Development engineer resume examples for 2025
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How to write a development engineer resume
Craft a resume summary statement
A well-written resume summary is basically an elevator pitch. You are summing up your skills and experience in a few sentences to wow recruiters, hiring managers, and decision makers into giving you an interview. Here are some tips to putting your best foot first with your resume summary:
Step 1: Mention your current job title or the role you're pursuing.
Step 2: Include your years of experience in development engineer-related roles. Consider adding relevant company and industry experience as relevant to the job listing.
Step 3: Highlight your greatest accomplishments. Here is your chance to make sure your biggest wins aren't buried in your resume.
Step 4: Again, keep it short. Your goal is to summarize your experience and highlight your accomplishments, not write a paragraph.
Hiring managers spend under a minute reviewing resumes on average. This means your summary needs to demonstrate your value quickly and show why you are the perfect fit for the development engineer position.Hi, I'm Zippi, your job search robot. Let me write a first draft of your summary statement.
List the right project manager skills
Many resumes are filtered out by hiring software before a human eye ever sees them. A robust Skills section can let recruiters (and bots) know you have the skills to do the job. Here is how to make the most of your skills section:
- You often need to include the exact keywords from the job description in your resume. Look at the job listing and consider which of the listed skills you have experience with, along with related skills.
- Include as many relevant hard skills and soft skills as possible from the listing.
- Use the most up to date and accurate terms. Don't forget to be specific.
Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a development engineer resume:
- Java
- Python
- Software Development
- JavaScript
- Lifecycle Management
- UI
- Project Management
- Debugging
- Linux
- Data Analysis
- API
- CAD
- Amazon Web Services
- Product Quality
- UL
- Windows
- CSS
- C
- C++
- Object Oriented Programming
- HTML
- XML
- User Interface
- Visualization
- Solidworks
- Jenkins
- Product Development
- Azure
- Technical Support
- Test Results
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How to structure your work experience
Your employment history is arguably one of the most important parts of your resume. It shows you have experience and foundation in your field to successfully master the development engineer position. Here is how to most effectively structure your work experience:
- List your most recent experience first, followed by earlier roles in reverse chronological order. Employers care about your most recent experience the most.
- Start with your job title, company name, city, and state on the left. Align dates in month and year format on the right-hand side.
- Include only recent, relevant jobs.
How to write development engineer experience bullet points
Your resume is your chance to show your biggest accomplishments. Don't just list your job responsibilities, instead take the opportunity to show why you're really good at what you do. Here is how you do that:
- Start with strong action verbs like managed, spearheaded, created, etc. Your goal is to show what you did and verbs will help demonstrate your contributions.
- Use numbers to quantify your achievements. Did you save time with a new report? Increase revenue? How large was the team you managed?
- Keep it concise. You're highlighting your achievements. Consider if all details you are sharing are relevant, or can be written more efficiently.
Here are great bullet points from development engineer resumes:
Work history example #1
Manufacturing Engineering Internship
Performance Bicycle
- Implemented lean manufacturing principles to reduce waste and increase floor moral and production through ergonomic and productivity kaizen events.
- Collaborated with employees to create P&ID and Flow Diagram (AutoCAD 2013) for two H-E-B manufacturing plants.
- Rolled newly developed application out to additional businesses and ensured cross training of resources to provide consistent business support of applications.
- Used SolidWorks to design parts and assemblies using solid modeling and surface modeling, and to create 2D drawings.
- Created guidelines/drawings and tonnage projections that improved communication between Chrysler's Body in white and manufacturing teams with material suppliers/ buyers.
Work history example #2
Development Engineer
Sands Regency
- Configured New York Lottery hardware and software requirement setup for test execution.
- Located within an office and manufacturing setting; comfortable with fully automated and semi-automated packaging equipment.
- Designed printed circuit board (PCB) drawings, and electrical parts using CADNETIX (schematic capture software).
- Tested and evaluated the performance of Thermal Reactor used in the preliminary stages of diffusion in Semiconductor Process.
- Deployed and maintained 800+ Linux-based content devices (HBO's) to schools.
Work history example #3
Engineer
Enercon Services
- Developed software tools in both Excel and MATLAB to calculate the stress from input loading conditions.
- Performed field support for multiple design modifications including Essential Service Water (ESW) Replacement, and Mid-Cycle 20 Outage
- Worked in multidisciplinary teams to complete PFMEA for advanced medical devices to determine product/process shortcomings and identify improvements.
- Used eclipse Integrated Development Environment.
- Designed and implemented special customer requested device usage reports in Java Web Application.
Work history example #4
Mechanical Engineer
General Electric
- Prepared timely and accurate technical reports for customer records and reference for future outages.
- Coordinated scheduling, root caused failures, and instituted design improvements through several program phases including full-scale production.
- Conducted economic and feasibility studies; generated detailed program plans, assessed program costs and scheduling requirements.
- Completed multiple six sigma projects that include product design, manufacturing and transactional processes.
- Prepared detailed schedule with itemized tasks.
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Add an education section to your resume
The education section should display your highest degree first.
Place your education section appropriately on your resume. If you graduated over 5 years ago, this section should be at the bottom of your resume. If you just graduated and lack relevant work experience, the education section should go to the top.
If you have a bachelor's or master's degree, do not list your high school education. If your graduation year is more than 15-20 years ago, it's better not to include dates in this section.
Here are some examples of good education entries from development engineer resumes:
Bachelor's Degree in mechanical engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
2015 - 2018
Highlight your development engineer certifications on your resume
If you have any additional certifications, add them to the certification section.
Include the full name of the certification, along with the name of the issuing organization and date of obtainment.
If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your development engineer resume:
- Engineer In Training Certification (EIT)
- Six Sigma Green Belt
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Certified Chemical Engineer (CCE)
- Certified Manager Certification (CM)
- Software Engineering Master Certification (SEMC)
- Certified Associate LabVIEW Developer
- Certified Six Sigma Greenbelt (CSSGB)