Data / Hiring / Mechanical Engineers, R&D
Companies hiring Mechanical Engineers, R&D: 851 certified H-1B and PERM cases, FY2023 to FY2026
107 employers had 851 certified H-1B and PERM cases for Mechanical Engineers, R&D (occupation code 17-2144) across 40 states, decided through June 29, 2026; the median offered wage is $84,739 a year.
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- 17-2144Occupation code (SOC)
Certified cases by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Cases |
|---|
| FY2023 | 246 |
| FY2024 | 221 |
| FY2025 | 206 |
| FY2026 | 178 |
By state
| State | Cases | Employers | Median offered |
|---|
| Texas | 81 | 13 | $93,104 |
| Tennessee | 80 | 3 | $117,624 |
| Massachusetts | 79 | 8 | $71,000 |
| Illinois | 71 | 7 | $84,900 |
| California | 60 | 12 | $96,000 |
| Colorado | 48 | 4 | $91,524 |
| New York | 43 | 10 | $130,770 |
| Kansas | 41 | 2 | $68,000 |
| Michigan | 34 | 4 | $62,814 |
| Washington | 34 | 2 | $99,298 |
| Ohio | 32 | 4 | $86,250 |
| Maryland | 24 | 5 | $71,608 |
| Georgia | 22 | 2 | $88,165 |
| Connecticut | 17 | 1 | $61,088 |
| Indiana | 16 | 2 | $60,000 |
| New Jersey | 16 | 2 | $73,496 |
| Virginia | 13 | 4 | $78,707 |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | 5 | $57,117 |
| Idaho | 13 | 1 | $135,000 |
| Iowa | 11 | 2 | $59,586 |
| Florida | 10 | 4 | $62,500 |
| Wisconsin | 10 | 1 | $56,330 |
| Minnesota | 9 | 3 | $57,118 |
| Arizona | 8 | 2 | $59,987 |
| Oregon | 6 | 2 | $61,800 |
| South Carolina | 6 | 1 | $70,173 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | 2 | $66,000 |
| North Carolina | 5 | 2 | $62,000 |
| District of Columbia | 4 | 2 | $76,000 |
| Utah | 4 | 1 | $90,808 |
| Louisiana | 4 | 1 | $54,250 |
| Alaska | 4 | 2 | $114,280 |
| Wyoming | 3 | 1 | $53,206 |
| Alabama | 3 | 2 | $75,000 |
| Rhode Island | 2 | 1 | $68,935 |
| Missouri | 2 | 2 | $78,021 |
| Kentucky | 1 | 1 | $49,754 |
| New Mexico | 1 | 1 | $81,120 |
| Nebraska | 1 | 1 | $90,000 |
| West Virginia | 1 | 1 | $86,798 |
Employers with the most cases
| Employer | Address | Cases |
|---|
| Ut-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) | Oak Ridge, TN | 76 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | 58 |
| Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC | Golden, CO | 44 |
| The University Of Kansas Medical Center | Kansas City, KS | 44 |
| UChicago Argonne LLC | Lemont, IL | 43 |
| Southwest Research Institute | San Antonio, TX | 39 |
| Battelle Memorial Institute | Richland, WA | 38 |
| The Leland Stanford, Jr University | Stanford, CA | 26 |
| University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | 25 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA | 25 |
| Brookhaven National Laboratory | Upton, NY | 22 |
| Transportation Research Center, Inc. | East Liberty, OH | 19 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | 17 |
| University of Connecticut | Storrs, CT | 17 |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | 15 |
| Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC | Idaho Falls, ID | 14 |
| Fermi Research Alliance, LLC | Batavia, IL | 14 |
| Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN | 13 |
| University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | 12 |
| University of Maryland College Park | College Park, MD | 12 |
| Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station | College Station, TX | 11 |
| University of Wisconsin System | Madison, WI | 11 |
| The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | 11 |
| Iowa State University of Science and Technology | Ames, IA | 9 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | 9 |
| University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | 9 |
| University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | 7 |
| Arizona State University | Tempe, AZ | 7 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA | 7 |
| The Florida State University | Tallahassee, FL | 7 |
| University of Colorado | Boulder, CO | 6 |
| Clemson University | Clemson, SC | 6 |
| General Hospital Corporation | Somerville, MA | 6 |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Worcester, MA | 6 |
| Oregon State University | Corvallis, OR | 5 |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Troy, NY | 5 |
| University of California, Davis | Davis, CA | 5 |
| Michigan Technological University | Houghton, MI | 5 |
