What Principal Industrial Engineering Jobs Ask For
Across 2,521 open Principal Industrial Engineering postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are automation, cad, business-development.
Updated November 3, 2026
3,104 open Principal Industrial Engineering postings. The percentages below are measured over the 2,521 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| automation | 18% |
| cad | 17% |
| business-development | 15% |
| corrective-action | 14% |
| root-cause-analysis | 12% |
| ai | 12% |
| assembly | 11% |
| autocad | 10% |
| python | 9% |
| risk-assessment | 9% |
| agile | 8% |
| cloud | 7% |
| firmware | 7% |
| six-sigma | 7% |
| revit | 6% |
| fea | 6% |
| oracle | 6% |
| stakeholder-management | 6% |
| matlab | 6% |
| bim | 6% |
| networking | 6% |
| solidworks | 5% |
| cpp | 5% |
| pcb | 5% |
| design-for-manufacturing | 5% |
| sap | 5% |
| ethernet | 5% |
| prototyping | 5% |
| oscilloscope | 4% |
| ansys | 4% |
| accessibility | 4% |
| analytics | 4% |
| nfpa | 4% |
| api | 4% |
| program-management | 4% |
| process-improvement | 4% |
| regulatory-compliance | 4% |
| technical-writing | 4% |
| hazop | 4% |
| scada | 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.
- autocad 22,239
- automation 21,019
- corrective-action 18,525
- cad 16,031
- root-cause-analysis 14,212
- ai 10,756
- assembly 10,596
- six-sigma 10,511
- revit 7,775
- python 7,482
- process-improvement 7,027
- solidworks 6,806