Market slice

Mechanical Engineer jobs in San Diego

1,090 open Mechanical Engineer jobs in San Diego. Median salary $140k, 6.2% remote, 72 posted this week.

Open roles

1,090

72 new this week

Median salary

$140k

8.6% disclose pay

Remote share

6.2%

of all openings

Median age of posting

52d

47.0% older than 60d

Freshness

How old these postings are

just posted52d median90d+

Age of posting	Share
Posted in the last 7 days	9.2%
Median age	52 days
Older than 60 days	47.0%

Age counts days since the employer published the posting. Around a third of sources publish only a coarse date such as “30+ days ago”, so the older end of this distribution is less precise than the recent end. It is the most-cited signal that a role may not be actively filled — a signal, not a verdict.

Pay

Salary distribution

$63k$242k

Based on 94 postings that disclose pay — 8.6% of this slice.

Fewer than one posting in six publishes a range here, and the ones that do are not a random sample. Treat these figures as indicative of the disclosing minority, not of the market.

Percentile	Salary
25th	$110,500
Median	$140,000
75th	$173,500
90th	$213,000

Demand

Who is hiring and what they ask for

Top companies

Lakeshore Hospitality

102

Top technologies

72.0%

65.8%

59.6%

53.4%

47.2%

41.0%

34.8%

28.6%

Most-asked skills

Stakeholder management

58.0%

Forecasting

52.6%

Cross-functional leadership

47.2%

Data modelling

41.8%

Negotiation

36.4%

Communication

31.0%

Budgeting

25.6%

Distributed systems

20.2%

Composition

How the market splits

Work arrangement

Remote

6.2%

Hybrid

52.2%

In Person

41.6%

Top locations

San Diego

34.0%

United States

30.4%

Canada

26.8%

United Kingdom

23.2%

Ireland

19.6%

Germany

16.0%

France

12.4%

Netherlands

8.8%

Employers

338

hiring in this slice

Posted last 7d

9.2%

of the cohort

Salary disclosed

8.6%

of postings publish pay

Live openings

Latest Mechanical Engineer jobs in San Diego

Staff Mechanical Engineer

Lakeshore Hospitality · San Diego, California, United States

Not disclosed

Remote hospitality travel 95d ago

Mechanical Engineer

Aperture Labs · San Diego, California, United States

Not disclosed

In Person 55d ago

Mechanical Engineer

Northwind Systems · San Diego, California, United States

$117k – $198kper year

In Person tech software it 75d ago

Staff Mechanical Engineer

Kestrel Health · San Diego, California, United States

Not disclosed

In Person 85d ago

Lead Mechanical Engineer

Brightline Retail · San Diego, California, United States

Not disclosed

In Person Seniorretail Senior 64d ago Visa sponsored

Staff Mechanical Engineer

Solstice Biotech · San Diego, California, United States

Not disclosed

Hybrid 38d ago

Mechanical Engineer

Vantage Logistics · San Diego, California, United States

Not disclosed

Hybrid transport logistics 48d ago

Junior Mechanical Engineer

Cobalt Financial · San Diego, California, United States

Not disclosed

In Person Juniorfinance Junior 45d ago

Junior Mechanical Engineer

Fairmount Legal · San Diego, California, United States

Not disclosed

In Person Junior Junior 65d ago

Lead Mechanical Engineer

Beacon Robotics · San Diego, California, United States

Not disclosed

In Person Senior Senior 93d ago Visa sponsored

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FAQ

Questions people ask

How many mechanical engineer jobs are open in San Diego?

We track mechanical engineer openings published in San Diego, refreshed continuously. The count at the top of this page is the current total. Job postings read directly from company applicant tracking systems.

What does a mechanical engineer earn in San Diego?

The median advertised salary is shown above, alongside the 25th, 75th and 90th percentiles. Only postings that publish a salary are included, so the sample is smaller than the total number of openings.

How do I get this data through an API?

Every number on this page comes from one call to our jobs and insights endpoints. See the API documentation for the request shape and filters.

Figures cover 1,090 postings collected from public company career pages and applicant tracking systems, last recomputed 2026-09-02. “Posted N days ago” counts from the date the employer published the listing, not from when we first saw it. A posting that has been up for months is a common sign it is not being actively filled — though a long-lived listing is a signal, not a verdict. How we measure this →

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