100+ Engineering & Science Jobs in Columbus, OH

Government wage data anchors the market at solid but not extreme levels: Columbus architecture and engineering occupations had a 2025 median of $94,280, with a 25th percentile of $76,510 and a 90th percentile of $136,950. For life, physical, and social science occupations in Columbus, the 2025 median was $82,010, with a 25th percentile of $62,860 and a 90th percentile of $134,820. Proxy and posting-based signals run higher: Robert Half estimates roughly $74,200 at the 25th percentile and $129,500 at the 75th percentile for local engineering/scientific professionals, while advertised salary bands in the local posting sample center on about $126k to $185k.

Full September 2026 market report

Advertised pay

Across the 83 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $85,000 at the 25th percentile, $125,063 at the median and $151,838 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of October 17, 2026

Senior roles | Entry level | Remote | Posted this week

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What our analysts see this month

Competitive market | next 3-6 months

This is a competitive but worthwhile market over the next 3-6 months: Columbus unemployment was 3.3% in August 2026, and statewide engineering & scientific employment and active postings were up 3.4% and 18.4% year-over-year, respectively. The catch is mix and seniority: more than 350 recent postings were spread across more than 175 companies, but about 40% of local postings were senior and about 25% were lead+, with only about 5% remote. Opportunity is strongest in civil engineering, business consulting, construction, and architecture/planning-linked work, while Columbus professional and business services employment was down -4.2879% year-over-year, which makes generic consulting applications harder than highly targeted ones.

Best positioned: The best odds right now belong to a mid-career or senior candidate who can work on-site and show project management plus tools like AutoCAD, Revit, Python, or root cause analysis, ideally with a PE or architectural-license path for built-environment roles.

Main caution: Do not read the big posted salary bands as typical for everyone; they are heavily influenced by a senior-heavy opening mix and broad occupation categories rather than abundant entry-level openings.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 142 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Vertiv Group: 15 open roles
2. Amazon: 11 open roles
3. WSP Global Inc.: 10 open roles
4. Amazon Web Services, Inc.: 8 open roles
5. Burns & McDonnell: 7 open roles
6. American Electric Power Co.: 6 open roles
7. Schneider Electric SA: 6 open roles
8. Battelle: 5 open roles
9. Vertiv: 5 open roles
10. Bechtel Corporation: 4 open roles

Where the openings are

• Columbus: 81
• Delaware: 11
• Westerville: 8
• New Albany: 8
• Grove City: 4
• Johnstown: 3
• Ashville: 3
• Franklin County: 3

Work arrangement

on-site 117 (84%), hybrid 22 (16%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is not spread evenly across every engineering or scientific specialty. In the recent local posting mix, civil engineering and business consulting each represented about 20% of activity, construction about 15%, and IT services/consulting plus architecture/planning about 10% each. The named employer list matches that mix: Deloitte led the sample with more than 20 postings, while Vertiv had around 15 and Slalom, Amazon, Amazon Web Services, EMH&T, and Anduril were around 10 each. That means Columbus is currently strongest for candidates who can tie technical depth to delivery environments: infrastructure, design, consulting, construction, industrial hardware, and physical systems. The backdrop is mixed by sector—manufacturing employment in Columbus was 77.3 thousand and up 0.3896% year-over-year, while professional and business services was 187.5 thousand and down -4.2879%. Recent local expansion signals also lean toward physical systems and engineering execution, including illumynt's approximately 200,000-square-foot expansion for AI and data-center hardware work, Burns & McDonnell's planned office growth of more than 45 additional jobs, and ANS's downtown headquarters move creating 13 jobs on top of 47 existing local positions. Scientific and lab-linked opportunity is present but less directly measured in local hiring data, with signals coming more from Ohio State's $1.9 million NIH award and Bayer's early-design pharma campus work than from broad local posting counts.

• Civil, infrastructure, and built-environment delivery (high): This is the clearest local cluster, supported by about 20% civil-engineering share, about 15% construction share, about 10% architecture/planning share, and employers such as EMH&T plus expansion signals from Burns & McDonnell and ANS.
• Consulting and systems-heavy engineering work (moderate): There is real volume here through Deloitte, Slalom, Amazon, and Amazon Web Services, but it sits against a weaker local professional-and-business-services backdrop.
• Manufacturing, hardware, and process diagnostics (moderate): This lane is supported by steady local manufacturing, Vertiv's presence, and illumynt's expansion around testing, repair, recovery, and process development for AI and data-center hardware.
• Scientific research and lab-adjacent roles (limited): The long-term signal is positive through Ohio State research funding and Bayer's pharma-campus design activity, but the local evidence is thinner and less broad than for engineering/infrastructure roles.

Where to focus: Prioritize on-site roles where a physical-system deliverable is obvious—civil/site design, infrastructure delivery, plant or hardware process work—before spending time on remote generalist searches.

