field can make upwards of 4, 5, 6, 10x what entry level workers make because their experience is just that valuable. In Mechanical Engineering, the Principal level guys make like 1.6-2x what the entry level guys make. And it's not just because we make a marginally higher salary floor. Why is this? I feel like I'm dramatically more valuable to the company than I was when I was fresh out of school 6 years ago but I only make like 28% more. The wider data on pay progression for engineers is the same. If you look at something like lawyers or software developers or actuaries or marketing people, the really talented, experienced ones are making like 5-6x what entry level ones make. Do those fields just have larger skill gaps and more depth than ours such that companies will pay a lot more for experience relative to entry level?

r/MechanicalEngineering171 upvotes

A rant.

I started with the company that I'm working with a little over 2 years ago. I was assigned a wild goose chase for my first project (newbie hazing). I actually completed the initial prototype for the design in 2 weeks. No one could really believe it, but it was completed. I then spent the next 2 years developing this product in to something that could go in to production. 4 trips to China, lots of effort. Finally, as of 3 weeks ago, the product was ready. Perfect. Everything in line, everything looked good. Truly a first of its kind product in my field, a one and only product that can be developed in to its own system. Today, the project was cancelled. Our company got bought out by a billionaire who likes to have his hands on every project. I was going to get multiple patents with my name on them (and the company name as well), and now I can't. I was hoping to use this experience, and the proof of my engineering knowledge and experience through the patents to move through my career. I guess not. Anyways, thanks for reading my rant. I feel expendable, and useless. -EDIT- One of you took the liberty to have Reddit Care Resources reach out to me. I'm not in any way going to harm myself. Please don't use that service for stuff like this. Nowhere in my post did I say that I was going to harm myself.

r/MechanicalEngineering170 upvotes

Lost all confidence in myself as a result of this career—has this happened to anyone else?

Every time I make a mistake or miss something I lose a little more confidence in myself. I was always known as the "smart guy" growing up, did well in engineering school, but in the real world any and every mistake comes back to bite you in the ass and I feel like I have zero confidence in myself anymore. There's just so much to know and the scope of my job feels like it's limitless at times, I constantly find myself saying "I don't know" to tons of questions or "it depends". Have you guys experienced this? I thought I'd become more self assured and confident as I got older, instead the opposite has happened.

r/MechanicalEngineering170 upvotes

Anyone else dislike hardware, getting their hands dirty, etc

Edit: This isn’t a request for comment about my career, I am already experienced and employed 🙂‍↕️ I’m a mechanical engineer, by education and experience. But my career has been in analysis. Structural and thermal analysis, using finite element tools and other analytical methods to solve problems. I don’t like putting my hands on hardware. I don’t like grease. I don’t like looking at pictures of hardware. I dont like being on a loud factory floor listening to a machine go brrrrrr. I like models and plots and numbers. This feels taboo in the mechanical engineering world. It’s popular to dismiss theory, and see things like tinkering and… car maintenance as virtuous for lack of a better word. I feel kind of alone in this opinion so I was wondering if anyone here can relate.

r/MechanicalEngineering161 upvotes

Salary progression over a 25 year career

This is my salary history over 25 years at the same company, in the semiconductor capital equipment field, in a VHCOL area (eastern Massachusetts). https://preview.redd.it/ouc8j55ylxle1.png?width=330&format=png&auto=webp&s=a4764c820b84c7db54e1ae4e17286bd1504e18d0 To answer questions: I work at the boundary of mechanical and electrical or mechanical and optical engineering. My job title is a mechanical architect, and I currently have Solidworks open on my computer. I don't have an FE or PE or any other qualifications beyond a bachelor's degree, a dozen patents, and a few publications. I graduated from college in 1997 and worked overseas (Japan) for two years in what was technically a paid internship in the automotive industry before switching to semiconductors just in time for the dotcom bust. In 2002 and 2009, I had a lower salary than teh year before because the company had temporary pay cuts for everyone. Since 2019, I've been a technical fellow and my salary has been tied to the stock price and specific corporate performance targets, which is why my total compensation has been more unstable recently.

r/MechanicalEngineering159 upvotes

Senior ME struggling to mentor junior ME.

I'm about 10 years into my career and have transitioned into more of a senior engineer role. For a while, I had the senior title, but no one to actually lead, as we did not have any junior engineers. We hired a junior engineer straight out of college ~2 years ago and we have been struggling to grow his independence and skill set. Our business was extremely slow the first year of his employment and I think that stunted his growth. Even after 2 years, I still find I have to be *very* specific with any direction I give to this junior engineer. For example, I recently asked him to design some brackets to mount sensors to a conveyor. His bracket designed caused the sensor to slightly overhang the guide rail and clip the product as it passes by. Granted, I missed this detail when I checked over his work, but his response was that I never told him the sensors shouldn't hit the product. *sigh* In my opinion, good managers take accountability and don't blame their subordinates, but in this case, making sure the sensors don't hit the boxes feels like common sense to me? His deflection upsets me. I understand if he just forgot to check it. I recently cost the company thousands because I missed a single digit in a 15 digit part number. It happens. I just wish he took accountability and learned he needs to pay attention to the small details, even if I don't explicitly state them. We struggle to utilize him to support our projects because he needs so much hand holding and every little detailed spelled out to him. He asks questions, but the questions often feel like he is trying to flex his knowledge, rather than actually understand the problem. There are a few people at our company who refuse to work with him because he acts like he knows everything and talks over subject matter experts. We have another support engineer who is fantastic. He is roughly a decade older than the junior mention above. I can give him a high level view of what I want accomplished and he will easily fill in all the gaps. Sometimes, he does miss small details I fail to point out, but his oversights tend to be on more niche aspects of the design that only I, the lead engineer, am familiar with, so I have no issue taking accountability for those mistakes. I get that experience comes with time in the industry, I am just struggling with how to grow this guy into a more useful junior engineer. Anyone have advice?

r/MechanicalEngineering150 upvotes

Stuck as a Manufacturing Engineer, Is there light at the end of the tunnel?

Graduated with a mechanical engineer degree 2 years ago and went straight into manufacturing. On paper, it seemed like the perfect job. Hands on work, 50/50 field/desk work. Watching machinery run and troubleshooting/optimizing. I love tinkering and working with my hands, this job seemed perfect. But as soon as I entered, things didnt not go how I expected. **THE COMPANY:** High turnover, insanely toxic and weak management, strong union that refuses to do anything. I've already had three different "permanent" managers in my 2 years here. Somehow I'm the 2nd oldest in tenure right now in my 4 man engineering team lol. Its a revolving door. **THE JOB:** The small "engineering" team is expected to do everything, from the normal (improvements, troubleshooting, cost reduction, projects, reliability, major maintenance, assisting in breakdowns) to the not so expected (responsible for personally training the hourly staff, supervise the floor, and being a mechanic and turning wrenches alone during breakdown events. basically being a salaried union worker with none of the protections). The workload seems insane. It feels like Im a glorified production supervisor/mechanic/operator, while also completing engineering duties. **THE QUESTION:** I understand as an entry level worker, you're expected to have a rougher "get dirty" job. I dont want to come off as entitled at all as a fresh grad but is this normal for manufacturing engineering? I have no point of comparison right now since this is my first job. Does it really get better from here? Is this a common/normal experience? Cause if this is the normal experience, then Im seriously considering switching into design lol. **PS Im 100% leaving this company, but wondering if I should give manufacturing engineering another chance.**

r/engineering145 upvotes

Why are manufacturers still asking basic RFQ questions 3 months later?

As an engineer heavily involved in procurement, I have to vent about something that's been driving me up the wall. We sent out an RFQ over three months ago, and I'm still fielding the same stupid questions from multiple manufacturers! Questions that are clearly answered in the RFQ package. It’s like they're not even reading it! I get that some queries might be legitimate; those are the minority. But the sheer amount of repetitive nonsense I have to deal with is a huge time sink. I've already dedicated countless hours to this and it’s making it impossible for me to focus on my actual work. I feel like I'm stuck in an endless loop of explaining the same details over and over again. Is there a better way to handle this? Has anyone else faced this issue, and how have you tackled similar problems? I'm looking for solutions or strategies that could help streamline this process.

r/MechanicalEngineering145 upvotes

Job Search for 1 YoE (July '24 - March '25)

After graduating college with a masters degree I accepted a job that was in the bottom quartile (55k) for mechanical engineering salaries and the work reflected the salary. After 9 months, the company went bankrupt so I began searching for a new job. I started looking seriously at the end of August, so it's been around 6 months of serious job searching. I've used job aggregators such as Indeed and LinkedIn, I've applied to many companies directly, I've approached several recruiting companies myself and responded to others that have contacted me themselves, I've found more specific job aggregators such as SpaceCrew and BuildSubmarines that allows me to target jobs that are more interesting to me. I've also reached out to friends for referrals. So far no success. I did get one offer, but it was again in the bottom 10% for salaries with my experience (60k) and with an expensive commute, 1/4 of my salary would be lost just on the commute and the work itself was fit for someone with a trade school degree not a university degree so it would set me back even more so I declined. Just wanted to show other job seekers that they're not alone in struggling to get a job and also to not settle for a mediocre job if you can afford to keep searching because it will set you back/make it more difficult later on as it has for me.

r/MechanicalEngineering141 upvotes

What were the things that led to your highest salary increases?

I feel like most people will say job swapping, but curious if others had big boosts after certs like their PE, PMP, or six sigma belts? Or things like maybe pursuing and MBA, networking through jobs or organizations, or anything else in particular. The main question is what advice you’d give to a 4-5 year experience engineer to focus on in their career to increase salary

r/engineering135 upvotes

Lost passion.

