Mechatronics Engineer jobs: skills, pay and how to get hired
Updated 5 Nov 2026. Figures from the jobs in our search, not the whole market.
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What a mechatronics engineer does
A mechatronics engineer makes moving systems work as a whole. Sensors measure, a controller decides, and actuators such as motors, valves and servo drives move the machine; the engineer chooses these parts, connects them, writes or specifies the control, and tests the result until the machine runs safely and as specified. The work goes from requirements and design through simulation and commissioning to fixing faults in the field.
The job sits between several others. The mechanical engineer designs the structure and the moving parts, the electrical engineer the power and the wiring, and the embedded software engineer the code on the controller boards; the mechatronics engineer brings these together and owns the interfaces between them. In German ads the title is Mechatronikingenieur or Ingenieur Mechatronik. A Mechatroniker is a different job: a skilled trade learned in an apprenticeship, which this page does not cover. The steps from junior engineer to lead and beyond are in the career paths of this role.
Machines must be safe before they are sold, and the rules differ by place: in the EU the Machinery Regulation and CE marking, in the UK UKCA marking, in the US OSHA and its standards, and in Switzerland the Swiss Machinery Ordinance, which follows the EU's rules. Each is named here side by side and without ranking; this page describes the job and is not legal advice.
The skills the ads ask for
We read a sample of the ads every day and count the skills they name. On a computer, hover a skill in the text to see its share; on a phone, the table has the same figures.
| Skill | Share of ads | What is expected |
|---|---|---|
| PLC | 12% | Read and change PLC programs, set up the hardware configuration and find faults on a running machine. |
| Control Engineering | 4% | Model a system, tune a control loop and explain why it overshoots or oscillates. |
| AutoCAD | 33% | Model parts and assemblies in a CAD tool and read the drawings of the other disciplines. |
| EPLAN | 4% | Draw and check wiring diagrams and cabinet layouts in EPLAN, and keep them matching the machine. |
| Robotics | 8% | Set up, program and make safe an industrial robot cell together with its gripper and sensors. |
| MATLAB | 8% | Model and simulate a drive or a control loop before the hardware exists, often with Simulink. |
| Functional Safety | 2% | Work out the required safety level from a risk assessment and design the safety functions to meet it. |
| C++ | 13% | Read and write embedded or machine code in C++ where the control runs on a computer, not a PLC. |
| Python | 12% | Write small scripts to test, log and analyse machine data. |
| Project management | 14% | Plan the work of mechanics, electrics and software to one date and one budget. |
| Problem solving | 11% | Find the root cause of a fault across mechanics, electrics and software, step by step. |
Shares of the mechatronics engineer ads we read in the last 7 days, as of 5 Nov 2026. Our ads, not the whole market.
The core leads: PLCAsked in 12% of mechatronics engineer ads (as of 5 Nov 2026).Read and change PLC programs, set up the hardware configuration and find faults on a running machine. programming and control engineeringAsked in 4% of mechatronics engineer ads (as of 5 Nov 2026).Model a system, tune a control loop and explain why it overshoots or oscillates., with CADAsked in 33% of mechatronics engineer ads (as of 5 Nov 2026).Model parts and assemblies in a CAD tool and read the drawings of the other disciplines. for the mechanics and EPLANAsked in 4% of mechatronics engineer ads (as of 5 Nov 2026).Draw and check wiring diagrams and cabinet layouts in EPLAN, and keep them matching the machine. for the wiring. RoboticsAsked in 8% of mechatronics engineer ads (as of 5 Nov 2026).Set up, program and make safe an industrial robot cell together with its gripper and sensors. and functional safetyAsked in 2% of mechatronics engineer ads (as of 5 Nov 2026).Work out the required safety level from a risk assessment and design the safety functions to meet it. are asked for in many ads, MATLABAsked in 8% of mechatronics engineer ads (as of 5 Nov 2026).Model and simulate a drive or a control loop before the hardware exists, often with Simulink. for simulation, and C++Asked in 13% of mechatronics engineer ads (as of 5 Nov 2026).Read and write embedded or machine code in C++ where the control runs on a computer, not a PLC. or PythonAsked in 12% of mechatronics engineer ads (as of 5 Nov 2026).Write small scripts to test, log and analyse machine data. where control runs on a computer. Planning the work of several disciplinesAsked in 14% of mechatronics engineer ads (as of 5 Nov 2026).Plan the work of mechanics, electrics and software to one date and one budget., quality recordsAsked in 10% of mechatronics engineer ads (as of 5 Nov 2026).Work within the quality system: specifications, test records and corrective actions. and finding root causesAsked in 11% of mechatronics engineer ads (as of 5 Nov 2026).Find the root cause of a fault across mechanics, electrics and software, step by step. fill the rest of the day.
