Pennsylvania State University
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Pennsylvania State University tech stack

Pennsylvania State University builds mostly with Python, MATLAB, C++, Java. Its stack also includes Linux, Windows, PyTorch, PostgreSQL. Python is named in 129 of the 379 job postings Pennsylvania State University published in the last 12 months (34%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of Pennsylvania State University, updated Nov 13, 2026.

Source: Alion Coverage: the company's job postings of the last 12 months Nov 13, 2026
Technologies in use
252
Postings analysed
379
Open now
242
Modernity
71 /100
New in 6 months
8

What programming languages does Pennsylvania State University use?

Python is named in 34% of job postings at Pennsylvania State University, followed by MATLAB (18%), C++ (15%), Java (6%).

Python 129 34% required in 74% · 87 open now · since Sep 2023
MATLAB 70 18% required in 61% · 48 open now · since Sep 2023
C++ 56 15% required in 64% · 46 open now · since Sep 2023
Java 24 6% required in 83% · 18 open now · since Aug 2024
SQL 22 6% required in 64% · 14 open now · since Jul 2026
Stata 8 2% required in 88% · 3 open now · since Mar 2024
C# 8 2% required in 75% · 4 open now · since Mar 2026
Fortran 8 2% required in 63% · 6 open now · since Jul 2026
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JavaScript8
PowerShell8
Bash7
Rust7
SAS5
SPSS5
C4
PHP4
Ada3
VHDL3
TypeScript2
R2
Embedded C2
Kotlin2
Verilog2
Apex1
Go1
Assembly1

What frameworks and libraries does Pennsylvania State University use?

PyTorch is named in 3% of job postings at Pennsylvania State University, followed by TensorFlow (2%), NumPy (2%), FastAPI (1%).

PyTorch 10 3% required in 60% · 8 open now · since Jan 2026
TensorFlow 9 2% required in 78% · 7 open now · since May 2026
NumPy 7 2% required in 71% · 6 open now · since May 2026
FastAPI 5 1% required in 20% · 4 open now · since Jul 2026
Matplotlib 4 1% required in 50% · 4 open now · since Jul 2026
Pandas 4 1% required in 50% · 3 open now · since Aug 2026
Transformers 4 1% required in 50% · 3 open now · since Jan 2026
JAX 3 1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Aug 2026
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SciPy3
CUDA3
Unity3
Plotly2
Scikit-learn2
TensorFlow C++2
Feast2
LangChain2
PostGIS2
Pytest2
React.js2
Tailwind CSS2
ZeroMQ2
Bootstrap1
Cartographer1
LIME1
Psychopy1
Qiskit1
Ray1
Seaborn1
Visualforce1
Vue.js1
Angular1
Flask1
MOOS-IvP1
OpenCV1
Streamlit1

What databases does Pennsylvania State University use?

PostgreSQL is named in 2% of job postings at Pennsylvania State University, followed by MySQL (2%), Amazon Aurora (1%), Cassandra (1%).

PostgreSQL 9 2% required in 33% · 9 open now · since Jul 2026
MySQL 7 2% required in 43% · 6 open now · since Jul 2026
Amazon Aurora 2 1% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Aug 2026
Cassandra 2 1% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Aug 2026
DynamoDB 2 1% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Aug 2026
Neo4j 2 1% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Aug 2026
Redis 2 1% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Aug 2026
Oracle 2 1% required in 50% · 1 open now · since Sep 2026
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Amazon Redshift2
Google BigQuery2
InfluxDB2
MariaDB2
Snowflake2
MS SQL1

What cloud and platforms does Pennsylvania State University use?

Linux is named in 13% of job postings at Pennsylvania State University, followed by Windows (8%), Kubernetes (8%), AWS (4%).