I got into Mechanical Engineering back in college because high job placement. Did a couple years working for a tool manufacturer doing continuous improvement, got into quality, did some process engineering for another manufacturer and then I met my wife. We ended up moving across country for her career and I’ve been not liking my job for the year before we moved. I decided to try and do a change but nothing came up. Now I’m working in quality for a food manufacturer here and I just don’t care anymore…. No passion, just want to do my job and go home. I find passion in making things, fixing things, and just feeling like I’m doing something worthy. Not really looking for advice, just more venting and wondering how many of you are in the same boat. Honestly, been thinking about quitting and just focusing on wood working but not a lot of money in that field. I talked with the plant manager and I’ll be moving to an operational role. Hoping that if I can just get away from quality, I might like what I do. Last job I had that I truly loved was being a testing technician for a ceiling fan manufacturer. Loved getting paid to break things.

r/MechanicalEngineering135 upvotes

22 Year Salary Growth - It isn't all doom and gloom!

I replied to the other thread where someone had a similar career span but barely broke into the 6 digits. So here is mine in relatively LCOL/MCOL areas: https://imgur.com/gEV8Y01 You will notice a few things: I shot myself in the foot starting at 49k. I didn't know any better and my first company asked for my salary requirements so that is what I wrote down! They did give me larger raises to try to get into a better spot but an extra 1 percent on a very low salary still sucks. The big jumps happened for either job changes, adjustments, or retentions. That is an unfortunate part of how companies are doing business but that is life. I have been consistently beating the 3% average the past several years. I owe that to actively engaging to improve the company and how business is done at my job level. I did take a sideways job change and should have pushed for a higher starting salary at my latest job, but everything worked out in the end.

r/MechanicalEngineering134 upvotes

Mechanical Engineers who left to pursue another career path - how did it work out for you?

What made you decide to switch? How difficult was it to make the transition? Did you need to go back to school? Knowing what you know now, would you do it again? Thanks in advance!

r/MechanicalEngineering133 upvotes

6.5 years into my career, making $77,000, completely tired and burnt out, should I just quit?

I’m basically doing the job of 3 engineers at this point + helping with manufacturing + doing quality stuff and I dread going to work every day because everything I do is maximum urgency. I can’t find another job because the stuff I do at work is so specific to my company and every other company is so picky right now (plus there just aren’t many jobs available). My company will not hire any more help. I’ve practically begged them for more help for over a year (went to my manager, the CFO, the head of operations, they all said we can’t afford it right now), every time an engineer has quit over the past 3 years they haven’t filled the job. I don’t want to work anymore. I can’t find another engineering job, my PTO requests get denied unless it’s like a half day to a day, so I can’t even clear my mind with extended time off. I’m strongly considering quitting and maybe doing deliveries for Jimmy John’s or stocking shelves, the grocery stores around me are hiring at around 16 an hour which I could subsist on. Need some opinions. I am in Nebraska.

r/engineering126 upvotes

Manufacturing Engineers, what is your relationship like with the fitters/operators on the shop floor?

I think ive made a bad first impression and need to fix it, to have an easier life at work. They seem pissed at me for asking too many questions. I may have been to excited and thought they didnt mind. Rather than directly tell me, they must have went through managment. Which I think is a little extreme. Could have just talked to me themselves. Do you have any advice from your exp?

r/engineering125 upvotes

Calculator for engineers of a certain age...

As I get older, I find it a pain to get out the graphing calc with a hundred teeny buttons for every little thing, and I don't always have my computer nearby. Is there a desktop-style physical calculator that's just there in the real world and that I don't have to open a damned app or navigate to just to do basic stuff? Maybe some basic scientific notation and unit conversions? You know the ones that tax accountants have that have a couple extra functions useful to them? Like that, but for me. Bonus points if it's steam powered, I guess.

r/engineering93 upvotes

Does anyone else feel like they waste their time because half the things they do even if requested get pushed aside?

I personally do a lot of automation of reports/actions for a tool I support to help my team and provide transparency for quality goals. However it feels like everytime I put time (hours-days) into actually developing a solution it gets waved away/shot down by a more senior engineer.....even if its something requested by them, usually because the tool honestly has some shit design (no api overwrite for things that can be done manually using the UI prompting workarounds) honestly makes me wonder "WTF am I here for if apparently nothing I do is good enough?" Always get great performance reviews but its really annoying and eats away at the self confidence to have my work be shut down constantly

r/engineering75 upvotes

Do you ever “go along” with projects you don’t think will pan out, just to keep the engagement from the client?

No judgment, just curious to hear from engineers, especially those working at firms or as consultants. Have you ever had a client or startup approach you with a project that, deep down, you knew had very little chance of success—whether due to poor planning, unrealistic expectations, lack of funding/experience, or just a weak concept?

r/engineering70 upvotes

How do you guys organize all the daily tiny fires that come up?

Looking for a free software solution or other solution for this. I have my main projects I work on that are easy enough to track. But I constantly have people coming in my office asking for little things here and there. But it's constant. I try to write it all down but then sometimes the paper I wrote it on ends up in the garbage. How do you guys organize all your tasks? I'm forgetting things when people bring me 50 problems a day. I need to track every time someone brings me a task and when I will or am working on it. Any suggestions? I really need to improve my organization as I have epilepsy so my short term memory is nonexistent.

r/engineering30 upvotes

r/engineering's Monthly Feb 2025 Hiring Thread for Engineering Professionals

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r/engineering19 upvotes

Resources for Informal Continued Education

Apologies if this is a common topic on here - feel free to point me elsewhere if there are other similar posts. Is anyone aware of good resources or ideas for non-masters-degree continued education options? Things like trainings, newsletters, mini-courses or certifications, etc. or even just good books to read (like things that can be read casually, on a kindle for example) that are a good way to keep your skills/knowledge sharp, or branch out into new topics too, but without the time and financial commitment of a masters degree or similar pursuit. I suppose I could always dig out my old textbooks, I’m sure there’s plenty in those that I’m rusty on & could stand to refresh a bit, but that honestly seems a bit intimidating without some sort of course structure to direct the learning a bit at least. I know some other professions have pretty well-established and formalized continuing education requirements, and thus tend to have pretty good options for how to satisfy them, but I’ve always felt like engineering is a bit lacking in that area (unless I’m just not plugged into the broader profession in the right way). For reference, I’m probably what you’d call on the border between early to mid career, having graduated with my bachelors almost 10 years ago & been working ever since at a few different companies. I’ve toyed with the idea of a masters degree sooner or later but certain personal commitments make it tough to imagine carving out the time for one any time in the near future, but I feel like I’m not learning as much as I did early on in my career so I’m just trying not to stagnate. Any and all thoughts would be sincerely appreciated!

r/engineering15 upvotes

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r/engineering15 upvotes

r/engineering's Monthly Mar 2025 Hiring Thread for Engineering Professionals

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r/engineering14 upvotes

r/engineering's Monthly Sep 2025 Hiring Thread for Engineering Professionals

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r/engineering14 upvotes

r/engineering's Monthly Jul 2025 Hiring Thread for Engineering Professionals

\# Overview If you have open positions at your company for engineering professionals (including technologists, fabricators, and technicians) and would like to hire from the r/engineering user base, please leave a comment detailing any open job listings at your company. &#x200B; &#x200B; We also encourage you to post internship positions as well. Many of our readers are currently in school or are just finishing their education. &#x200B; \*\*Please don't post duplicate comments.\*\* This thread uses Contest Mode, which means all comments are forced to randomly sort with scores hidden. If you want to advertise new positions, edit your original comment. &#x200B; \> \[Archive of old hiring threads](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A"hiring+thread"&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance&t=all) &#x200B; \## Top-level comments are reserved for posting open positions! &#x200B; Any top-level comments that are not a job posting will be removed. However, I will sticky a comment that you can reply to for discussion related to hiring and the job market. Alternatively, feel free to use the \[Weekly Career Discussion Thread.\](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22Weekly+Discussion%22&sort=new&restrict_sr=on&t=all) &#x200B; \## Feedback &#x200B; Feedback and suggestions are welcome, but please \[\*\*message us\*\*\](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%2Fr%2Fengineering&subject=Feedback:%20Quarterly%20Hiring%20Thread) instead of posting them here. &#x200B; \--- &#x200B; \# READ THIS BEFORE POSTING &#x200B; \## Rules & Guidelines &#x200B; 1. Include the company name in your post. &#x200B; 1. Include the geographic location of the position along with any availability of relocation assistance. &#x200B; 1. Clearly list citizenship, visa, and security clearance requirements. &#x200B; 1. State whether the position is \*Full Time\*, \*Part Time\*, or \*Contract\*. For contract positions, include the duration of the contract and any details on contract renewal / extension. &#x200B; 1. Mention if applicants should apply officially through HR, or directly through you. \* \*\*If you are a third-party recruiter, you must disclose this in your posting.\*\* \* While it's fine to link to the position on your company website, provide the important details in your comment. \* Please be thorough and upfront with the position details. Use of non-HR'd (realistic) requirements is encouraged. &#x200B; 1. \*\*Pandemic Guidelines:\*\* \* Include a percent estimate of how much of the job can be done remotely, OR how many days each week the hire is expected to show up at the office. \* Include your company's policy on Paid Time Off (PTO), Flex Time Off (FTO), and/or another form of sick leave compensation, and details of how much of this is available on Day 1 of employment. \*\*If this type of compensation is unknown or not provided, you must state this in your posting.\*\* \* Include what type of health insurance is offered by the company as part of the position. &#x200B; \## TEMPLATE &#x200B; \### !!! NOTE: Turn on Markdown Mode for this to format correctly! &#x200B; \*\*Company Name:\*\* &#x200B; \*\*Location (City/State/Country):\*\* &#x200B; \*\*Citizenship / Visa Requirement:\*\* &#x200B; \*\*Position Type:\*\* (Full Time / Part Time / Contract) &#x200B; \*\*Contract Duration (if applicable):\*\* &#x200B; \*\*Third-Party Recruiter:\*\* (YES / NO) &#x200B; \*\*Remote Work (%):\*\* &#x200B; \*\*Paid Time Off Policy:\*\* &#x200B; \*\*Health Insurance Compensation:\*\* &#x200B; \*\*Position Details:\*\* &#x200B; (Describe the details of the open position here. Please be thorough and upfront with the position details. Use of non-HR'd (realistic) requirements is encouraged.)

r/engineering13 upvotes

Weekly Career Discussion Thread (07 Jul 2025)