The tools are named side by side and none is a must everywhere: for PLCs, Siemens TIA Portal, Beckhoff TwinCAT and CODESYS; for CAD, SolidWorks, Siemens NX and, for wiring, EPLAN; MATLAB and Simulink for models. Some roles add CNCAsked in 2% of mechatronics engineer ads (as of 5 Nov 2026).Know how machine tools are controlled, for designs that are made or used on them. machine tools. Working across disciplinesAsked in 24% of mechatronics engineer ads (as of 5 Nov 2026).Work daily with designers, electricians, programmers and the people who run the machines. and plain explanationsAsked in 11% of mechatronics engineer ads (as of 5 Nov 2026).Explain a technical problem to customers, operators and managers in plain words. are in many ads, EnglishAsked in 93% of mechatronics engineer ads (as of 5 Nov 2026).The language of data sheets, standards, international teams and machines sold abroad. in most and GermanAsked in 80% of mechatronics engineer ads (as of 5 Nov 2026).Asked for in most German ads, where documentation, customers and colleagues are often German-speaking. in German-speaking countries.
Where the jobs are, country by country
Each country below has its own figures: which cities have the most jobs in our list, whether the number is going up or down, how often ads offer remote or hybrid work, the titles used in the country, and pay ranges from published research, in the local currency.
Germany
0% of the ads offer hybrid work, and 0% are fully remote.
Pay (Base salary)
- Entry level: €47,200 to €55,150 a year
- Mid-level: €56,644 to €64,526 a year
- Senior: €66,622 to €73,504 a year
Total pay: neither German source gives a bonus figure for mechatronics engineers.
Entry level runs from the low end of StepStone's range to the Gehalt site's figure for under three years of work; mid-level from that site's lower quarter to its middle figure; senior from its figure for over nine years to its upper quarter, both salary sites' estimates that do not say how many salaries they rest on. Payscale's German page rests on eight salaries and is not used.
Checked 29 Oct 2026: both pages still name mechatronics engineers (Mechatronikingenieur/in; Ingenieur/-in Mechatronik) and show the same figures, so nothing changed. Neither source is Indeed.
Sources: StepStone (2026), Gehalt.de: Ingenieur Mechatronik (2026).
Pay researched on 28 Oct 2026.
Titles: German ads say Mechatronikingenieur, Ingenieur Mechatronik or Entwicklungsingenieur Mechatronik. A Mechatroniker is a skilled trade learned in an apprenticeship, a different job with its own ads; this page is about the engineers, who usually hold a degree.
Rules: machines sold in the EU need a risk assessment and CE marking; the EU Machinery Regulation replaces the Machinery Directive from January 2027. The title Ingenieur is protected by the engineering laws of the German states.
Language: most German ads ask for GermanAsked in 80% of mechatronics engineer ads (as of 5 Nov 2026).Asked for in most German ads, where documentation, customers and colleagues are often German-speaking., and many for EnglishAsked in 93% of mechatronics engineer ads (as of 5 Nov 2026).The language of data sheets, standards, international teams and machines sold abroad. for international customers and suppliers.
Job figures as of 5 Nov 2026.
United States
Pay (Base salary)
- Entry level: $59,000 to $88,258 a year
- Mid-level: $88,623 to $115,859 a year
- Senior: $115,859 to $148,000 a year
Total pay: Payscale gives mechatronics engineers bonuses of about $250 to $14,000 and profit sharing of about $6,000 to $13,000 a year.
Entry level runs from the lower tenth of Payscale's mechatronics engineer range to its figure for one to four years of work; mid-level from its average to Indeed's average for engineers in general; senior from that average to Payscale's upper tenth. Payscale rests on few salaries for this title.
Changed 29 Oct 2026: Indeed US no longer has a mechatronics engineer page and sends that address to its general Engineer page, so the mid-level and senior breakpoint $115,859 is general engineer pay (average $115,859, range $68,027 to $197,322, about 20.6k salaries, updated 19 Oct 2026), not mechatronics pay. Payscale's mechatronics page (51 salaries, June 2026) is read again and unchanged. No other current US source names mechatronics engineers with a range, so the figure stays as a rough guide.
Sources: Payscale (Jun 2026), Indeed: engineer (general) (Oct 2026).