Linux 48 13% required in 83% · 33 open now · since Jul 2025
Windows 29 8% required in 79% · 15 open now · since Jan 2026
Kubernetes 29 8% required in 59% · 26 open now · since Jul 2025
AWS 16 4% required in 31% · 13 open now · since Apr 2025
GitLab 15 4% required in 53% · 13 open now · since Jul 2025
Azure 14 4% required in 36% · 12 open now · since Jul 2026
GCP 12 3% required in 92% · 10 open now · since Jul 2026
VMWare 10 3% required in 50% · 7 open now · since Jul 2026
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Power BI9
Red Hat8
Splunk7
Bitbucket7
Grafana6
Unix5
GitHub5
Active Directory5
Label Studio4
Kali Linux3
Windows Server3
Bamboo3
LDAP3
Rancher3
Amazon S32
GitLab CI2
SIEM2
SonarQube2
Tableau2
ActiveMQ2
Amazon ECS2
Apache Kafka2
Agentforce1
Amazon EKS1
Anthropic1
Azure DevOps1
Figma1
GitHub Actions1
OpenAI1
PubMed1
.NET1
Bioconductor1

And 4 more, each named in fewer postings.

What developer tools does Pennsylvania State University use?

Git is named in 8% of job postings at Pennsylvania State University, followed by SolidWorks (7%), Docker (7%), Ansible (5%).

Git 29 8% required in 45% · 24 open now · since Jul 2025
SolidWorks 27 7% required in 41% · 21 open now · since Apr 2024
Docker 25 7% required in 36% · 21 open now · since Jul 2025
Ansible 18 5% required in 44% · 11 open now · since Jul 2025
Microsoft Excel 14 4% required in 86% · 10 open now · since Jul 2026
Canva 14 4% required in 50% · 10 open now · since Sep 2024
Adobe Photoshop 12 3% required in 58% · 9 open now · since Feb 2026
Simulink 10 3% required in 60% · 9 open now · since Apr 2025
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AutoCAD9
Prometheus5
Puppet5
CVAT4
Copilot4
WordPress4
Helm4
DVC4
Podman4
Ghidra3
Hyper-V3
QEMU3
Cameo Systems Modeler3
Nessus3
Siemens NX3
Terraform3
Adobe After Effects2
Adobe Premiere Pro2
Fusion 3602
Hydra2
Rest API2
NVLink2
Vitis2
Xilinx Vivado2
CMake2
Grype2
InfiniBand2
OpenMP2
OpenStack2
SLURM2
Trivy2
VictoriaMetrics2

And 26 more, each named in fewer postings.

What AI and ML technologies does Pennsylvania State University use?

LLM is named in 2% of job postings at Pennsylvania State University, followed by ChatGPT (1%).

LLM 7 2% required in 86% · 5 open now · since Jan 2026
ChatGPT 3 1% required in 67% · since Jul 2026

Which engineering practices does Pennsylvania State University ask for?

Speech Recognition is named in 22% of job postings at Pennsylvania State University, followed by Machine Learning (16%), CI/CD (7%), Computer Vision (4%).

Speech Recognition 82 22% required in 59% · 49 open now · since May 2024
Machine Learning 59 16% required in 86% · 39 open now · since Feb 2025
CI/CD 27 7% required in 78% · 22 open now · since Jul 2025
Computer Vision 14 4% required in 93% · 6 open now · since Jul 2026
HPC 13 3% required in 85% · 10 open now · since Jul 2026
AI Agents 12 3% required in 83% · 7 open now · since Jul 2026
Multimodal AI 9 2% required in 67% · 4 open now · since Jul 2026
Verification & Validation 6 2% required in 100% · 5 open now · since Jul 2026
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Digital Twin6
Reinforcement Learning5
MBSE5
TCP/IP5
Cell Culture4
Flow Cytometry4
Good Clinical Practice4
DNS4
Time Series4
Wi-Fi4
Agentic Workflows3
Anomaly Detection3
Inertial Navigation3
PCR3
Single-Cell Sequencing3
qPCR3
NLP3
Configuration Management3
ETL/ELT3
Red Teaming3
CAPA2
CVD2
Molecular Cloning2
OCR2
Sensor Fusion2
Western Blot2
Electron Microscopy (SEM/TEM)2
BGP2
Explainable AI2
Feature Store2
Fine-tuning2
PKI2

And 24 more, each named in fewer postings.

What other technologies does Pennsylvania State University use?

StateFlow is named in 1% of job postings at Pennsylvania State University.