\# Intro &#x200B; Welcome to the weekly career discussion thread, where you can talk about all career & professional topics. Topics may include: &#x200B; \* Professional career guidance & questions; e.g. job hunting advice, job offers comparisons, how to network &#x200B; \* Educational guidance & questions; e.g. what engineering discipline to major in, which university is good, &#x200B; \* Feedback on your résumé, CV, cover letter, etc. &#x200B; \* The job market, compensation, relocation, and other topics on the economics of engineering. &#x200B; \> \[Archive of past threads](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22weekly+discussion%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all) &#x200B; \--- &#x200B; \## Guidelines &#x200B; 1. \*\*Before asking any questions, consult \[the AskEngineers wiki.](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq)\*\* There are detailed answers to common questions on: \* Job compensation \* Cost of Living adjustments \* Advice for how to decide on an engineering major \* How to choose which university to attend &#x200B; 1. Most subreddit rules still apply and will be enforced, especially R7 and R9 (with the obvious exceptions of R1 and R3) &#x200B; 1. Job POSTINGS must go into the latest \[\*\*Monthly Hiring Thread.\*\*\]((https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22hiring+thread%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all)) Any that are posted here will be removed, and you'll be kindly redirected to the hiring thread. &#x200B; 1. \*\*Do not request interviews in this thread!\*\* If you need to interview an engineer for your school assignment, use the list in the sidebar. &#x200B; \## Resources &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers wiki](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq) &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers Quarterly Salary Survey\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/search/?q=flair%3A%22salary+survey%22&include_over_18=on&restrict_sr=on&t=all&sort=new) &#x200B; \* \*\*For students:\*\* \[\*"What's your average day like as an engineer?"\*\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/wiki/faq#wiki_what.27s_your_average_day_like_as_an_engineer.3F) We recommend that you spend an hour or so reading about what engineers actually do at work. This will help you make a more informed decision on which major to choose, or at least give you enough info to ask follow-up questions here. &#x200B; \* For those of you interested in a career in software development / Computer Science, go to r/cscareerquestions.

r/engineering12 upvotes

Weekly Career Discussion Thread (10 Feb 2025)

\# Intro &#x200B; Welcome to the weekly career discussion thread, where you can talk about all career & professional topics. Topics may include: &#x200B; \* Professional career guidance & questions; e.g. job hunting advice, job offers comparisons, how to network &#x200B; \* Educational guidance & questions; e.g. what engineering discipline to major in, which university is good, &#x200B; \* Feedback on your résumé, CV, cover letter, etc. &#x200B; \* The job market, compensation, relocation, and other topics on the economics of engineering. &#x200B; \> \[Archive of past threads](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22weekly+discussion%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all) &#x200B; \--- &#x200B; \## Guidelines &#x200B; 1. \*\*Before asking any questions, consult \[the AskEngineers wiki.](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq)\*\* There are detailed answers to common questions on: \* Job compensation \* Cost of Living adjustments \* Advice for how to decide on an engineering major \* How to choose which university to attend &#x200B; 1. Most subreddit rules still apply and will be enforced, especially R7 and R9 (with the obvious exceptions of R1 and R3) &#x200B; 1. Job POSTINGS must go into the latest \[\*\*Monthly Hiring Thread.\*\*\]((https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22hiring+thread%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all)) Any that are posted here will be removed, and you'll be kindly redirected to the hiring thread. &#x200B; 1. \*\*Do not request interviews in this thread!\*\* If you need to interview an engineer for your school assignment, use the list in the sidebar. &#x200B; \## Resources &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers wiki](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq) &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers Quarterly Salary Survey\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/search/?q=flair%3A%22salary+survey%22&include_over_18=on&restrict_sr=on&t=all&sort=new) &#x200B; \* \*\*For students:\*\* \[\*"What's your average day like as an engineer?"\*\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/wiki/faq#wiki_what.27s_your_average_day_like_as_an_engineer.3F) We recommend that you spend an hour or so reading about what engineers actually do at work. This will help you make a more informed decision on which major to choose, or at least give you enough info to ask follow-up questions here. &#x200B; \* For those of you interested in a career in software development / Computer Science, go to r/cscareerquestions.

r/engineering12 upvotes

Weekly Career Discussion Thread (17 Mar 2025)

\# Intro &#x200B; Welcome to the weekly career discussion thread, where you can talk about all career & professional topics. Topics may include: &#x200B; \* Professional career guidance & questions; e.g. job hunting advice, job offers comparisons, how to network &#x200B; \* Educational guidance & questions; e.g. what engineering discipline to major in, which university is good, &#x200B; \* Feedback on your résumé, CV, cover letter, etc. &#x200B; \* The job market, compensation, relocation, and other topics on the economics of engineering. &#x200B; \> \[Archive of past threads](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22weekly+discussion%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all) &#x200B; \--- &#x200B; \## Guidelines &#x200B; 1. \*\*Before asking any questions, consult \[the AskEngineers wiki.](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq)\*\* There are detailed answers to common questions on: \* Job compensation \* Cost of Living adjustments \* Advice for how to decide on an engineering major \* How to choose which university to attend &#x200B; 1. Most subreddit rules still apply and will be enforced, especially R7 and R9 (with the obvious exceptions of R1 and R3) &#x200B; 1. Job POSTINGS must go into the latest \[\*\*Monthly Hiring Thread.\*\*\]((https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22hiring+thread%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all)) Any that are posted here will be removed, and you'll be kindly redirected to the hiring thread. &#x200B; 1. \*\*Do not request interviews in this thread!\*\* If you need to interview an engineer for your school assignment, use the list in the sidebar. &#x200B; \## Resources &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers wiki](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq) &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers Quarterly Salary Survey\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/search/?q=flair%3A%22salary+survey%22&include_over_18=on&restrict_sr=on&t=all&sort=new) &#x200B; \* \*\*For students:\*\* \[\*"What's your average day like as an engineer?"\*\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/wiki/faq#wiki_what.27s_your_average_day_like_as_an_engineer.3F) We recommend that you spend an hour or so reading about what engineers actually do at work. This will help you make a more informed decision on which major to choose, or at least give you enough info to ask follow-up questions here. &#x200B; \* For those of you interested in a career in software development / Computer Science, go to r/cscareerquestions.

r/engineering12 upvotes

Weekly Career Discussion Thread (21 Apr 2025)

\# Intro &#x200B; Welcome to the weekly career discussion thread, where you can talk about all career & professional topics. Topics may include: &#x200B; \* Professional career guidance & questions; e.g. job hunting advice, job offers comparisons, how to network &#x200B; \* Educational guidance & questions; e.g. what engineering discipline to major in, which university is good, &#x200B; \* Feedback on your résumé, CV, cover letter, etc. &#x200B; \* The job market, compensation, relocation, and other topics on the economics of engineering. &#x200B; \> \[Archive of past threads](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22weekly+discussion%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all) &#x200B; \--- &#x200B; \## Guidelines &#x200B; 1. \*\*Before asking any questions, consult \[the AskEngineers wiki.](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq)\*\* There are detailed answers to common questions on: \* Job compensation \* Cost of Living adjustments \* Advice for how to decide on an engineering major \* How to choose which university to attend &#x200B; 1. Most subreddit rules still apply and will be enforced, especially R7 and R9 (with the obvious exceptions of R1 and R3) &#x200B; 1. Job POSTINGS must go into the latest \[\*\*Monthly Hiring Thread.\*\*\]((https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22hiring+thread%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all)) Any that are posted here will be removed, and you'll be kindly redirected to the hiring thread. &#x200B; 1. \*\*Do not request interviews in this thread!\*\* If you need to interview an engineer for your school assignment, use the list in the sidebar. &#x200B; \## Resources &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers wiki](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq) &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers Quarterly Salary Survey\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/search/?q=flair%3A%22salary+survey%22&include_over_18=on&restrict_sr=on&t=all&sort=new) &#x200B; \* \*\*For students:\*\* \[\*"What's your average day like as an engineer?"\*\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/wiki/faq#wiki_what.27s_your_average_day_like_as_an_engineer.3F) We recommend that you spend an hour or so reading about what engineers actually do at work. This will help you make a more informed decision on which major to choose, or at least give you enough info to ask follow-up questions here. &#x200B; \* For those of you interested in a career in software development / Computer Science, go to r/cscareerquestions.

r/engineering12 upvotes

Weekly Career Discussion Thread (24 Feb 2025)

\# Intro &#x200B; Welcome to the weekly career discussion thread, where you can talk about all career & professional topics. Topics may include: &#x200B; \* Professional career guidance & questions; e.g. job hunting advice, job offers comparisons, how to network &#x200B; \* Educational guidance & questions; e.g. what engineering discipline to major in, which university is good, &#x200B; \* Feedback on your résumé, CV, cover letter, etc. &#x200B; \* The job market, compensation, relocation, and other topics on the economics of engineering. &#x200B; \> \[Archive of past threads](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22weekly+discussion%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all) &#x200B; \--- &#x200B; \## Guidelines &#x200B; 1. \*\*Before asking any questions, consult \[the AskEngineers wiki.](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq)\*\* There are detailed answers to common questions on: \* Job compensation \* Cost of Living adjustments \* Advice for how to decide on an engineering major \* How to choose which university to attend &#x200B; 1. Most subreddit rules still apply and will be enforced, especially R7 and R9 (with the obvious exceptions of R1 and R3) &#x200B; 1. Job POSTINGS must go into the latest \[\*\*Monthly Hiring Thread.\*\*\]((https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22hiring+thread%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all)) Any that are posted here will be removed, and you'll be kindly redirected to the hiring thread. &#x200B; 1. \*\*Do not request interviews in this thread!\*\* If you need to interview an engineer for your school assignment, use the list in the sidebar. &#x200B; \## Resources &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers wiki](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq) &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers Quarterly Salary Survey\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/search/?q=flair%3A%22salary+survey%22&include_over_18=on&restrict_sr=on&t=all&sort=new) &#x200B; \* \*\*For students:\*\* \[\*"What's your average day like as an engineer?"\*\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/wiki/faq#wiki_what.27s_your_average_day_like_as_an_engineer.3F) We recommend that you spend an hour or so reading about what engineers actually do at work. This will help you make a more informed decision on which major to choose, or at least give you enough info to ask follow-up questions here. &#x200B; \* For those of you interested in a career in software development / Computer Science, go to r/cscareerquestions.