Pay researched on 28 Oct 2026.
How the work is offered: US ads mostly offer full-time employment. Machine safety follows OSHA, the US workplace safety agency, and standards such as NFPA 79 for the electrical equipment of industrial machines.
United Kingdom
Pay (Base salary)
- Entry level: £30,000 to £40,985 a year
- Mid-level: £40,985 to £64,000 a year
- Senior: £43,554 to £69,221 a year
Total pay: Payscale gives UK controls engineers, the closest title with enough salaries, bonuses of about £750 to £7,000 a year.
Entry level runs from the lower tenth of Payscale's controls engineer range to Indeed's average for engineers in general; mid-level from there to Payscale's controls engineer upper tenth; senior from Payscale's controls engineer average to the top of Indeed's range for engineers in general. Payscale's UK mechatronics page rests on six salaries and is not used.
Changed 29 Oct 2026: Indeed UK no longer has a mechatronics engineer page and sends that address to its general Engineer page, so the £40,985 breakpoint and the £69,221 top are general engineer pay (average £40,985, range £25,420 to £69,221, about 19.3k salaries, updated 19 Oct 2026), not mechatronics pay. Payscale UK's mechatronics page (6 salaries, average £37,000, middle half £23k to £47k, updated 5 May 2026) is too thin to replace it; no other current UK source gives a mechatronics range with enough salaries. Read the ranges as a rough guide.
Sources: Indeed: engineer (general) (Oct 2026), Payscale: controls engineer (Apr 2026).
Pay researched on 28 Oct 2026.
Rules: machines placed on the market in Great Britain carry UKCA marking, the UK's own conformity mark, while CE marking under EU rules is also accepted for many products. Some UK engineers register as Chartered Engineer with the Engineering Council of the UK.
Switzerland
Pay (Base salary)
- Entry level: CHF 75,100 to CHF 91,300 a year
- Mid-level: CHF 91,300 to CHF 101,300 a year
- Senior: CHF 101,300 to CHF 121,000 a year
Total pay: Payscale gives Swiss mechanical engineers bonuses of about CHF 700 to CHF 17,000 a year; no Swiss source gives one for mechatronics engineers.
No Swiss source covers mechatronics engineers alone, so these are engineers' figures. Entry level runs from Lohncheck's figure for engineers with under two years of work to its middle figure for engineers; mid-level from there to its figure for specialists; senior from there to the upper tenth of Payscale's range for Swiss mechanical engineers.
Checked 29 Oct 2026: Lohncheck's engineer page is unchanged (middle half CHF 75,300 to 108,300, middle figure 91,300, under two years 75,100, specialist 101,300, Q1 2026). No Swiss page covers mechatronics engineers with a degree: Lohncheck's mechatronics page is for the apprenticeship Mechatroniker (EFZ) and is not used. No Indeed page is cited.
Sources: Lohncheck: engineer (Q1 2026), Payscale: mechanical engineer (Sep 2026).
Pay researched on 28 Oct 2026.
Rules: the Swiss Machinery Ordinance follows the EU's machinery rules, so Swiss machines are built to the same standards. Many Swiss roles need German or French next to EnglishAsked in 93% of mechatronics engineer ads (as of 5 Nov 2026).The language of data sheets, standards, international teams and machines sold abroad..
India
Pay (Base salary)
- Entry level: ₹2.99 lakh to ₹5.63 lakh a year
- Mid-level: ₹6.74 lakh to ₹10 lakh a year
- Senior: ₹6.96 lakh to ₹14.57 lakh a year
Total pay: Payscale gives mechatronics engineers in India bonuses of up to about ₹33,000 a year, from few salaries.
Entry level runs from the lower tenth of Payscale's automation engineer range to its figure for one to four years; mid-level from Payscale's mechatronics engineer average, from few salaries in 2023, to the upper tenth of the automation engineer range, which Payscale rounds to ₹10 lakh; senior from Indeed's average to the top of its range for engineers in general.
Changed 29 Oct 2026: Indeed India no longer has a mechatronics engineer page and sends that address to its general Engineer page, so the senior level is general engineer pay (average ₹6.96 lakh, range ₹3.33 to ₹14.57 lakh), not mechatronics pay. No other current India source gives a senior mechatronics range; read the senior level as a rough guide.
Sources: Payscale: automation engineer (Aug 2026), Payscale: mechatronics engineer (Dec 2023), Indeed: engineer (general) (Oct 2026).
Pay researched on 28 Oct 2026.
