Market slice

Mechanical Engineer jobs in San Jose

1,011 open Mechanical Engineer jobs in San Jose. Median salary $177k, 4.8% remote, 34 posted this week.

Open roles

1,011

34 new this week

Median salary

$177k

2.7% disclose pay

Remote share

4.8%

of all openings

Median age of posting

74d

31.3% older than 60d

Freshness

How old these postings are

just posted74d median90d+

Age of posting	Share
Posted in the last 7 days	14.3%
Median age	74 days
Older than 60 days	31.3%

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

$80k$306k

Based on 27 postings that disclose pay — 2.7% 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	$140,000
Median	$177,000
75th	$219,500
90th	$269,000

Demand

Who is hiring and what they ask for

Top companies

Top technologies

72.0%

65.8%

59.6%

53.4%

47.2%

41.0%

34.8%

28.6%

Most-asked skills

Distributed systems

58.0%

Coaching

52.6%

Communication

47.2%

Roadmapping

41.8%

Vendor management

36.4%

Data modelling

31.0%

Cross-functional leadership

25.6%

Stakeholder management

20.2%

Composition

How the market splits

Work arrangement

Remote

4.8%

Hybrid

31.2%

In Person

64.0%

Top locations

San Jose

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

313

hiring in this slice

Posted last 7d

14.3%

of the cohort

Salary disclosed

2.7%

Meridian Software · San Jose, California, United States

Not disclosed

Hybrid tech software it 15d ago

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FAQ

Questions people ask

How many mechanical engineer jobs are open in San Jose?

We track mechanical engineer openings published in San Jose, 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 Jose?

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 1,011 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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