r/engineering12 upvotes

r/engineering's Monthly Jun 2025 Hiring Thread for Engineering Professionals

\# Overview If you have open positions at your company for engineering professionals (including technologists, fabricators, and technicians) and would like to hire from the r/engineering user base, please leave a comment detailing any open job listings at your company. &#x200B; &#x200B; We also encourage you to post internship positions as well. Many of our readers are currently in school or are just finishing their education. &#x200B; \*\*Please don't post duplicate comments.\*\* This thread uses Contest Mode, which means all comments are forced to randomly sort with scores hidden. If you want to advertise new positions, edit your original comment. &#x200B; \> \[Archive of old hiring threads](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A"hiring+thread"&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance&t=all) &#x200B; \## Top-level comments are reserved for posting open positions! &#x200B; Any top-level comments that are not a job posting will be removed. However, I will sticky a comment that you can reply to for discussion related to hiring and the job market. Alternatively, feel free to use the \[Weekly Career Discussion Thread.\](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22Weekly+Discussion%22&sort=new&restrict_sr=on&t=all) &#x200B; \## Feedback &#x200B; Feedback and suggestions are welcome, but please \[\*\*message us\*\*\](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%2Fr%2Fengineering&subject=Feedback:%20Quarterly%20Hiring%20Thread) instead of posting them here. &#x200B; \--- &#x200B; \# READ THIS BEFORE POSTING &#x200B; \## Rules & Guidelines &#x200B; 1. Include the company name in your post. &#x200B; 1. Include the geographic location of the position along with any availability of relocation assistance. &#x200B; 1. Clearly list citizenship, visa, and security clearance requirements. &#x200B; 1. State whether the position is \*Full Time\*, \*Part Time\*, or \*Contract\*. For contract positions, include the duration of the contract and any details on contract renewal / extension. &#x200B; 1. Mention if applicants should apply officially through HR, or directly through you. \* \*\*If you are a third-party recruiter, you must disclose this in your posting.\*\* \* While it's fine to link to the position on your company website, provide the important details in your comment. \* Please be thorough and upfront with the position details. Use of non-HR'd (realistic) requirements is encouraged. &#x200B; 1. \*\*Pandemic Guidelines:\*\* \* Include a percent estimate of how much of the job can be done remotely, OR how many days each week the hire is expected to show up at the office. \* Include your company's policy on Paid Time Off (PTO), Flex Time Off (FTO), and/or another form of sick leave compensation, and details of how much of this is available on Day 1 of employment. \*\*If this type of compensation is unknown or not provided, you must state this in your posting.\*\* \* Include what type of health insurance is offered by the company as part of the position. &#x200B; \## TEMPLATE &#x200B; \### !!! NOTE: Turn on Markdown Mode for this to format correctly! &#x200B; \*\*Company Name:\*\* &#x200B; \*\*Location (City/State/Country):\*\* &#x200B; \*\*Citizenship / Visa Requirement:\*\* &#x200B; \*\*Position Type:\*\* (Full Time / Part Time / Contract) &#x200B; \*\*Contract Duration (if applicable):\*\* &#x200B; \*\*Third-Party Recruiter:\*\* (YES / NO) &#x200B; \*\*Remote Work (%):\*\* &#x200B; \*\*Paid Time Off Policy:\*\* &#x200B; \*\*Health Insurance Compensation:\*\* &#x200B; \*\*Position Details:\*\* &#x200B; (Describe the details of the open position here. Please be thorough and upfront with the position details. Use of non-HR'd (realistic) requirements is encouraged.)

r/engineering11 upvotes

Weekly Career Discussion Thread (13 Jan 2025)

\# Intro &#x200B; Welcome to the weekly career discussion thread, where you can talk about all career & professional topics. Topics may include: &#x200B; \* Professional career guidance & questions; e.g. job hunting advice, job offers comparisons, how to network &#x200B; \* Educational guidance & questions; e.g. what engineering discipline to major in, which university is good, &#x200B; \* Feedback on your résumé, CV, cover letter, etc. &#x200B; \* The job market, compensation, relocation, and other topics on the economics of engineering. &#x200B; \> \[Archive of past threads](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22weekly+discussion%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all) &#x200B; \--- &#x200B; \## Guidelines &#x200B; 1. \*\*Before asking any questions, consult \[the AskEngineers wiki.](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq)\*\* There are detailed answers to common questions on: \* Job compensation \* Cost of Living adjustments \* Advice for how to decide on an engineering major \* How to choose which university to attend &#x200B; 1. Most subreddit rules still apply and will be enforced, especially R7 and R9 (with the obvious exceptions of R1 and R3) &#x200B; 1. Job POSTINGS must go into the latest \[\*\*Monthly Hiring Thread.\*\*\]((https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22hiring+thread%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all)) Any that are posted here will be removed, and you'll be kindly redirected to the hiring thread. &#x200B; 1. \*\*Do not request interviews in this thread!\*\* If you need to interview an engineer for your school assignment, use the list in the sidebar. &#x200B; \## Resources &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers wiki](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq) &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers Quarterly Salary Survey\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/search/?q=flair%3A%22salary+survey%22&include_over_18=on&restrict_sr=on&t=all&sort=new) &#x200B; \* \*\*For students:\*\* \[\*"What's your average day like as an engineer?"\*\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/wiki/faq#wiki_what.27s_your_average_day_like_as_an_engineer.3F) We recommend that you spend an hour or so reading about what engineers actually do at work. This will help you make a more informed decision on which major to choose, or at least give you enough info to ask follow-up questions here. &#x200B; \* For those of you interested in a career in software development / Computer Science, go to r/cscareerquestions.

r/engineering10 upvotes

Weekly Career Discussion Thread (26 May 2025)

\# Intro &#x200B; Welcome to the weekly career discussion thread, where you can talk about all career & professional topics. Topics may include: &#x200B; \* Professional career guidance & questions; e.g. job hunting advice, job offers comparisons, how to network &#x200B; \* Educational guidance & questions; e.g. what engineering discipline to major in, which university is good, &#x200B; \* Feedback on your résumé, CV, cover letter, etc. &#x200B; \* The job market, compensation, relocation, and other topics on the economics of engineering. &#x200B; \> \[Archive of past threads](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22weekly+discussion%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all) &#x200B; \--- &#x200B; \## Guidelines &#x200B; 1. \*\*Before asking any questions, consult \[the AskEngineers wiki.](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq)\*\* There are detailed answers to common questions on: \* Job compensation \* Cost of Living adjustments \* Advice for how to decide on an engineering major \* How to choose which university to attend &#x200B; 1. Most subreddit rules still apply and will be enforced, especially R7 and R9 (with the obvious exceptions of R1 and R3) &#x200B; 1. Job POSTINGS must go into the latest \[\*\*Monthly Hiring Thread.\*\*\]((https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22hiring+thread%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all)) Any that are posted here will be removed, and you'll be kindly redirected to the hiring thread. &#x200B; 1. \*\*Do not request interviews in this thread!\*\* If you need to interview an engineer for your school assignment, use the list in the sidebar. &#x200B; \## Resources &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers wiki](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq) &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers Quarterly Salary Survey\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/search/?q=flair%3A%22salary+survey%22&include_over_18=on&restrict_sr=on&t=all&sort=new) &#x200B; \* \*\*For students:\*\* \[\*"What's your average day like as an engineer?"\*\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/wiki/faq#wiki_what.27s_your_average_day_like_as_an_engineer.3F) We recommend that you spend an hour or so reading about what engineers actually do at work. This will help you make a more informed decision on which major to choose, or at least give you enough info to ask follow-up questions here. &#x200B; \* For those of you interested in a career in software development / Computer Science, go to r/cscareerquestions.

r/engineering10 upvotes

Weekly Career Discussion Thread (11 Aug 2025)

\# Intro Welcome to the weekly career discussion thread, where you can talk about all career & professional topics. Topics may include: \* Professional career guidance & questions; e.g. job hunting advice, job offers comparisons, how to network \* Educational guidance & questions; e.g. what engineering discipline to major in, which university is good, \* Feedback on your résumé, CV, cover letter, etc. \* The job market, compensation, relocation, and other topics on the economics of engineering. \> \[Archive of past threads\](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22weekly+discussion%22&restrict\_sr=on&sort=new&t=all) \--- \## Guidelines 1. \*\*Before asking any questions, consult \[the AskEngineers wiki.\](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq)\*\* There are detailed answers to common questions on: \* Job compensation \* Cost of Living adjustments \* Advice for how to decide on an engineering major \* How to choose which university to attend 1. Most subreddit rules still apply and will be enforced, especially R7 and R9 (with the obvious exceptions of R1 and R3) 1. Job POSTINGS must go into the latest \[\*\*Monthly Hiring Thread.\*\*\]((https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22hiring+thread%22&restrict\_sr=on&sort=new&t=all)) Any that are posted here will be removed, and you'll be kindly redirected to the hiring thread. 1. \*\*Do not request interviews in this thread!\*\* If you need to interview an engineer for your school assignment, use the list in the sidebar. \## Resources \* \[The AskEngineers wiki\](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq) \* \[The AskEngineers Quarterly Salary Survey\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/search/?q=flair%3A%22salary+survey%22&include\_over\_18=on&restrict\_sr=on&t=all&sort=new) \* \*\*For students:\*\* \[\*"What's your average day like as an engineer?"\*\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/wiki/faq#wiki\_what.27s\_your\_average\_day\_like\_as\_an\_engineer.3F) We recommend that you spend an hour or so reading about what engineers actually do at work. This will help you make a more informed decision on which major to choose, or at least give you enough info to ask follow-up questions here. \* For those of you interested in a career in software development / Computer Science, go to r/cscareerquestions.

r/engineering10 upvotes

Weekly Career Discussion Thread (15 Dec 2025)

\# Intro Welcome to the weekly career discussion thread, where you can talk about all career & professional topics. Topics may include: \* Professional career guidance & questions; e.g. job hunting advice, job offers comparisons, how to network \* Educational guidance & questions; e.g. what engineering discipline to major in, which university is good, \* Feedback on your résumé, CV, cover letter, etc. \* The job market, compensation, relocation, and other topics on the economics of engineering. \> \[Archive of past threads\](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22weekly+discussion%22&restrict\_sr=on&sort=new&t=all) \--- \## Guidelines 1. \*\*Before asking any questions, consult \[the AskEngineers wiki.\](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq)\*\* There are detailed answers to common questions on: \* Job compensation \* Cost of Living adjustments \* Advice for how to decide on an engineering major \* How to choose which university to attend 1. Most subreddit rules still apply and will be enforced, especially R7 and R9 (with the obvious exceptions of R1 and R3) 1. Job POSTINGS must go into the latest \[\*\*Monthly Hiring Thread.\*\*\]((https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22hiring+thread%22&restrict\_sr=on&sort=new&t=all)) Any that are posted here will be removed, and you'll be kindly redirected to the hiring thread. 1. \*\*Do not request interviews in this thread!\*\* If you need to interview an engineer for your school assignment, use the list in the sidebar. \## Resources \* \[The AskEngineers wiki\](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq) \* \[The AskEngineers Quarterly Salary Survey\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/search/?q=flair%3A%22salary+survey%22&include\_over\_18=on&restrict\_sr=on&t=all&sort=new) \* \*\*For students:\*\* \[\*"What's your average day like as an engineer?"\*\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/wiki/faq#wiki\_what.27s\_your\_average\_day\_like\_as\_an\_engineer.3F) We recommend that you spend an hour or so reading about what engineers actually do at work. This will help you make a more informed decision on which major to choose, or at least give you enough info to ask follow-up questions here. \* For those of you interested in a career in software development / Computer Science, go to r/cscareerquestions.