| The George Washington University | Washington, DC | 5 |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University | Blacksburg, VA | 5 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | 4 |
| California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | 4 |
| Louisiana State University and A&M College | Baton Rouge, LA | 4 |
| Research Foundation for the State University of New York | Stony Brook, NY | 4 |
| Vtt, LLC | Alton, VA | 4 |
| Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | 4 |
| Oklahoma State University | Stillwater, OK | 4 |
| The University of Virginia | Charlottesville, VA | 3 |
| Columbia University | New York, NY | 3 |
| University Of California, Irvine | Irvine, CA | 3 |
| The University of Texas at Arlington | Arlington, TX | 3 |
| University of Wyoming | Laramie, WY | 3 |
| Colorado School of Mines | Golden, CO | 3 |
| W.M. Rice University | Houston, TX | 3 |
| Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) | Moss Landing, CA | 3 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | 3 |
| University of Notre Dame du Lac | Notre Dame, IN | 3 |
| Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. | Palo Alto, CA | 3 |
| Leidos, Inc. | Reston, VA | 3 |
| The University Of Tulsa | Tulsa, OK | 3 |
| Fusion Life Sciences Technologies LLC | Alpharetta, GA | 3 |
| Brown University | Providence, RI | 2 |
| Villanova University | Villanova, PA | 2 |
| Northeastern University | Boston, MA | 2 |
| Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC | Batavia, IL | 2 |
| Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN | 2 |
| New York University | New York, NY | 2 |
| University of Texas at San Antonio | San Antonio, TX | 2 |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | Rochester, NY | 2 |
| New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology | Socorro, NM | 2 |
| The University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | 2 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | 2 |
| University of Alaska | Fairbanks, AK | 2 |
| Tufts University | Medford, MA | 2 |
| San Diego State University Research Foundation | San Diego, CA | 2 |
| Research Foundation of CUNY | New York, NY | 2 |
| Auburn University | Auburn, AL | 2 |
| The University of Texas El Paso | El Paso, TX | 2 |
| Brigham and Women's Hospital | Somerville, MA | 2 |
| The University Of Tennessee | Knoxville, TN | 2 |
| The University of Iowa | Iowa City, IA | 2 |
| Colorado State University | Fort Collins, CO | 1 |
| Florida A&M University | Tallahassee, FL | 1 |
| University of Oregon | Eugene, OR | 1 |
| University Of Kentucky | Lexington, KY | 1 |
| George Mason University | Fairfax, VA | 1 |
| University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources | Oakland, CA | 1 |
| University of Houston | Houston, TX | 1 |
| Abilene Christian University | Abilene, TX | 1 |
| LiquidStack Inc. | Carrollton, TX | 1 |
| University Of West Florida | Pensacola, FL | 1 |
| University of Rochester | Rochester, NY | 1 |
| Stevens Institute of Technology | Hoboken, NJ | 1 |
| The Curators of the University of Missouri | Columbia, MO | 1 |
| University Of Florida | Gainesville, FL | 1 |
| Center for Energy and Environment | Minneapolis, MN | 1 |
| Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska | Lincoln, NE | 1 |
| The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | 1 |
| Texas State University | San Marcos, TX | 1 |
| Texas Tech University | Lubbock, TX | 1 |
| Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Berkeley, CA | 1 |
| The Forsyth Institute | Cambridge, MA | 1 |
| University Of Delaware | Newark, DE | 1 |
| Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland, OH | 1 |
| The University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ | 1 |
| Kansas State University | Manhattan, KS | 1 |
| The University of Alabama | Tuscaloosa, AL | 1 |
Updated June 29, 2026. Read from US Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification. Public domain (U.S. government work). A certified labor condition application (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3) or PERM labor certification is an employer filing the Department of Labor approved. It is not a count of people hired or visas issued. Wages are as the employer filed them, converted to a yearly figure at 2,080 hours; a wage whose unit is missing is left blank. The files show the first worksite of a case. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.