Lead Engineer jobs: 114 open roles
Open lead engineer jobs taken from employers’ own career sites and checked to still be open.

The market for lead engineer work
Every figure names its source. Skills and AI-skill shares describe the whole Engineering function this title sits in.
- Verified open lead engineer jobs
- 114
- Engineering openings that ask for AI skills
- 8%
Source: NextChapter, checked against employer career sites, last 7 days.
See the detail →Source: NextChapter verified openings.
Skills most often named in openings
- 1. python10%
- 2. project management5%
- 3. linux4%
- 4. c++4%
- 5. aws4%
- 6. agile4%
- 7. supply chain4%
- 8. procurement3%
AI skills worth building for this work
- 1. ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow)
- 2. LLM application engineering
- 3. RAG and vector search
- 4. Model fine-tuning
- 5. Model training and deep learning
- 6. MLOps
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Open lead engineer jobs
Verified against the employer’s own career site within the last week.
- LEAD ENGINEER
ABM Industries · San Diego, CA, United States
Nov 5, 2026
- Lead Engineer
Exponent · New York (Flatiron); HYBRID, 2+ days in office
Nov 3, 2026
- Lead Engineer - Solid-State Circuit Breakers
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories · Washington - Pullman
Nov 3, 2026
- Lead Engineer – Automation Modernization
United Airlines Holdings · Houston, Texas, United States
Nov 2, 2026
- Lead Engineer, Order Management
Stitch Fix · Remote, USA
$150k–$186k · Nov 2, 2026
- Lead Engineer, Manufacturing Equipment 1 1 1
Celestica · Fort Worth, TX, US
Nov 2, 2026
- Lead Engineer, Manufacturing Equipment 1 1
Celestica · Fort Worth, TX, US
Nov 2, 2026
- Lead Engineer, Manufacturing Process 1
Celestica · Fort Worth, TX, US
Nov 2, 2026
- Lead Engineer - Metallic Materials Behavior
General Electric · Evendale, Ohio, United States of America
Nov 2, 2026
- Lead Engineer, Vehicle Architecture
Rivian Automotive · Plymouth, Michigan
Oct 30, 2026
- Lead Engineer - Material Mechanics and Durability
General Electric · Niskayuna, New York, United States of America
Oct 30, 2026
- Lead Engineer - Embedded Software Development
General Electric · Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States of America
Oct 29, 2026
- Lead Engineer, MEP
WSP · Kennesaw, GA, United States
Oct 27, 2026
- Lead Engineer, Manufacturing Process
Celestica · Plano, TX, US
Oct 27, 2026
- Lead Engineer - FADEC Operating System
General Electric · Evendale, Ohio, United States of America
Oct 26, 2026
Showing the newest 15 of about 114 verified open jobs here. Search all jobs
Engineering jobs in the rankings
Rankings about engineering jobs
- Best cities for software and engineering jobs #1 San Francisco (3,412 openings)
- Best cities for engineering pay after cost of living #1 San Mateo ($216k)
- Most requested AI skills in engineering jobs #1 AI tools in daily work (6.1%)
- AI tools named most often in engineering jobs #1 Claude (1.7%)
- Employers with the most engineering jobs #1 Amazon (2,992 roles)
Where lead engineer jobs are
- Texas13
- New York10
- California9
- Ohio9
- North Carolina9
- Florida7
- Massachusetts7
- Pennsylvania6
- Georgia6
- Michigan5
- Virginia5
- Colorado4
Between jobs? Unemployment benefits and severance rules in these states, or in every state.
Employers hiring lead engineers
- Maximus 26
- Celestica 9
- General Electric 8
- Eversource Energy 8
- Scout Motors 8
- HR Green 4
- Coherent 3
- Eaton 3
- Lumen Technologies 3
- Iberdrola 2
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