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Weekly Career Discussion Thread (17 Feb 2025)

\# Intro &#x200B; Welcome to the weekly career discussion thread, where you can talk about all career & professional topics. Topics may include: &#x200B; \* Professional career guidance & questions; e.g. job hunting advice, job offers comparisons, how to network &#x200B; \* Educational guidance & questions; e.g. what engineering discipline to major in, which university is good, &#x200B; \* Feedback on your résumé, CV, cover letter, etc. &#x200B; \* The job market, compensation, relocation, and other topics on the economics of engineering. &#x200B; \> \[Archive of past threads](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22weekly+discussion%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all) &#x200B; \--- &#x200B; \## Guidelines &#x200B; 1. \*\*Before asking any questions, consult \[the AskEngineers wiki.](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq)\*\* There are detailed answers to common questions on: \* Job compensation \* Cost of Living adjustments \* Advice for how to decide on an engineering major \* How to choose which university to attend &#x200B; 1. Most subreddit rules still apply and will be enforced, especially R7 and R9 (with the obvious exceptions of R1 and R3) &#x200B; 1. Job POSTINGS must go into the latest \[\*\*Monthly Hiring Thread.\*\*\]((https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22hiring+thread%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all)) Any that are posted here will be removed, and you'll be kindly redirected to the hiring thread. &#x200B; 1. \*\*Do not request interviews in this thread!\*\* If you need to interview an engineer for your school assignment, use the list in the sidebar. &#x200B; \## Resources &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers wiki](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq) &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers Quarterly Salary Survey\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/search/?q=flair%3A%22salary+survey%22&include_over_18=on&restrict_sr=on&t=all&sort=new) &#x200B; \* \*\*For students:\*\* \[\*"What's your average day like as an engineer?"\*\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/wiki/faq#wiki_what.27s_your_average_day_like_as_an_engineer.3F) We recommend that you spend an hour or so reading about what engineers actually do at work. This will help you make a more informed decision on which major to choose, or at least give you enough info to ask follow-up questions here. &#x200B; \* For those of you interested in a career in software development / Computer Science, go to r/cscareerquestions.

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Weekly Career Discussion Thread (30 Jun 2025)

\# Intro &#x200B; Welcome to the weekly career discussion thread, where you can talk about all career & professional topics. Topics may include: &#x200B; \* Professional career guidance & questions; e.g. job hunting advice, job offers comparisons, how to network &#x200B; \* Educational guidance & questions; e.g. what engineering discipline to major in, which university is good, &#x200B; \* Feedback on your résumé, CV, cover letter, etc. &#x200B; \* The job market, compensation, relocation, and other topics on the economics of engineering. &#x200B; \> \[Archive of past threads](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22weekly+discussion%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all) &#x200B; \--- &#x200B; \## Guidelines &#x200B; 1. \*\*Before asking any questions, consult \[the AskEngineers wiki.](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq)\*\* There are detailed answers to common questions on: \* Job compensation \* Cost of Living adjustments \* Advice for how to decide on an engineering major \* How to choose which university to attend &#x200B; 1. Most subreddit rules still apply and will be enforced, especially R7 and R9 (with the obvious exceptions of R1 and R3) &#x200B; 1. Job POSTINGS must go into the latest \[\*\*Monthly Hiring Thread.\*\*\]((https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22hiring+thread%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all)) Any that are posted here will be removed, and you'll be kindly redirected to the hiring thread. &#x200B; 1. \*\*Do not request interviews in this thread!\*\* If you need to interview an engineer for your school assignment, use the list in the sidebar. &#x200B; \## Resources &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers wiki](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq) &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers Quarterly Salary Survey\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/search/?q=flair%3A%22salary+survey%22&include_over_18=on&restrict_sr=on&t=all&sort=new) &#x200B; \* \*\*For students:\*\* \[\*"What's your average day like as an engineer?"\*\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/wiki/faq#wiki_what.27s_your_average_day_like_as_an_engineer.3F) We recommend that you spend an hour or so reading about what engineers actually do at work. This will help you make a more informed decision on which major to choose, or at least give you enough info to ask follow-up questions here. &#x200B; \* For those of you interested in a career in software development / Computer Science, go to r/cscareerquestions.

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Weekly Career Discussion Thread (27 Jan 2025)

\# Intro &#x200B; Welcome to the weekly career discussion thread, where you can talk about all career & professional topics. Topics may include: &#x200B; \* Professional career guidance & questions; e.g. job hunting advice, job offers comparisons, how to network &#x200B; \* Educational guidance & questions; e.g. what engineering discipline to major in, which university is good, &#x200B; \* Feedback on your résumé, CV, cover letter, etc. &#x200B; \* The job market, compensation, relocation, and other topics on the economics of engineering. &#x200B; \> \[Archive of past threads](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22weekly+discussion%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all) &#x200B; \--- &#x200B; \## Guidelines &#x200B; 1. \*\*Before asking any questions, consult \[the AskEngineers wiki.](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq)\*\* There are detailed answers to common questions on: \* Job compensation \* Cost of Living adjustments \* Advice for how to decide on an engineering major \* How to choose which university to attend &#x200B; 1. Most subreddit rules still apply and will be enforced, especially R7 and R9 (with the obvious exceptions of R1 and R3) &#x200B; 1. Job POSTINGS must go into the latest \[\*\*Monthly Hiring Thread.\*\*\]((https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22hiring+thread%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all)) Any that are posted here will be removed, and you'll be kindly redirected to the hiring thread. &#x200B; 1. \*\*Do not request interviews in this thread!\*\* If you need to interview an engineer for your school assignment, use the list in the sidebar. &#x200B; \## Resources &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers wiki](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq) &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers Quarterly Salary Survey\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/search/?q=flair%3A%22salary+survey%22&include_over_18=on&restrict_sr=on&t=all&sort=new) &#x200B; \* \*\*For students:\*\* \[\*"What's your average day like as an engineer?"\*\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/wiki/faq#wiki_what.27s_your_average_day_like_as_an_engineer.3F) We recommend that you spend an hour or so reading about what engineers actually do at work. This will help you make a more informed decision on which major to choose, or at least give you enough info to ask follow-up questions here. &#x200B; \* For those of you interested in a career in software development / Computer Science, go to r/cscareerquestions.

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Weekly Career Discussion Thread (01 Sep 2025)

\# Intro Welcome to the weekly career discussion thread, where you can talk about all career & professional topics. Topics may include: \* Professional career guidance & questions; e.g. job hunting advice, job offers comparisons, how to network \* Educational guidance & questions; e.g. what engineering discipline to major in, which university is good, \* Feedback on your résumé, CV, cover letter, etc. \* The job market, compensation, relocation, and other topics on the economics of engineering. \> \[Archive of past threads\](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22weekly+discussion%22&restrict\_sr=on&sort=new&t=all) \--- \## Guidelines 1. \*\*Before asking any questions, consult \[the AskEngineers wiki.\](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq)\*\* There are detailed answers to common questions on: \* Job compensation \* Cost of Living adjustments \* Advice for how to decide on an engineering major \* How to choose which university to attend 1. Most subreddit rules still apply and will be enforced, especially R7 and R9 (with the obvious exceptions of R1 and R3) 1. Job POSTINGS must go into the latest \[\*\*Monthly Hiring Thread.\*\*\]((https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22hiring+thread%22&restrict\_sr=on&sort=new&t=all)) Any that are posted here will be removed, and you'll be kindly redirected to the hiring thread. 1. \*\*Do not request interviews in this thread!\*\* If you need to interview an engineer for your school assignment, use the list in the sidebar. \## Resources \* \[The AskEngineers wiki\](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq) \* \[The AskEngineers Quarterly Salary Survey\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/search/?q=flair%3A%22salary+survey%22&include\_over\_18=on&restrict\_sr=on&t=all&sort=new) \* \*\*For students:\*\* \[\*"What's your average day like as an engineer?"\*\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/wiki/faq#wiki\_what.27s\_your\_average\_day\_like\_as\_an\_engineer.3F) We recommend that you spend an hour or so reading about what engineers actually do at work. This will help you make a more informed decision on which major to choose, or at least give you enough info to ask follow-up questions here. \* For those of you interested in a career in software development / Computer Science, go to r/cscareerquestions.