Roles worth searching next

• Technical project manager or project coordinator: Project management shows up in about 20% of local category postings, and consulting plus construction make up roughly 35% of the local mix, so coordination-heavy roles can be a practical bridge.
• Quality systems specialist or manufacturing quality analyst: Root cause analysis is a recurring local skill, and Columbus manufacturing has held steadier than professional/business services.
• BIM coordinator or CAD designer: AutoCAD and Revit are both established local signals, and built-environment work is one of Columbus's thickest opportunity pools.
• Field service or hardware diagnostics specialist: Local signals around Vertiv, AWS-related employers, and illumynt point to demand around hardware evaluation, diagnostics, repair, and recovery rather than pure office design work.
• Lab operations or regulated research support specialist: The scientific side of the market shows more local strength through research and pharma-capital signals than through a broad local posting count, which makes operations/support roles a practical entry point.

What postings ask for

• Project management (table_stakes | immediate): It is the most-requested hard skill in local postings, appearing in about 20% of the sample, and it fits a market that skews toward senior and lead roles. Who: Mid-career engineers, technical leads, and switchers coming from operations or construction.
• AutoCAD (table_stakes | immediate): AutoCAD appears in about 15% of local postings and lines up with Columbus demand in civil engineering, construction, and architecture/planning. Who: Entry-level candidates, civil-track engineers, design-support applicants, and switchers building a bridge into the market.
• Revit (differentiator | immediate): Revit shows up in about 10% of local postings, which is meaningful in a market with visible built-environment demand. Who: Candidates targeting architecture, BIM, site-design, or construction-linked engineering roles.
• Python (differentiator | immediate): Python appears in about 10% of local postings and also shows up in broader engineering salary-guide demand signals alongside MATLAB, systems modeling, and FEA. Who: Systems, mechanical, scientific, and process candidates who need to prove they can handle analysis, automation, or test workflows.
• Professional engineering or architectural license (premium | near-term): Only about 5% of local postings explicitly require a professional engineering or architectural license, but that requirement tends to matter disproportionately in civil, architecture, and sign-off work. Who: Civil engineers, architects, and candidates planning to stay in regulated design or public-infrastructure work.
• Root cause analysis and diagnostics (differentiator | immediate): Root cause analysis appears in about 5% of local postings, and recent local expansion signals point to more engineering-grade diagnostics, hardware evaluation, repair, and process-development work. Who: Manufacturing, quality, reliability, hardware, and process candidates.

Questions about this market

What do Engineering & Scientific roles pay in Columbus, OH?

Government wage data anchors the market at solid but not extreme levels: Columbus architecture and engineering occupations had a 2025 median of $94,280, with a 25th percentile of $76,510 and a 90th percentile of $136,950. For life, physical, and social science occupations in Columbus, the 2025 median was $82,010, with a 25th percentile of $62,860 and a 90th percentile of $134,820. Proxy and posting-based signals run higher: Robert Half estimates roughly $74,200 at the 25th percentile and $129,500 at the 75th percentile for local engineering/scientific professionals, while advertised salary bands in the local posting sample center on about $126k to $185k. That gap tells you the market is paying up for the openings that are actually being advertised now, but especially for senior, scoped, and on-site roles rather than for the whole occupation base.

Where is demand for Engineering & Scientific roles in Columbus, OH concentrated?

Real opportunity is not spread evenly across every engineering or scientific specialty. In the recent local posting mix, civil engineering and business consulting each represented about 20% of activity, construction about 15%, and IT services/consulting plus architecture/planning about 10% each. The named employer list matches that mix: Deloitte led the sample with more than 20 postings, while Vertiv had around 15 and Slalom, Amazon, Amazon Web Services, EMH&T, and Anduril were around 10 each. That means Columbus is currently strongest for candidates who can tie technical depth to delivery environments: infrastructure, design, consulting, construction, industrial hardware, and physical systems. The backdrop is mixed by sector—manufacturing employment in Columbus was 77.3 thousand and up 0.3896% year-over-year, while professional and business services was 187.5 thousand and down -4.2879%. Recent local expansion signals also lean toward physical systems and engineering execution, including illumynt's approximately 200,000-square-foot expansion for AI and data-center hardware work, Burns & McDonnell's planned office growth of more than 45 additional jobs, and ANS's downtown headquarters move creating 13 jobs on top of 47 existing local positions. Scientific and lab-linked opportunity is present but less directly measured in local hiring data, with signals coming more from Ohio State's $1.9 million NIH award and Bayer's early-design pharma campus work than from broad local posting counts.

Which employers are hiring the most Engineering & Scientific talent in Columbus, OH?

Recent postings show the most activity from Deloitte (20 postings), Vertiv (15 postings), Slalom (10 postings), Amazon (10 postings), Amazon Web Services, Inc. (10 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Engineering & Scientific roles in Columbus, OH be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 5% are remote and 20% hybrid, with 75% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

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