What Principal Industrial Engineering Jobs Ask For
Across 1,100 open Principal Industrial Engineering postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are automation, corrective-action, ai.
Updated October 9, 2026
1,283 open Principal Industrial Engineering postings. The percentages below are measured over the 1,100 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| automation | 27% |
| corrective-action | 20% |
| ai | 17% |
| root-cause-analysis | 17% |
| python | 13% |
| six-sigma | 13% |
| business-development | 11% |
| risk-assessment | 11% |
| cloud | 11% |
| analytics | 10% |
| assembly | 9% |
| agile | 9% |
| networking | 8% |
| cad | 8% |
| sap | 8% |
| process-improvement | 8% |
| cpp | 7% |
| api | 6% |
| iso-9001 | 6% |
| linux | 6% |
| stakeholder-management | 6% |
| scada | 6% |
| ethernet | 5% |
| as9100 | 5% |
| autocad | 5% |
| firmware | 5% |
| sql | 5% |
| oracle | 5% |
| aws | 5% |
| ci-cd | 5% |
| machine-learning | 5% |
| hmi | 5% |
| program-management | 5% |
| plc | 5% |
| test-automation | 5% |
| cybersecurity | 4% |
| matlab | 4% |
| technical-writing | 4% |
| java | 4% |
| regulatory-compliance | 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 14,222
- corrective-action 11,789
- root-cause-analysis 9,093
- autocad 8,735
- ai 6,491
- six-sigma 6,465
- cad 6,164
- assembly 5,578
- python 5,447
- process-improvement 4,600
- risk-assessment 4,146
- networking 3,656