Carnegie Mellon University
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Carnegie Mellon University tech stack

Carnegie Mellon University builds mostly with Python, C++, Java, MATLAB. Its stack also includes Linux, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Windows. Python is named in 70 of the 160 job postings Carnegie Mellon University published in the last 12 months (44%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of Carnegie Mellon University, updated Nov 14, 2026.

Source: Alion Coverage: the company's job postings of the last 12 months Nov 14, 2026
Technologies in use
213
Postings analysed
160
Open now
110
Modernity
83 /100
New in 6 months
8

What programming languages does Carnegie Mellon University use?

Python is named in 44% of job postings at Carnegie Mellon University, followed by C++ (23%), Java (11%), MATLAB (9%).

Python 70 44% required in 96% · 53 open now · since Feb 2026
C++ 37 23% required in 92% · 29 open now · since Jan 2026
Java 18 11% required in 94% · 13 open now · since Jan 2026
MATLAB 15 9% required in 93% · 10 open now · since Feb 2026
C# 8 5% required in 100% · 5 open now · since Jun 2026
PowerShell 7 4% required in 100% · 6 open now · since Mar 2026
JavaScript 7 4% required in 71% · 3 open now · since Jun 2026
SQL 7 4% required in 71% · 5 open now · since Mar 2026
Show all (23)
VHDL6
Verilog6
TypeScript4
Ada3
Stata3
Bash2
Go2
Rust2
Structured Text2
PHP2
Perl1
Ruby1
SAS1
Sass1
C1

What frameworks and libraries does Carnegie Mellon University use?

PyTorch is named in 9% of job postings at Carnegie Mellon University, followed by TensorFlow (9%), NumPy (4%), ROS (4%).

PyTorch 15 9% required in 100% · 10 open now · since Apr 2026
TensorFlow 15 9% required in 100% · 10 open now · since Apr 2026
NumPy 7 4% required in 100% · 6 open now · since Apr 2026
ROS 7 4% required in 71% · 6 open now · since Feb 2026
TensorFlow C++ 6 4% required in 100% · 5 open now · since Apr 2026
CatBoost 4 3% required in 100% · 4 open now · since May 2026
FastAPI 4 3% required in 100% · 4 open now · since May 2026
JAX 4 3% required in 100% · 4 open now · since May 2026
Show all (37)
LangChain4
LightGBM4
LlamaIndex4
Triton4
XGBoost4
Haystack3
NeuralProphet3
SciPy3
MuJoCo3
ROS23
Angular2
Playwright2
Unicorn Engine2
ASP.NET Core1
Cypress1
Django1
Jest1
Psychopy1
PyQt1
PySide61
Qt1
Ray1
Selenium1
TensorRT-LLM1
CUDA1
MoveIt1
OMPL1
OpenCV1
Spring Framework1

What databases does Carnegie Mellon University use?

Snowflake is named in 3% of job postings at Carnegie Mellon University, followed by Google BigQuery (3%), Realm (3%), Oracle (3%).

Snowflake 5 3% required in 80% · 4 open now · since May 2026
Google BigQuery 4 3% required in 100% · 4 open now · since Mar 2026
Realm 4 3% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Aug 2026
Oracle 4 3% required in 75% · 1 open now · since Aug 2026
Trino 3 2% required in 100% · 3 open now · since May 2026
MS SQL 2 1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Mar 2026
PostgreSQL 2 1% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Aug 2026
Amazon Aurora 1 1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Mar 2026
Show all (15)
Amazon Redshift1
Azure Cosmos DB1
Azure SQL Database1
DynamoDB1
Firestore1
MySQL1
Redis1

What cloud and platforms does Carnegie Mellon University use?

Linux is named in 16% of job postings at Carnegie Mellon University, followed by Windows (8%), Power BI (5%), Amazon S3 (4%).