Where the roles are: in India, mechatronics engineers work in automotive, electronics and machine building, and many teams design machines for export, so they work to the standards of the countries where the machines are sold.
A machine module, step by step
- Requirements: what the module must do, how fast and how precisely, and the safety functions it needs from the risk assessment.
- Concept: the sensors, actuators and drives, how the mechanics move, and where the control runs.
- Design: CAD models with the mechanical designers, wiring diagrams with the electrical team, and the control program or its specification.
- Simulation and test: models of the motion and the control, sometimes a digital twin, a computer model of the machine, then tests on the bench.
- Commissioning: the module built into the machine, tuned, tested with the customer and handed over with its documentation.
Around new designs come the steady tasks: faults in machines already running, changes customers ask for, parts that are no longer made, and improvements from what service technicians report. A good mechatronics engineer is trusted on the shop floor because the fixes work the first time.
Your CV for a mechatronics engineer job
A mechatronics engineer's CV is read twice: by hiring software that matches the ad's words, and by an engineering lead who wants to see which systems you made work and what you owned. Give both: the keywords and the evidence.
Use the keywords the ads use
- Name the work and tools as the ad does: "PLC", "control engineering", "commissioning", "functional safety", and the PLC and CAD tools you used. The skills table above shows which keywords the ads use most.
- Say what you built: the kind of machine or product, its industry, and your part in it.
- Give your results the way your team measured them, such as cycle time, availability or faults fixed, without confidential figures.
- Name a qualification in progress, such as a degree or a safety course, as in progress with the month you expect to finish.
Prove each skill
A mechatronics line proves itself with a machine that runs better: a faster cycle, a fault that stopped, a module commissioned on time.
| Skill | Weak line | Strong line, with proof |
|---|---|---|
| PLCAsked in 12% of mechatronics engineer ads (as of 5 Nov 2026).Read and change PLC programs, set up the hardware configuration and find faults on a running machine. | Programmed PLCs. | Rewrote the sequence of a packaging module's PLC program; the cycle time dropped and stops at start-up ended. |
| ControlAsked in 4% of mechatronics engineer ads (as of 5 Nov 2026).Model a system, tune a control loop and explain why it overshoots or oscillates. | Worked on control systems. | Tuned the position loop of a linear axis after modelling it; overshoot disappeared at full speed. |
| SafetyAsked in 2% of mechatronics engineer ads (as of 5 Nov 2026).Work out the required safety level from a risk assessment and design the safety functions to meet it. | Responsible for machine safety. | Designed the safety functions of a robot cell from the risk assessment, with documented safety levels. |
| WiringAsked in 4% of mechatronics engineer ads (as of 5 Nov 2026).Draw and check wiring diagrams and cabinet layouts in EPLAN, and keep them matching the machine. | Created electrical diagrams. | Drew the wiring of a test rig in EPLAN and kept it matching every change during commissioning. |
| Field faultsAsked in 11% of mechatronics engineer ads (as of 5 Nov 2026).Find the root cause of a fault across mechanics, electrics and software, step by step. | Supported service. | Found a recurring sensor fault at a customer site that three earlier visits had missed. |
Keep confidential details out: no customer names without permission, no drawings of other companies.
How we read our data
- The jobs: the mechatronics engineer jobs in our job search (mechatronics engineers and the German titles Mechatronikingenieur and Ingenieur Mechatronik), matched by their titles the way the search matches them; Mechatroniker ads, a skilled trade, are not counted here, and mechanical and electrical engineer jobs are counted on their own pages. Our list is not the whole market, so we give shares and rankings, never counts.
- The skills: every day we read a sample of these ads and count the skills in them with a fixed word list. Only the counts are kept, never the text of an ad.
- Pay: from published salary research, each source named with its date, as a range from entry level to senior. Our ads are not used for it.
- Dates: every figure is worked out again each day and shows the day it was worked out.
Frequently asked questions
- What does a mechatronics engineer do?
- Designs, builds into service and fixes systems where mechanics, electronics and control software work together, such as machines and robots.
- Is a mechatronics engineer the same as a Mechatroniker?
- No. In German-speaking countries a Mechatroniker is a skilled trade learned in an apprenticeship; a mechatronics engineer usually holds a degree and designs the systems.
- Do I need to program?
- Usually yes: PLC programming in most roles, and in some C++ or Python where the control runs on a computer.
- Is it closer to mechanical or electrical engineering?
- It is both, with control on top; many engineers come from one side and learn the other.
- What should a mechatronics engineer's CV show first?
- The machines or products you made work, your part in them and what improved.
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