You may have just embarked on your first year studying. You may have just graduated from a top university, fresh and ready to set sail on your engineering career. Or, you may already be embedded in the working world of engineering, ready to take the next step up. If you are dreaming of where your next post will be, whether a electrical engineer, a mechanical role or a software position we’ve tracked down the five best engineering companies in the world to aspire to work for.

NASA

Be at the core of cutting edge research and technology. As an engineer at NASA, you are an important part of a mission; exploring the universe, understanding our planets and breakthroughs in aviation. At NASA, you can be part of a team that makes history - if that isn’t attractive, what is?

Google

Free food, volleyball and on site dry cleaning - all the perks of being a top engineer at Google. The innovative company favours ability over experience - they are eager to nurture your talents. With a wide variety of projects undertaken by Google, there’s plenty of scope to explore many different areas. But your main focus across every project you work on? You will use technology to solve some of the worlds biggest challenges.

Boeing

At the heart of aviation, with a future thinking space travel programme, you can be part of a company redefining an entire industry. Boeing is dedicated to innovation in its every being. Boeing recently unveiled its first space taxi - a feat of engineering. You can be part of exciting projects that are pushing the boundaries of air and space travel.

Apple

The brand every engineer wants to be part of - a cog in Steve Jobs’ forward thinking innovative legacy.  Tinker with products and processes as an idealist and inventor at Apple and be part of a team that discovers new ways of thinking on a daily basis. Apple reward bright and original thinking - do you have what it takes?

BMW Group

Develop vehicles of the future - BMW don’t predict it, they create it. Launch vehicles with cutting edge technologies onto roads around the world - you can be that person that creates a motor so special that it reignites their passion for cars.