Linux 25 16% required in 88% · 19 open now · since Jan 2026
Windows 12 8% required in 83% · 8 open now · since Jan 2026
Power BI 8 5% required in 38% · 7 open now · since Jun 2026
Amazon S3 6 4% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Mar 2026
Amazon SageMaker 4 3% required in 100% · 4 open now · since May 2026
Vertex AI 4 3% required in 100% · 4 open now · since May 2026
GitHub 4 3% required in 75% · 2 open now · since Jun 2026
Kubernetes 4 3% required in 75% · 4 open now · since Jan 2026
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Databricks3
GitLab3
Spark3
Unix3
AWS3
Azure3
Figma3
VMWare3
Bitbucket2
GCP2
Looker2
Tableau2
Airflow1
Amazon CloudWatch1
Amazon EKS1
Azure AKS1
Framer1
GitHub Actions1
GitLab CI1
Google GKE1
Kali Linux1
MLFlow1
NVIDIA NIM1
Ollama1
RTOS1
SIEM1
Security Onion1
SonarQube1
Weights & Biases1
Windows Server1
vLLM1
Microsoft Entra ID1

What developer tools does Carnegie Mellon University use?

Microsoft Excel is named in 8% of job postings at Carnegie Mellon University, followed by IDA Pro (8%), Git (6%), SolidWorks (5%).

Microsoft Excel 13 8% required in 77% · 8 open now · since Jun 2026
IDA Pro 12 8% required in 100% · 10 open now · since Apr 2026
Git 10 6% required in 90% · 8 open now · since Jan 2026
SolidWorks 8 5% required in 100% · 6 open now · since Aug 2026
Docker 7 4% required in 71% · 6 open now · since Jan 2026
Ghidra 6 4% required in 100% · 5 open now · since Apr 2026
Wireshark 6 4% required in 100% · 5 open now · since Aug 2026
Cobalt Strike 4 3% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Aug 2026
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KServe4
Sliver4
Ansible4
Gazebo4
Rest API4
Terraform4
Adobe Photoshop3
Isaac Sim3
Hyper-V3
Binary Ninja2
Canva2
Frida2
Fusion 3602
Model Context Protocol2
QEMU2
WinDbg2
x64dbg2
ANSYS1
Adobe XD1
Altium Designer1
ArgoCD1
CANopen1
CMake1
CloudFormation1
Copilot1
GNU Make1
Informatica1
Jenkins1
KVM1
Packer1
Proxmox VE1
TPU1

And 5 more, each named in fewer postings.

What AI and ML technologies does Carnegie Mellon University use?

LLM is named in 4% of job postings at Carnegie Mellon University, followed by Llama (2%), ChatGPT (1%), Claude (1%).

LLM 7 4% required in 100% · 5 open now · since May 2026
Llama 3 2% required in 100% · 3 open now · since May 2026
ChatGPT 2 1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Oct 2026
Claude 1 1% required in 100% · since Oct 2026
VLM 1 1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Oct 2026

Which engineering practices does Carnegie Mellon University ask for?

Machine Learning is named in 34% of job postings at Carnegie Mellon University, followed by Computer Vision (12%), AI Agents (10%), Multimodal AI (8%).

Machine Learning 54 34% required in 96% · 38 open now · since Apr 2025
Computer Vision 19 12% required in 84% · 16 open now · since Feb 2026
AI Agents 16 10% required in 100% · 15 open now · since May 2026
Multimodal AI 13 8% required in 92% · 10 open now · since Feb 2026
Red Teaming 10 6% required in 100% · 6 open now · since May 2026
Agentic Workflows 8 5% required in 100% · 8 open now · since May 2026
CI/CD 8 5% required in 100% · 8 open now · since Jan 2026
TCP/IP 6 4% required in 100% · 5 open now · since Aug 2026
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Motion Planning6
Self-Supervised Learning5
NLP4
RAG4
Transfer Learning4
VPN4
ETL/ELT3
Edge AI3
Embodied AI3
Fine-tuning3
Human-in-the-Loop3
Prompt Engineering3
Recommender Systems3
Synthetic Data3
Time Series3
Configuration Management2
DNS2
Digital Twin2
Function Calling2
Incident Management2
Sensor Fusion2
Vision-Language-Action2
Reinforcement Learning2
Reinforcement Learning2
Autonomous Navigation1
CRISPR1
DHCP1
Embeddings1
GitOps1
HPC1
IAM1
LLM Guardrails1

And 8 more, each named in fewer postings.

