America's Best Employers for Engineers

by Rachel Rabkin Peachman, Forbes

The demand for engineers in the American workforce is at an all-time high, with recent analyses reporting a shortage of talent, particularly of workers with skills in software, industrial, civil, and electrical engineering. There is also a critical need for engineers with expertise in next-generation technologies, such as advanced robotics and 3D printing.

What's more, the gap between the supply of new engineers and the demand for their skill sets is only growing. A report—published by the consulting firm BCG and SAE International, a professional association of engineers—projects that the need for engineering skills will increase by about 13% until 2031, and the disparity between new engineering roles created and new engineers entering the U.S. market each year may result in one in three new roles going unfilled.

World Wide Technology listed at no. 30 on America's Best Employers For Engineers 2025

These workforce statistics put qualified engineers in the position to be selective about their job prospects. With that in mind, Forbes partnered with market research firm Statista to assemble our first-ever ranking of America's Best Employers For Engineers, a list to help workers match their engineering prowess with employers that offer competitive compensation, challenging work, and an engaging environment.

To create the inaugural list, we surveyed more than 22,000 engineers working for companies with at least 1,000 people within the country. Respondents were asked how likely they would be to recommend their current employer, their previous employer (within the past two years), and companies they knew through peers in their industry or through friends or family who worked there. Current workers were also asked to evaluate their employers based on such criteria as: benefits, professional development opportunities and workplace flexibility. Data from the past three years of Forbes-Statista employee surveys was included.

Responses were tallied and analyzed, with data from current employees weighted more heavily than older data or than responses from past employees or people who had never worked at the company. Each employer was then given a score, and the top 175 companies made our list of America's Best Employers For Engineers 2025,