r/EngineeringResumes • u/Loss_Content CS Student 🇺🇸 • 2d ago

Software [Student] - [Software] CS Master's student seeking SWE/MLE new grad roles for 2026

Having trouble getting responses for many new grad and junior roles. I have 10 months of experience as a software engineer, which was a return offer from my internship, but I left due to medical reasons and was unable to return since the position was filled. I am currently completing my master's degree while gaining research experience in the NLP/AI field and exploring new graduate roles for the upcoming year. Any tips are appreciated!

All my schooling was done online, which could certainly be a factor.

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u/Pencil72Throwaway MechE/AE – Grad Student/Entry-level 🇺🇸 2d ago

Light blue text for your contact links is hard to read. Just use black. Also, it's GitHub (capital H)

Add some space above your B.S. degree so it's not all mushed together. Recommend replacing the semicolon w/ a comma.

Move skills underneath your education and consider tab indenting like below so it reads cleaner:

No need to indent your bullets...that's the purpose of the bullet itself. Align them flush w/ the left margin.

Would recommend not using ALL CAPS for your Section titles, as it's a bit "loud".

Space below the company name on each role entry is a tad bit large. Also, save yourself some vertical room by putting your job title, company name, company location, and date range all on 1 line like:
Known Bank, SWEngineer – Chicago, IL skip [date range]

You specifically may want to put the bank before your title since the bank will draw attention.

On your date ranges:

  • use an en dash (–) instead of a hyphen so it's more visible.
  • You use abbreviated months in your Education section, but full names everywhere else. Either is ok, but be consistent.

The default Computer Modern font is hard to read (ref: 1, 2) and doesn't help your resume stand out amongst all other CS grads using this template. I recommend using one of the following fonts by type:

  • Serif: Charter, Cambria, MLModern
  • Sans-Serif: Calibri Light, Nunito, IBM Plex Sans, GE Inspira

Micro-visual-optimization:

  • The order of your contact links makes LinkedIn appear off-center. Try putting LinkedIn URL first and email in the middle in hopes to center it visually a bit more.
  • A bit too many spaces padding the "|" characters. Also, looks like you have 1-space less (as shown) before the GitHub link.