What does each Carnegie Mellon University team work with?

The technologies each team's postings require most often, with the number of postings that require them.

Science & Research

23 postings
Python6
MATLAB4

AI/ML

17 postings
Python9
C++6
Java5
IDA Pro4
PyTorch4
TensorFlow4

Security

16 postings
Python9
IDA Pro7
Linux7
C++5
NumPy4
PowerShell4

Early Careers

13 postings
Python11
PyTorch4
TensorFlow4
C++3
Linux3
Ansible2

Backend

11 postings
Python7
C++6
Java5
C#4
Git4
Linux3

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How is the Carnegie Mellon University stack changing?

Read from the dates of the postings themselves: a technology is new when the first posting that names it appeared in the last six months, rising or falling when its share of postings moved between the last two quarters.

First appeared
BashOct 2026
ChatGPTOct 2026
PHPOct 2026
CanvaSep 2026
PlaywrightSep 2026
TypeScriptSep 2026
AngularSep 2026
DNSSep 2026
Rising
Python24% → 50%
Java5% → 14%
MATLAB2% → 11%
Windows0% → 9%
PowerShell0% → 6%
TCP/IP0% → 6%
Git2% → 7%
VHDL0% → 5%
Falling
Agentic Workflows12% → 2%
Microsoft Excel15% → 6%
NumPy10% → 1%
Unix7% → 0%
Power BI10% → 4%
GitHub7% → 1%
TensorFlow C++7% → 2%
Multimodal AI10% → 6%

How modern is the Carnegie Mellon University stack?

Cutting-edge AI adopter 83/100

Carnegie Mellon University scores 83 out of 100 (Cutting-edge). The score averages how current each technology in the stack is and adds weight for AI adoption. AI technologies in the stack: 5; legacy ones: 0.

How common is the Carnegie Mellon University stack in its industry?

Share of the 1,485 companies in the same industries, whose stack Alion knows, that use each technology.

Python36%
C++12%
Linux21%
Java10%
MATLAB11%
PyTorch9%
TensorFlow6%
Windows29%
C#11%
Power BI19%

What sets Carnegie Mellon University apart

NumPy3%
ROS2%
Amazon S34%
TensorFlow C++2%
VHDL1%
Verilog2%
Snowflake4%
Amazon SageMaker1%
CatBoost0%
FastAPI3%

Questions about the Carnegie Mellon University tech stack

What programming languages does Carnegie Mellon University use?

The languages named in Carnegie Mellon University job postings are Python (44%), C++ (23%), Java (11%), MATLAB (9%), C# (5%), as a share of the 160 postings of the last 12 months.

Does Carnegie Mellon University use PyTorch?

Yes. PyTorch is named in 15 of 160 job postings (9%) and required in 15 of them.

What cloud and platforms does Carnegie Mellon University use?

The cloud and platforms named in Carnegie Mellon University job postings are Linux (25), Windows (12), Power BI (8) (postings in brackets).

What skills do you need for a Science & Research job at Carnegie Mellon University?

Science & Research postings at Carnegie Mellon University most often require Python (6), MATLAB (4), out of 23 postings in the last 12 months.

Is the Carnegie Mellon University tech stack changing?

Yes. Bash, ChatGPT, PHP, Canva first appeared in Carnegie Mellon University job postings in the last six months.

How modern is the Carnegie Mellon University tech stack?

Carnegie Mellon University scores 83 out of 100 (Cutting-edge). The score averages how current each technology in the stack is and adds weight for AI adoption. AI technologies in the stack: 5; legacy ones: 0.

How does Alion know the Carnegie Mellon University tech stack?

Alion reads every job posting Carnegie Mellon University publishes and tags the technologies each one names. The figures on this page count the 160 postings of the last 12 months and were updated on Nov 14, 2026.

Method and citation

Alion reads every job posting the company publishes and tags the technologies each one names. Shares count the postings of the last 12 months, open and closed; the company's own products are counted apart. How we count

Alion, "Carnegie Mellon University tech stack: 213 technologies from 160 job postings", as of Nov 14, 2026. https://alion.io/company/cmu/technologies

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