StateFlow 2 1% optional · 2 open now · since Oct 2026

What does each Pennsylvania State University team work with?

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

Industrial Engineering

67 postings
Python23
MATLAB20
C++8
Java7
SolidWorks7
C#3

Education

55 postings
Python6
SQL3
C++2
Hydra2
MySQL2
SAS2

Science & Research

52 postings
Python12
LLM5
Stata5
Linux3
Git2
PyTorch2

Early Careers

25 postings
MATLAB4
C++3
Canva2

AI/ML

19 postings
Python15
CVAT4
Label Studio4
Linux4
SQL4
MATLAB3

Backend

19 postings
C++10
Linux10
Kubernetes8
Python8
Docker6
Git6

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How much does Pennsylvania State University pay by technology?

Median stated pay of the postings that name each technology, against the median of all Pennsylvania State University postings with stated pay: $175k across 194 postings.

TechnologyPostings with payMedianvs company median
Python84$201k+15%
MATLAB53$201k+15%
C++44$201k+15%
Linux36$175k0%
Kubernetes27$192k+10%
Windows23$198k+13%
Java19$201k+15%
SQL17$201k+15%
AWS15$231k+32%
GitLab14$175k0%

How is the Pennsylvania State 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
Good Clinical PracticeNov 2026
VitisOct 2026
Xilinx VivadoOct 2026
VHDLOct 2026
Embedded COct 2026
KotlinOct 2026
StateFlowOct 2026
VerilogOct 2026
Rising
Microsoft Excel1% → 6%
AI Agents1% → 5%
Falling
Python46% → 27%
MATLAB30% → 11%
Linux19% → 8%
Ansible11% → 1%
GitLab10% → 0%
Kubernetes14% → 5%
Java11% → 3%
C++20% → 13%

How modern is the Pennsylvania State University stack?

Modern AI adopter 71/100

Pennsylvania State University scores 71 out of 100 (Modern). The score averages how current each technology in the stack is and adds weight for AI adoption. AI technologies in the stack: 2; legacy ones: 0.

How common is the Pennsylvania State University stack in its industry?

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

Python36%
MATLAB11%
C++12%
Linux21%
Kubernetes10%
Windows29%
Java10%
SQL29%
AWS16%
GitLab4%

What sets Pennsylvania State University apart

GitLab4%
Fortran3%
Red Hat2%
Bitbucket1%
NumPy3%
Rust2%
Splunk2%
Grafana4%
FastAPI3%
C2%

Questions about the Pennsylvania State University tech stack

What programming languages does Pennsylvania State University use?

The languages named in Pennsylvania State University job postings are Python (34%), MATLAB (18%), C++ (15%), Java (6%), SQL (6%), as a share of the 379 postings of the last 12 months.

Does Pennsylvania State University use PyTorch?

Yes. PyTorch is named in 10 of 379 job postings (3%) and required in 6 of them.

What cloud and platforms does Pennsylvania State University use?

The cloud and platforms named in Pennsylvania State University job postings are Linux (48), Windows (29), Kubernetes (29) (postings in brackets).

What skills do you need for a Industrial Engineering job at Pennsylvania State University?

Industrial Engineering postings at Pennsylvania State University most often require Python (23), MATLAB (20), C++ (8), Java (7), out of 67 postings in the last 12 months.

Is the Pennsylvania State University tech stack changing?

Yes. Good Clinical Practice, Vitis, Xilinx Vivado, VHDL first appeared in Pennsylvania State University job postings in the last six months.

How modern is the Pennsylvania State University tech stack?

Pennsylvania State University scores 71 out of 100 (Modern). The score averages how current each technology in the stack is and adds weight for AI adoption. AI technologies in the stack: 2; legacy ones: 0.

How does Alion know the Pennsylvania State University tech stack?

Alion reads every job posting Pennsylvania State University publishes and tags the technologies each one names. The figures on this page count the 379 postings of the last 12 months and were updated on Nov 13, 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, "Pennsylvania State University tech stack: 252 technologies from 379 job postings", as of Nov 13, 2026. https://alion.io/company/psu-edu/technologies

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