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Weekly Career Discussion Thread (21 Jul 2025)

\# Intro &#x200B; Welcome to the weekly career discussion thread, where you can talk about all career & professional topics. Topics may include: &#x200B; \* Professional career guidance & questions; e.g. job hunting advice, job offers comparisons, how to network &#x200B; \* Educational guidance & questions; e.g. what engineering discipline to major in, which university is good, &#x200B; \* Feedback on your résumé, CV, cover letter, etc. &#x200B; \* The job market, compensation, relocation, and other topics on the economics of engineering. &#x200B; \> \[Archive of past threads](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22weekly+discussion%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all) &#x200B; \--- &#x200B; \## Guidelines &#x200B; 1. \*\*Before asking any questions, consult \[the AskEngineers wiki.](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq)\*\* There are detailed answers to common questions on: \* Job compensation \* Cost of Living adjustments \* Advice for how to decide on an engineering major \* How to choose which university to attend &#x200B; 1. Most subreddit rules still apply and will be enforced, especially R7 and R9 (with the obvious exceptions of R1 and R3) &#x200B; 1. Job POSTINGS must go into the latest \[\*\*Monthly Hiring Thread.\*\*\]((https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22hiring+thread%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all)) Any that are posted here will be removed, and you'll be kindly redirected to the hiring thread. &#x200B; 1. \*\*Do not request interviews in this thread!\*\* If you need to interview an engineer for your school assignment, use the list in the sidebar. &#x200B; \## Resources &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers wiki](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq) &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers Quarterly Salary Survey\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/search/?q=flair%3A%22salary+survey%22&include_over_18=on&restrict_sr=on&t=all&sort=new) &#x200B; \* \*\*For students:\*\* \[\*"What's your average day like as an engineer?"\*\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/wiki/faq#wiki_what.27s_your_average_day_like_as_an_engineer.3F) We recommend that you spend an hour or so reading about what engineers actually do at work. This will help you make a more informed decision on which major to choose, or at least give you enough info to ask follow-up questions here. &#x200B; \* For those of you interested in a career in software development / Computer Science, go to r/cscareerquestions.

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Weekly Career Discussion Thread (19 May 2025)

\# Intro &#x200B; Welcome to the weekly career discussion thread, where you can talk about all career & professional topics. Topics may include: &#x200B; \* Professional career guidance & questions; e.g. job hunting advice, job offers comparisons, how to network &#x200B; \* Educational guidance & questions; e.g. what engineering discipline to major in, which university is good, &#x200B; \* Feedback on your résumé, CV, cover letter, etc. &#x200B; \* The job market, compensation, relocation, and other topics on the economics of engineering. &#x200B; \> \[Archive of past threads](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22weekly+discussion%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all) &#x200B; \--- &#x200B; \## Guidelines &#x200B; 1. \*\*Before asking any questions, consult \[the AskEngineers wiki.](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq)\*\* There are detailed answers to common questions on: \* Job compensation \* Cost of Living adjustments \* Advice for how to decide on an engineering major \* How to choose which university to attend &#x200B; 1. Most subreddit rules still apply and will be enforced, especially R7 and R9 (with the obvious exceptions of R1 and R3) &#x200B; 1. Job POSTINGS must go into the latest \[\*\*Monthly Hiring Thread.\*\*\]((https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22hiring+thread%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all)) Any that are posted here will be removed, and you'll be kindly redirected to the hiring thread. &#x200B; 1. \*\*Do not request interviews in this thread!\*\* If you need to interview an engineer for your school assignment, use the list in the sidebar. &#x200B; \## Resources &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers wiki](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq) &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers Quarterly Salary Survey\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/search/?q=flair%3A%22salary+survey%22&include_over_18=on&restrict_sr=on&t=all&sort=new) &#x200B; \* \*\*For students:\*\* \[\*"What's your average day like as an engineer?"\*\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/wiki/faq#wiki_what.27s_your_average_day_like_as_an_engineer.3F) We recommend that you spend an hour or so reading about what engineers actually do at work. This will help you make a more informed decision on which major to choose, or at least give you enough info to ask follow-up questions here. &#x200B; \* For those of you interested in a career in software development / Computer Science, go to r/cscareerquestions.

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Weekly Career Discussion Thread (14 Jul 2025)

\# Intro &#x200B; Welcome to the weekly career discussion thread, where you can talk about all career & professional topics. Topics may include: &#x200B; \* Professional career guidance & questions; e.g. job hunting advice, job offers comparisons, how to network &#x200B; \* Educational guidance & questions; e.g. what engineering discipline to major in, which university is good, &#x200B; \* Feedback on your résumé, CV, cover letter, etc. &#x200B; \* The job market, compensation, relocation, and other topics on the economics of engineering. &#x200B; \> \[Archive of past threads](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22weekly+discussion%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all) &#x200B; \--- &#x200B; \## Guidelines &#x200B; 1. \*\*Before asking any questions, consult \[the AskEngineers wiki.](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq)\*\* There are detailed answers to common questions on: \* Job compensation \* Cost of Living adjustments \* Advice for how to decide on an engineering major \* How to choose which university to attend &#x200B; 1. Most subreddit rules still apply and will be enforced, especially R7 and R9 (with the obvious exceptions of R1 and R3) &#x200B; 1. Job POSTINGS must go into the latest \[\*\*Monthly Hiring Thread.\*\*\]((https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22hiring+thread%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all)) Any that are posted here will be removed, and you'll be kindly redirected to the hiring thread. &#x200B; 1. \*\*Do not request interviews in this thread!\*\* If you need to interview an engineer for your school assignment, use the list in the sidebar. &#x200B; \## Resources &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers wiki](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq) &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers Quarterly Salary Survey\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/search/?q=flair%3A%22salary+survey%22&include_over_18=on&restrict_sr=on&t=all&sort=new) &#x200B; \* \*\*For students:\*\* \[\*"What's your average day like as an engineer?"\*\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/wiki/faq#wiki_what.27s_your_average_day_like_as_an_engineer.3F) We recommend that you spend an hour or so reading about what engineers actually do at work. This will help you make a more informed decision on which major to choose, or at least give you enough info to ask follow-up questions here. &#x200B; \* For those of you interested in a career in software development / Computer Science, go to r/cscareerquestions.

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Weekly Career Discussion Thread (25 Aug 2025)

\# Intro Welcome to the weekly career discussion thread, where you can talk about all career & professional topics. Topics may include: \* Professional career guidance & questions; e.g. job hunting advice, job offers comparisons, how to network \* Educational guidance & questions; e.g. what engineering discipline to major in, which university is good, \* Feedback on your résumé, CV, cover letter, etc. \* The job market, compensation, relocation, and other topics on the economics of engineering. \> \[Archive of past threads\](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22weekly+discussion%22&restrict\_sr=on&sort=new&t=all) \--- \## Guidelines 1. \*\*Before asking any questions, consult \[the AskEngineers wiki.\](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq)\*\* There are detailed answers to common questions on: \* Job compensation \* Cost of Living adjustments \* Advice for how to decide on an engineering major \* How to choose which university to attend 1. Most subreddit rules still apply and will be enforced, especially R7 and R9 (with the obvious exceptions of R1 and R3) 1. Job POSTINGS must go into the latest \[\*\*Monthly Hiring Thread.\*\*\]((https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22hiring+thread%22&restrict\_sr=on&sort=new&t=all)) Any that are posted here will be removed, and you'll be kindly redirected to the hiring thread. 1. \*\*Do not request interviews in this thread!\*\* If you need to interview an engineer for your school assignment, use the list in the sidebar. \## Resources \* \[The AskEngineers wiki\](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq) \* \[The AskEngineers Quarterly Salary Survey\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/search/?q=flair%3A%22salary+survey%22&include\_over\_18=on&restrict\_sr=on&t=all&sort=new) \* \*\*For students:\*\* \[\*"What's your average day like as an engineer?"\*\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/wiki/faq#wiki\_what.27s\_your\_average\_day\_like\_as\_an\_engineer.3F) We recommend that you spend an hour or so reading about what engineers actually do at work. This will help you make a more informed decision on which major to choose, or at least give you enough info to ask follow-up questions here. \* For those of you interested in a career in software development / Computer Science, go to r/cscareerquestions.

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r/engineering's Monthly Dec 2025 Hiring Thread for Engineering Professionals

\# Overview If you have open positions at your company for engineering professionals (including technologists, fabricators, and technicians) and would like to hire from the r/engineering user base, please leave a comment detailing any open job listings at your company. We also encourage you to post internship positions as well. Many of our readers are currently in school or are just finishing their education. \*\*Please don't post duplicate comments.\*\* This thread uses Contest Mode, which means all comments are forced to randomly sort with scores hidden. If you want to advertise new positions, edit your original comment. \> \[Archive of old hiring threads\](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A"hiring+thread"&restrict\_sr=on&sort=relevance&t=all) \## Top-level comments are reserved for posting open positions! Any top-level comments that are not a job posting will be removed. However, I will sticky a comment that you can reply to for discussion related to hiring and the job market. Alternatively, feel free to use the \[Weekly Career Discussion Thread.\](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22Weekly+Discussion%22&sort=new&restrict\_sr=on&t=all) \## Feedback Feedback and suggestions are welcome, but please \[\*\*message us\*\*\](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%2Fr%2Fengineering&subject=Feedback:%20Quarterly%20Hiring%20Thread) instead of posting them here. \--- \# READ THIS BEFORE POSTING \## Rules & Guidelines 1. Include the company name in your post. 1. Include the geographic location of the position along with any availability of relocation assistance. 1. Clearly list citizenship, visa, and security clearance requirements. 1. State whether the position is \*Full Time\*, \*Part Time\*, or \*Contract\*. For contract positions, include the duration of the contract and any details on contract renewal / extension. 1. Mention if applicants should apply officially through HR, or directly through you. \* \*\*If you are a third-party recruiter, you must disclose this in your posting.\*\* \* While it's fine to link to the position on your company website, provide the important details in your comment. \* Please be thorough and upfront with the position details. Use of non-HR'd (realistic) requirements is encouraged. 1. \*\*Pandemic Guidelines:\*\* \* Include a percent estimate of how much of the job can be done remotely, OR how many days each week the hire is expected to show up at the office. \* Include your company's policy on Paid Time Off (PTO), Flex Time Off (FTO), and/or another form of sick leave compensation, and details of how much of this is available on Day 1 of employment. \*\*If this type of compensation is unknown or not provided, you must state this in your posting.\*\* \* Include what type of health insurance is offered by the company as part of the position. \## TEMPLATE \### !!! NOTE: Turn on Markdown Mode for this to format correctly! \*\*Company Name:\*\* \*\*Location (City/State/Country):\*\* \*\*Citizenship / Visa Requirement:\*\* \*\*Position Type:\*\* (Full Time / Part Time / Contract) \*\*Contract Duration (if applicable):\*\* \*\*Third-Party Recruiter:\*\* (YES / NO) \*\*Remote Work (%):\*\* \*\*Paid Time Off Policy:\*\* \*\*Health Insurance Compensation:\*\* \*\*Position Details:\*\* (Describe the details of the open position here. Please be thorough and upfront with the position details. Use of non-HR'd (realistic) requirements is encouraged.)

