What Principal Industrial Engineering Jobs Ask For
Across 1,346 open Principal Industrial Engineering postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are cad, automation, corrective-action.
Updated October 28, 2026
1,492 open Principal Industrial Engineering postings. The percentages below are measured over the 1,346 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| cad | 20% |
| automation | 20% |
| corrective-action | 18% |
| root-cause-analysis | 14% |
| ai | 13% |
| business-development | 13% |
| assembly | 12% |
| oracle | 12% |
| autocad | 10% |
| risk-assessment | 9% |
| python | 9% |
| cloud | 9% |
| sap | 8% |
| revit | 8% |
| six-sigma | 7% |
| fea | 7% |
| firmware | 7% |
| agile | 7% |
| solidworks | 6% |
| pcb | 6% |
| analytics | 6% |
| matlab | 6% |
| networking | 6% |
| bim | 5% |
| microsoft-project | 5% |
| cpp | 5% |
| ansys | 5% |
| design-for-manufacturing | 5% |
| itar | 5% |
| oscilloscope | 5% |
| plm | 5% |
| signal-integrity | 4% |
| technical-writing | 4% |
| accessibility | 4% |
| ethernet | 4% |
| process-improvement | 4% |
| prototyping | 4% |
| regulatory-compliance | 4% |
| teamcenter | 4% |
| nfpa | 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 Industrial Engineering levels
Most Industrial Engineering postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- automation 9,017
- autocad 7,170
- corrective-action 6,861
- cad 6,438
- root-cause-analysis 5,489
- ai 5,392
- assembly 4,866
- six-sigma 4,454
- python 3,218
- revit 2,900
- solidworks 2,708
- process-improvement 2,632