What Principal Engineering Design Jobs Ask For
Across 275 open Principal Engineering Design postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are cad, automation, ai.
Updated October 28, 2026
293 open Principal Engineering Design postings. The percentages below are measured over the 275 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| cad | 30% |
| automation | 19% |
| ai | 17% |
| assembly | 17% |
| autocad | 17% |
| business-development | 15% |
| solidworks | 13% |
| corrective-action | 11% |
| matlab | 11% |
| ansys | 10% |
| root-cause-analysis | 9% |
| cmos | 9% |
| python | 9% |
| risk-assessment | 9% |
| fea | 8% |
| signal-integrity | 8% |
| design-for-manufacturing | 8% |
| sap | 7% |
| verilog | 7% |
| prototyping | 7% |
| serdes | 7% |
| agile | 6% |
| cadence-virtuoso | 6% |
| ethernet | 6% |
| firmware | 6% |
| pcie | 6% |
| revit | 6% |
| systemverilog | 6% |
| accessibility | 5% |
| pcb | 5% |
| itar | 5% |
| siemens-nx | 5% |
| machine-learning | 5% |
| plm | 5% |
| program-management | 5% |
| teamcenter | 5% |
| scada | 4% |
| bim | 4% |
| cloud | 4% |
| networking | 4% |
"Mentioned in" counts postings that name the skill anywhere — including as a nice-to-have — so treat it as the ceiling, not the bar.
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Across all Engineering Design levels
Most Engineering Design postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- cad 3,703
- autocad 2,835
- revit 1,600
- bim 1,265
- assembly 1,224
- ai 1,190
- solidworks 1,182
- automation 1,161
- microstation 623
- fea 617
- navisworks 552
- python 527