Most product development engineers list "product development," "cad," and "data analysis" as skills on their resumes. We go into more details on the most important product development engineer responsibilities here:
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After discovering the most helpful skills, we moved onto what kind of education might be helpful in becoming a product development engineer. We found that 75.2% of product development engineers have graduated with a bachelor's degree and 15.4% of people in this position have earned their master's degrees. While most product development engineers have a college degree, you may find it's also true that generally it's impossible to be successful in this career with only a high school degree. In fact, our research shows that one out of every nine product development engineers were not college graduates.
Those product development engineers who do attend college, typically earn either a mechanical engineering degree or a electrical engineering degree. Less commonly earned degrees for product development engineers include a chemical engineering degree or a biomedical engineering degree.
When you're ready to become a product development engineer, you might wonder which companies hire product development engineers. According to our research through product development engineer resumes, product development engineers are mostly hired by Masco, Berry Global, and Intel. Now is a good time to apply as Masco has 53 product development engineers job openings, and there are 48 at Berry Global and 48 at Intel.
Since salary is important to some product development engineers, it's good to note that they are figured to earn the highest salaries at Stripe, LinkedIn, and AT&T.; If you were to take a closer look at Stripe, you'd find that the average product development engineer salary is $116,093. Then at LinkedIn, product development engineers receive an average salary of $106,741, while the salary at AT&T; is $104,791.
View more details on product development engineer salaries across the United States.
If you earned a degree from the top 100 educational institutions in the United States, you might want to take a look at Ford Motor Company, Intel, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. These three companies have hired a significant number of product development engineers from these institutions.
The industries that product development engineers fulfill the most roles in are the manufacturing and insurance industries. But the highest product development engineer annual salary is in the technology industry, averaging $87,647. In the health care industry they make $82,436 and average about $82,298 in the automotive industry. In conclusion, product development engineers who work in the technology industry earn a 7.7% higher salary than product development engineers in the manufacturing industry.