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Is it difficult to get into the automotive engineering industry?

I want to try to get into the automotive engineering industry after getting my bachelors in mechanical engineering, is it difficult to get into that field?

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Bryan’s Answer

It will depend. The automotive field has an extremely large amount of jobs and different roles, even for mechanical engineers. On the design side you could work on thermals, aerodynamics, suspension systems, engine systems, interior designs, or routing of electrical subsystems. On the manufacturing side you could work on how the engine gets made, or installed, or how the paint gets sprayed on, or how the seats get installed, etc.

There is an incredibly large amount of roles.

But, I would say, being able to go straight from college to an automotive job would be difficult as they are pretty sought after as the companies have a bit of prestige and are just large names. So being in college and in a group like formula SAE would really add a lot of hands on work to your resume to be able to land an internship at one of these companies.
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Jesus’s Answer

It depends, if you want to go into the F1 space where you work on race cars and get involved a lot with that environment, the sooner you join an FSAE or find some rally or low tier racing team the better. I should also mention that you should have a lot of time on a car to really build that familiarity with vehicles. If you want to go somewhere like Tesla, Rivian, etc. Your best bet would still be FSAE and having a really solid structure with your fundamentals within mechanical engineering. I can't say this enough, try to get internships in the spaces that you're interested to know if that's what you really want to do. I thought I wanted to focus on automotive but my reality was that I just enjoyed tech as a whole and anything that had to do with design and the combination of those two.

Jesus recommends the following next steps:

Join FSAE clubs or have very automotive related projects that show commitment and knowledge of the industry
Go to career fairs and apply apply apply
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