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r/engineering's Monthly May 2025 Hiring Thread for Engineering Professionals

\# Overview If you have open positions at your company for engineering professionals (including technologists, fabricators, and technicians) and would like to hire from the r/engineering user base, please leave a comment detailing any open job listings at your company. &#x200B; &#x200B; We also encourage you to post internship positions as well. Many of our readers are currently in school or are just finishing their education. &#x200B; \*\*Please don't post duplicate comments.\*\* This thread uses Contest Mode, which means all comments are forced to randomly sort with scores hidden. If you want to advertise new positions, edit your original comment. &#x200B; \> \[Archive of old hiring threads](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A"hiring+thread"&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance&t=all) &#x200B; \## Top-level comments are reserved for posting open positions! &#x200B; Any top-level comments that are not a job posting will be removed. However, I will sticky a comment that you can reply to for discussion related to hiring and the job market. Alternatively, feel free to use the \[Weekly Career Discussion Thread.\](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22Weekly+Discussion%22&sort=new&restrict_sr=on&t=all) &#x200B; \## Feedback &#x200B; Feedback and suggestions are welcome, but please \[\*\*message us\*\*\](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%2Fr%2Fengineering&subject=Feedback:%20Quarterly%20Hiring%20Thread) instead of posting them here. &#x200B; \--- &#x200B; \# READ THIS BEFORE POSTING &#x200B; \## Rules & Guidelines &#x200B; 1. Include the company name in your post. &#x200B; 1. Include the geographic location of the position along with any availability of relocation assistance. &#x200B; 1. Clearly list citizenship, visa, and security clearance requirements. &#x200B; 1. State whether the position is \*Full Time\*, \*Part Time\*, or \*Contract\*. For contract positions, include the duration of the contract and any details on contract renewal / extension. &#x200B; 1. Mention if applicants should apply officially through HR, or directly through you. \* \*\*If you are a third-party recruiter, you must disclose this in your posting.\*\* \* While it's fine to link to the position on your company website, provide the important details in your comment. \* Please be thorough and upfront with the position details. Use of non-HR'd (realistic) requirements is encouraged. &#x200B; 1. \*\*Pandemic Guidelines:\*\* \* Include a percent estimate of how much of the job can be done remotely, OR how many days each week the hire is expected to show up at the office. \* Include your company's policy on Paid Time Off (PTO), Flex Time Off (FTO), and/or another form of sick leave compensation, and details of how much of this is available on Day 1 of employment. \*\*If this type of compensation is unknown or not provided, you must state this in your posting.\*\* \* Include what type of health insurance is offered by the company as part of the position. &#x200B; \## TEMPLATE &#x200B; \### !!! NOTE: Turn on Markdown Mode for this to format correctly! &#x200B; \*\*Company Name:\*\* &#x200B; \*\*Location (City/State/Country):\*\* &#x200B; \*\*Citizenship / Visa Requirement:\*\* &#x200B; \*\*Position Type:\*\* (Full Time / Part Time / Contract) &#x200B; \*\*Contract Duration (if applicable):\*\* &#x200B; \*\*Third-Party Recruiter:\*\* (YES / NO) &#x200B; \*\*Remote Work (%):\*\* &#x200B; \*\*Paid Time Off Policy:\*\* &#x200B; \*\*Health Insurance Compensation:\*\* &#x200B; \*\*Position Details:\*\* &#x200B; (Describe the details of the open position here. Please be thorough and upfront with the position details. Use of non-HR'd (realistic) requirements is encouraged.)

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Weekly Career Discussion Thread (10 Mar 2025)

\# Intro &#x200B; Welcome to the weekly career discussion thread, where you can talk about all career & professional topics. Topics may include: &#x200B; \* Professional career guidance & questions; e.g. job hunting advice, job offers comparisons, how to network &#x200B; \* Educational guidance & questions; e.g. what engineering discipline to major in, which university is good, &#x200B; \* Feedback on your résumé, CV, cover letter, etc. &#x200B; \* The job market, compensation, relocation, and other topics on the economics of engineering. &#x200B; \> \[Archive of past threads](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22weekly+discussion%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all) &#x200B; \--- &#x200B; \## Guidelines &#x200B; 1. \*\*Before asking any questions, consult \[the AskEngineers wiki.](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq)\*\* There are detailed answers to common questions on: \* Job compensation \* Cost of Living adjustments \* Advice for how to decide on an engineering major \* How to choose which university to attend &#x200B; 1. Most subreddit rules still apply and will be enforced, especially R7 and R9 (with the obvious exceptions of R1 and R3) &#x200B; 1. Job POSTINGS must go into the latest \[\*\*Monthly Hiring Thread.\*\*\]((https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22hiring+thread%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all)) Any that are posted here will be removed, and you'll be kindly redirected to the hiring thread. &#x200B; 1. \*\*Do not request interviews in this thread!\*\* If you need to interview an engineer for your school assignment, use the list in the sidebar. &#x200B; \## Resources &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers wiki](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq) &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers Quarterly Salary Survey\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/search/?q=flair%3A%22salary+survey%22&include_over_18=on&restrict_sr=on&t=all&sort=new) &#x200B; \* \*\*For students:\*\* \[\*"What's your average day like as an engineer?"\*\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/wiki/faq#wiki_what.27s_your_average_day_like_as_an_engineer.3F) We recommend that you spend an hour or so reading about what engineers actually do at work. This will help you make a more informed decision on which major to choose, or at least give you enough info to ask follow-up questions here. &#x200B; \* For those of you interested in a career in software development / Computer Science, go to r/cscareerquestions.

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Weekly Career Discussion Thread (17 Nov 2025)

\# Intro Welcome to the weekly career discussion thread, where you can talk about all career & professional topics. Topics may include: \* Professional career guidance & questions; e.g. job hunting advice, job offers comparisons, how to network \* Educational guidance & questions; e.g. what engineering discipline to major in, which university is good, \* Feedback on your résumé, CV, cover letter, etc. \* The job market, compensation, relocation, and other topics on the economics of engineering. \> \[Archive of past threads\](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22weekly+discussion%22&restrict\_sr=on&sort=new&t=all) \--- \## Guidelines 1. \*\*Before asking any questions, consult \[the AskEngineers wiki.\](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq)\*\* There are detailed answers to common questions on: \* Job compensation \* Cost of Living adjustments \* Advice for how to decide on an engineering major \* How to choose which university to attend 1. Most subreddit rules still apply and will be enforced, especially R7 and R9 (with the obvious exceptions of R1 and R3) 1. Job POSTINGS must go into the latest \[\*\*Monthly Hiring Thread.\*\*\]((https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22hiring+thread%22&restrict\_sr=on&sort=new&t=all)) Any that are posted here will be removed, and you'll be kindly redirected to the hiring thread. 1. \*\*Do not request interviews in this thread!\*\* If you need to interview an engineer for your school assignment, use the list in the sidebar. \## Resources \* \[The AskEngineers wiki\](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq) \* \[The AskEngineers Quarterly Salary Survey\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/search/?q=flair%3A%22salary+survey%22&include\_over\_18=on&restrict\_sr=on&t=all&sort=new) \* \*\*For students:\*\* \[\*"What's your average day like as an engineer?"\*\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/wiki/faq#wiki\_what.27s\_your\_average\_day\_like\_as\_an\_engineer.3F) We recommend that you spend an hour or so reading about what engineers actually do at work. This will help you make a more informed decision on which major to choose, or at least give you enough info to ask follow-up questions here. \* For those of you interested in a career in software development / Computer Science, go to r/cscareerquestions.

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Weekly Career Discussion Thread (23 Jun 2025)

\# Intro &#x200B; Welcome to the weekly career discussion thread, where you can talk about all career & professional topics. Topics may include: &#x200B; \* Professional career guidance & questions; e.g. job hunting advice, job offers comparisons, how to network &#x200B; \* Educational guidance & questions; e.g. what engineering discipline to major in, which university is good, &#x200B; \* Feedback on your résumé, CV, cover letter, etc. &#x200B; \* The job market, compensation, relocation, and other topics on the economics of engineering. &#x200B; \> \[Archive of past threads](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22weekly+discussion%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all) &#x200B; \--- &#x200B; \## Guidelines &#x200B; 1. \*\*Before asking any questions, consult \[the AskEngineers wiki.](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq)\*\* There are detailed answers to common questions on: \* Job compensation \* Cost of Living adjustments \* Advice for how to decide on an engineering major \* How to choose which university to attend &#x200B; 1. Most subreddit rules still apply and will be enforced, especially R7 and R9 (with the obvious exceptions of R1 and R3) &#x200B; 1. Job POSTINGS must go into the latest \[\*\*Monthly Hiring Thread.\*\*\]((https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22hiring+thread%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all)) Any that are posted here will be removed, and you'll be kindly redirected to the hiring thread. &#x200B; 1. \*\*Do not request interviews in this thread!\*\* If you need to interview an engineer for your school assignment, use the list in the sidebar. &#x200B; \## Resources &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers wiki](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq) &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers Quarterly Salary Survey\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/search/?q=flair%3A%22salary+survey%22&include_over_18=on&restrict_sr=on&t=all&sort=new) &#x200B; \* \*\*For students:\*\* \[\*"What's your average day like as an engineer?"\*\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/wiki/faq#wiki_what.27s_your_average_day_like_as_an_engineer.3F) We recommend that you spend an hour or so reading about what engineers actually do at work. This will help you make a more informed decision on which major to choose, or at least give you enough info to ask follow-up questions here. &#x200B; \* For those of you interested in a career in software development / Computer Science, go to r/cscareerquestions.

