<p>I am wondering that if Mechanical Engineers are also on high demand as EE and CS majors in Silicon Valley. Thank you.</p>
<p>plenty of jobs for mechanical engineers in the Silicon Valley. it just depends on whether your skills and experience match what the positions require.</p>
<p>Are there jobs for mechanical engineers in SV? Certainly. </p>
<p>However, are there are as many jobs for mechanical engineers in SV as there are for EE/CS students? The answer is no, and that’s not even a close call. The fact is, unlike the Midwest or SoCal, SV nowadays has relatively little heavy manufacturing that provides the bulk of mechanical engineering jobs. NUMMI died, replaced by the Tesla Factory, leaving defunct most of the NUMMI facilities and employing a bare 20% of the number of employees that NUMMI once did. While SV is named for the eponymous silicon fabrication plants that used to abound in the area, I believe that the last major semiconductor fab plant operating in the region was Intel’s D2 fab, which [url=<a href=“http://www.edn.com/article/470533-Intel_moves_last_Silicon_Valley_fab_from_manufacturing_to_process_development.php]closed[/url”>http://www.edn.com/article/470533-Intel_moves_last_Silicon_Valley_fab_from_manufacturing_to_process_development.php]closed[/url</a>] a few years ago. The vast majority of semiconductor firms in the region area ‘fabless’ firms that outsource their manufacturing to remote foundries such as TSMC, and even the integrated device makers run fabs elsewhere. </p>
<p>To be clear, there still are obviously plenty of support and R&D jobs available for mechanical engineers in SV. But at the same time, it is undeniable that the vast majority of SV engineering jobs are software development or electrical design jobs that are less suitable for ME’s.</p>