Lightning AI tech stack
Lightning AI builds mostly with Python, Go, SQL, Rust. Its stack also includes PyTorch, Kubernetes, Linux, Ray. PyTorch is named in 51 of the 51 job postings Lightning AI published in the last 12 months (100%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of Lightning AI, updated Sep 27, 2026.
What programming languages does Lightning AI use?
Python is named in 43% of job postings at Lightning AI, followed by Go (20%), SQL (8%), Rust (6%).
What frameworks and libraries does Lightning AI use?
PyTorch is named in 100% of job postings at Lightning AI, followed by Ray (12%), CUDA (8%), NCCL (8%).
PyTorch
51 100%
Ray
6 12%
OpenTelemetry
3 6%
DeepSpeed
1 2%
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What databases does Lightning AI use?
BigQuery is named in 6% of job postings at Lightning AI, followed by Google BigQuery (6%), Snowflake (2%).
BigQuery 
What cloud and platforms does Lightning AI use?
Kubernetes is named in 31% of job postings at Lightning AI, followed by Linux (22%), AWS (18%), GCP (14%).
Kubernetes
16 31%
AWS
9 18%
GCP
7 14%
Azure
6 12%
Grafana
5 10%
CUDA Toolkit
4 8%
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What developer tools does Lightning AI use?
InfiniBand is named in 16% of job postings at Lightning AI, followed by Terraform (14%), SLURM (14%), Prometheus (12%).
Terraform
7 14%
SLURM
7 14%
Prometheus
6 12%
Ansible
4 8%
Docker
4 8%
CloudFormation
2 4%
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What AI and ML technologies does Lightning AI use?
LLM is named in 4% of job postings at Lightning AI, followed by Claude (2%), PEFT (2%).
Which engineering practices does Lightning AI ask for?
Platform Engineering is named in 25% of job postings at Lightning AI, followed by HPC (18%), Machine Learning (14%), CI/CD (10%).
Platform Engineering
13 25%
HPC
9 18%
CI/CD
5 10%
AI Agents
4 8%
Fine-tuning
4 8%
GitOps
3 6%
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What does each Lightning AI team work with?
The technologies each team's postings require most often, with the number of postings that require them.
AI/ML
7 postingsDevOps
6 postingsBackend
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How much does Lightning AI pay by technology?
Median stated pay of the postings that name each technology, against the median of all Lightning AI postings with stated pay: $220k across 45 postings.
| Technology | Postings with pay | Median | vs company median |
|---|---|---|---|
| PyTorch | 45 | $220k | 0% |
| Python | 20 | $220k | 0% |
| Kubernetes | 14 | $236k | +7% |
| Go | 9 | $250k | +14% |
| AWS | 8 | $233k | +6% |
| Linux | 8 | $205k | −7% |
| GCP | 7 | $245k | +11% |
| Azure | 6 | $236k | +7% |
| Ray | 5 | $250k | +14% |
How is the Lightning AI 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.
How modern is the Lightning AI stack?
Lightning AI scores 84 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: 3; legacy ones: 0.
How common is the Lightning AI stack in its industry?
Share of the 229 companies in the same industries, whose stack Alion knows, that use each technology.
Lightning AI products in its job postings
Postings at Lightning AI name its own products. They describe what the company makes, so they are left out of the stack above.
Companies with a stack like Lightning AI
Questions about the Lightning AI tech stack
What programming languages does Lightning AI use?
The languages named in Lightning AI job postings are Python (43%), Go (20%), SQL (8%), Rust (6%), Java (4%), as a share of the 51 postings of the last 12 months.
Does Lightning AI use PyTorch?
Yes. PyTorch is named in 51 of 51 job postings (100%) and required in 13 of them.
What cloud and platforms does Lightning AI use?
The cloud and platforms named in Lightning AI job postings are Kubernetes (16), Linux (11), AWS (9) (postings in brackets).
What skills do you need for a AI/ML job at Lightning AI?
AI/ML postings at Lightning AI most often require PyTorch (5), CUDA (4), CUDA Toolkit (4), Kubernetes (4), out of 7 postings in the last 12 months.
Is the Lightning AI tech stack changing?
Yes. CloudFormation, Java, Rust, Function Calling first appeared in Lightning AI job postings in the last six months.
How modern is the Lightning AI tech stack?
Lightning AI scores 84 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: 3; legacy ones: 0.
How does Alion know the Lightning AI tech stack?
Alion reads every job posting Lightning AI publishes and tags the technologies each one names. The figures on this page count the 51 postings of the last 12 months and were updated on Sep 27, 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, "Lightning AI tech stack: 99 technologies from 51 job postings", as of Sep 27, 2026. https://alion.io/company/lightning-ai/technologies