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Weekly Career Discussion Thread (20 Jan 2025)

\# Intro &#x200B; Welcome to the weekly career discussion thread, where you can talk about all career & professional topics. Topics may include: &#x200B; \* Professional career guidance & questions; e.g. job hunting advice, job offers comparisons, how to network &#x200B; \* Educational guidance & questions; e.g. what engineering discipline to major in, which university is good, &#x200B; \* Feedback on your résumé, CV, cover letter, etc. &#x200B; \* The job market, compensation, relocation, and other topics on the economics of engineering. &#x200B; \> \[Archive of past threads](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22weekly+discussion%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all) &#x200B; \--- &#x200B; \## Guidelines &#x200B; 1. \*\*Before asking any questions, consult \[the AskEngineers wiki.](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq)\*\* There are detailed answers to common questions on: \* Job compensation \* Cost of Living adjustments \* Advice for how to decide on an engineering major \* How to choose which university to attend &#x200B; 1. Most subreddit rules still apply and will be enforced, especially R7 and R9 (with the obvious exceptions of R1 and R3) &#x200B; 1. Job POSTINGS must go into the latest \[\*\*Monthly Hiring Thread.\*\*\]((https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22hiring+thread%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all)) Any that are posted here will be removed, and you'll be kindly redirected to the hiring thread. &#x200B; 1. \*\*Do not request interviews in this thread!\*\* If you need to interview an engineer for your school assignment, use the list in the sidebar. &#x200B; \## Resources &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers wiki](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq) &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers Quarterly Salary Survey\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/search/?q=flair%3A%22salary+survey%22&include_over_18=on&restrict_sr=on&t=all&sort=new) &#x200B; \* \*\*For students:\*\* \[\*"What's your average day like as an engineer?"\*\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/wiki/faq#wiki_what.27s_your_average_day_like_as_an_engineer.3F) We recommend that you spend an hour or so reading about what engineers actually do at work. This will help you make a more informed decision on which major to choose, or at least give you enough info to ask follow-up questions here. &#x200B; \* For those of you interested in a career in software development / Computer Science, go to r/cscareerquestions.

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Weekly Career Discussion Thread (03 Feb 2025)

\# Intro &#x200B; Welcome to the weekly career discussion thread, where you can talk about all career & professional topics. Topics may include: &#x200B; \* Professional career guidance & questions; e.g. job hunting advice, job offers comparisons, how to network &#x200B; \* Educational guidance & questions; e.g. what engineering discipline to major in, which university is good, &#x200B; \* Feedback on your résumé, CV, cover letter, etc. &#x200B; \* The job market, compensation, relocation, and other topics on the economics of engineering. &#x200B; \> \[Archive of past threads](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22weekly+discussion%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all) &#x200B; \--- &#x200B; \## Guidelines &#x200B; 1. \*\*Before asking any questions, consult \[the AskEngineers wiki.](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq)\*\* There are detailed answers to common questions on: \* Job compensation \* Cost of Living adjustments \* Advice for how to decide on an engineering major \* How to choose which university to attend &#x200B; 1. Most subreddit rules still apply and will be enforced, especially R7 and R9 (with the obvious exceptions of R1 and R3) &#x200B; 1. Job POSTINGS must go into the latest \[\*\*Monthly Hiring Thread.\*\*\]((https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22hiring+thread%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all)) Any that are posted here will be removed, and you'll be kindly redirected to the hiring thread. &#x200B; 1. \*\*Do not request interviews in this thread!\*\* If you need to interview an engineer for your school assignment, use the list in the sidebar. &#x200B; \## Resources &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers wiki](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq) &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers Quarterly Salary Survey\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/search/?q=flair%3A%22salary+survey%22&include_over_18=on&restrict_sr=on&t=all&sort=new) &#x200B; \* \*\*For students:\*\* \[\*"What's your average day like as an engineer?"\*\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/wiki/faq#wiki_what.27s_your_average_day_like_as_an_engineer.3F) We recommend that you spend an hour or so reading about what engineers actually do at work. This will help you make a more informed decision on which major to choose, or at least give you enough info to ask follow-up questions here. &#x200B; \* For those of you interested in a career in software development / Computer Science, go to r/cscareerquestions.

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Weekly Career Discussion Thread (02 Jun 2025)

\# Intro &#x200B; Welcome to the weekly career discussion thread, where you can talk about all career & professional topics. Topics may include: &#x200B; \* Professional career guidance & questions; e.g. job hunting advice, job offers comparisons, how to network &#x200B; \* Educational guidance & questions; e.g. what engineering discipline to major in, which university is good, &#x200B; \* Feedback on your résumé, CV, cover letter, etc. &#x200B; \* The job market, compensation, relocation, and other topics on the economics of engineering. &#x200B; \> \[Archive of past threads](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22weekly+discussion%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all) &#x200B; \--- &#x200B; \## Guidelines &#x200B; 1. \*\*Before asking any questions, consult \[the AskEngineers wiki.](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq)\*\* There are detailed answers to common questions on: \* Job compensation \* Cost of Living adjustments \* Advice for how to decide on an engineering major \* How to choose which university to attend &#x200B; 1. Most subreddit rules still apply and will be enforced, especially R7 and R9 (with the obvious exceptions of R1 and R3) &#x200B; 1. Job POSTINGS must go into the latest \[\*\*Monthly Hiring Thread.\*\*\]((https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22hiring+thread%22&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all)) Any that are posted here will be removed, and you'll be kindly redirected to the hiring thread. &#x200B; 1. \*\*Do not request interviews in this thread!\*\* If you need to interview an engineer for your school assignment, use the list in the sidebar. &#x200B; \## Resources &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers wiki](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq) &#x200B; \* \[The AskEngineers Quarterly Salary Survey\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/search/?q=flair%3A%22salary+survey%22&include_over_18=on&restrict_sr=on&t=all&sort=new) &#x200B; \* \*\*For students:\*\* \[\*"What's your average day like as an engineer?"\*\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/wiki/faq#wiki_what.27s_your_average_day_like_as_an_engineer.3F) We recommend that you spend an hour or so reading about what engineers actually do at work. This will help you make a more informed decision on which major to choose, or at least give you enough info to ask follow-up questions here. &#x200B; \* For those of you interested in a career in software development / Computer Science, go to r/cscareerquestions.

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Weekly Career Discussion Thread (08 Dec 2025)

\# Intro Welcome to the weekly career discussion thread, where you can talk about all career & professional topics. Topics may include: \* Professional career guidance & questions; e.g. job hunting advice, job offers comparisons, how to network \* Educational guidance & questions; e.g. what engineering discipline to major in, which university is good, \* Feedback on your résumé, CV, cover letter, etc. \* The job market, compensation, relocation, and other topics on the economics of engineering. \> \[Archive of past threads\](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22weekly+discussion%22&restrict\_sr=on&sort=new&t=all) \--- \## Guidelines 1. \*\*Before asking any questions, consult \[the AskEngineers wiki.\](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq)\*\* There are detailed answers to common questions on: \* Job compensation \* Cost of Living adjustments \* Advice for how to decide on an engineering major \* How to choose which university to attend 1. Most subreddit rules still apply and will be enforced, especially R7 and R9 (with the obvious exceptions of R1 and R3) 1. Job POSTINGS must go into the latest \[\*\*Monthly Hiring Thread.\*\*\]((https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/search?q=flair%3A%22hiring+thread%22&restrict\_sr=on&sort=new&t=all)) Any that are posted here will be removed, and you'll be kindly redirected to the hiring thread. 1. \*\*Do not request interviews in this thread!\*\* If you need to interview an engineer for your school assignment, use the list in the sidebar. \## Resources \* \[The AskEngineers wiki\](https://new.reddit.com/r/askengineers/wiki/faq) \* \[The AskEngineers Quarterly Salary Survey\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/search/?q=flair%3A%22salary+survey%22&include\_over\_18=on&restrict\_sr=on&t=all&sort=new) \* \*\*For students:\*\* \[\*"What's your average day like as an engineer?"\*\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/wiki/faq#wiki\_what.27s\_your\_average\_day\_like\_as\_an\_engineer.3F) We recommend that you spend an hour or so reading about what engineers actually do at work. This will help you make a more informed decision on which major to choose, or at least give you enough info to ask follow-up questions here. \* For those of you interested in a career in software development / Computer Science, go to r/cscareerquestions.

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Young Engineers: do not trust AI at its word.

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Finally landed my first engineering job after graduating ~4 years ago!

Would you rather design this tiny fuel door of a B2 or lead the entire design of a consumer product?

I scraped 4,450 ME jobs from corporate websites

SpaceX just asked me for my SAT score

My grandpa was a coke oven engineer, and I've transcribed his final invention from hospice

Why do people in the UK not know what engineering is?

5 month job search after lay off

Is it just me or did college not prepare you at all for “actual” engineering

Is anyone else terrified for the future of our profession?

PSA: Fuck Manufacturing

Anyone else feel uncomfortable/patronized when people compliment how smart you are for being an engineer?

Is this real? What the heck happened to Mechanical Engineering in the last 10 or so years?

How do US companies afford to pay mechanical engineers 8k to 10k a month?

Warning about recruiters

Mechanical Engineering is still a great major! &amp; It has changed my life.

“Western Executives are visiting China and coming back terrified”; does manufacturing (and by extension, much of the ME work many of us do) have any future in the West?

Looking to create a trapdoor style stair cover.

Finally doubled my initial salary!

Job Search after getting laid off

Is this a joke?

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A counter to the pessimism on salary and career progression &amp; Some practical advice

Does Glassdoor lie/massively inflate salaries for Mech E’s? I tried to use their numbers in an interview and got told I was “comically over the mark”

Salary trend for ME’s?

Thinking of quitting my $250k/yr engineering job to travel full time—career suicide?

Am I going insane or are there absolutely no jobs for early career (5-6 years of experience) engineers?

27 y/o Mech Eng Bachelor’s struggling to get an actual engineering job - have I screwed myself?

Is the job market just abysmal right now?

Does Mechanical Engineering have a lower “skill gap” than other professions? What explains the low salary ceiling in our profession?

A rant.

Lost all confidence in myself as a result of this career—has this happened to anyone else?

Anyone else dislike hardware, getting their hands dirty, etc

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Senior ME struggling to mentor junior ME.

Stuck as a Manufacturing Engineer, Is there light at the end of the tunnel?

Why are manufacturers still asking basic RFQ questions 3 months later?

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Lost passion.

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Mechanical Engineers who left to pursue another career path - how did it work out for you?

6.5 years into my career, making $77,000, completely tired and burnt out, should I just quit?

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Does anyone else feel like they waste their time because half the things they do even if requested get pushed aside?

Do you ever “go along” with projects you don’t think will pan out, just to keep the engagement from the client?

How do you guys organize all the daily tiny fires that come up?

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Mechanical Engineering is still a great major! & It has changed my life.

A counter to the pessimism on salary and career progression & Some practical advice