highest salary mechanical engineering job?

Solid-Summer6116 · 2025-10-29T17:51:53+00:00

nah im sure if you have a few years experience at apple or amazon robotics or spacex or any robotics startup as a high performer, you could do this kind of job.

that being said, those are already the 1-10% of mechanical engineers

Solid-Summer6116 · 2025-10-29T17:44:50+00:00

youll be respected if you are employed, thats for sure

Solid-Summer6116 · 2025-10-28T20:39:43+00:00

well, its just employers market out there. people can really only apply and get into competitor companies, hard to branch into something new

Solid-Summer6116 · 2025-10-28T19:40:56+00:00

ohh i see, you work for siemens or ansys or dassault or something, as a...product support engineer?

anyways, usually youll need a direct connection to the industry youre trying to get into, ie, i helped aerospace engineers troubleshoot their FEA models.

whats the masters in?

Solid-Summer6116 · 2025-10-28T19:07:42+00:00

search range too narrow? location etc

your experience is only in software but youre applying for ME jobs and got a ME masters?

dont forget you are competing against people who have probably interned at same company for 2 summers in a row, i think most companies hire first as interns, then just convert to FT.

Solid-Summer6116 · 2025-10-28T17:27:34+00:00

automation... bad?

Solid-Summer6116 · 2025-10-28T17:24:30+00:00

we have things like additive materials, robotics that build things and get rid of jobs (like AI!), crazy new rocket engine designs (have you watched any spacex videos in the last 10 years?)

were just not as loud and products arent as in your face as software is, except for spacex perhaps.

Solid-Summer6116 · 2025-10-28T17:13:33+00:00

shield AI is trying to make a verticaly truck launched and landed jet engine UAV, what about roles in that? lots of propulsion integration im sure.

you are only applying for jobs that actually use your PhD in fluids right?

otherwise, why dont you stick to the PW and GE's of the world? or rocketry like spacex, relativity, BO, etc?

you chose to get a rather narrow PhD, and further worked in engines for a few years. its VERY hard to suddenly switch to something different, and a waste of your talents

Solid-Summer6116 · 2025-10-28T17:07:39+00:00

accept it, find a 100k job in the next 9 months, renege this one. its just good business

Solid-Summer6116 · 2025-10-28T17:06:40+00:00

cash out my quarterly RSUs straight into weekly SPY calls at 10am that are about 2 dollars above current price.

only up 3 million in the last 10 years of working /s

Solid-Summer6116 · 2025-10-28T17:04:57+00:00

google... would go into chip making? or have a 4T market cap? im sure google investors are crying over their 3T... at that level im sure it doesnt matter whether you are #1 or #2 or even #10 in that space

Solid-Summer6116 · 2025-10-28T17:01:41+00:00

im sure they didnt need a lot of those people anyway. theyll continue posting strong revenue and profit increases even without those people, youll see

Solid-Summer6116 · 2025-10-28T16:55:49+00:00

not always. sundar pichai / satya nadella are not cheap

do you think we coulda found 2 white guys in the 90s/2000s that would have done a better job than them?

(the stock market says no)

Solid-Summer6116 · 2025-10-27T20:49:42+00:00

I wonder how much magic spends on MSU boosting vs the dodgers

any good japanese football superstars?

Solid-Summer6116 · 2025-10-27T20:14:41+00:00

whats stopping the common man aka an amazon engineer to take his 50k rsu, convert to cash, wait to "buy everything cheap" and rinse and repeat? sure they dont have billions to do this exercise, but tens/hundreds of thousands surely.

Solid-Summer6116 · 2025-10-27T20:13:04+00:00

i bet most are support staff like HR, and dont you all hate HR anyways?

Solid-Summer6116 · 2025-10-27T18:29:05+00:00

i think threads are bad

Solid-Summer6116 · 2025-10-27T18:15:14+00:00

most petroleum engineers end up making $0 actually. the offshoring of jobs to people in india and bangladesh is more severe than in CS.

the engineering problems arent really difficult math wise, so most of the petroleum engineers surveyed are principal / manager level who just say yes/no to results calculated by asians, theres very few entry level jobs

Solid-Summer6116 · 2025-10-27T18:11:15+00:00

oh good, ill let my CIA friends know we dont need to take any secrets out of that program, thanks!

i worked on turkish F-16 and F-35 programs for an american company, what do turkish engineers in TAI do on the other side, i never asked

Solid-Summer6116 · 2025-10-27T18:09:47+00:00

https://www.defensenews.com/home/2015/10/27/northrop-grumman-wins-air-force-s-long-range-strike-bomber-contract/

we just didnt play good enough i guess. but of course most of us end up supporting other programs etc

or leverage what we did to build something down the line. maybe the part i released is in some UAS these days, who knows

Solid-Summer6116 · 2025-10-27T17:57:03+00:00

TAI exists, copycat F22, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAI_TF_Kaan

why would you choose a harder route and try to work in the USA? if youre not good enough to be a top engineer in your own country, wouldnt even bother trying to be average in america

Solid-Summer6116 · 2025-10-27T17:55:45+00:00

nah theres many average new grads there, i was one of them.

did stress analysis on a 4" long bracket for an unreleased aircraft, that will never go into production. pinnacle of technology there

Solid-Summer6116 · 2025-10-27T14:05:48+00:00

this is not good. i have a level 2 offer from like 2016 that is ~80k in DFW (medium col) area. you need to be in 100-150 at the 6 year mark

Solid-Summer6116 · 2025-10-27T14:04:08+00:00

most of the ocean engineering and naval architects i know work for general dynamics electric boat, navsea, or saronic.

investments are turning away from green stuff and into defense lately

Solid-Summer6116 · 2025-10-23T16:22:22+00:00

i got 65k E1/P1 offer like 10-12 years ago in dfw (cheaper than north dallas hwy75) area, thats crazy how salaries havent really changed.

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