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Qualcomm tech stack

Qualcomm builds mostly with Python, C++, Java, Perl. Its stack also includes Rest-Assured, Linux, RTOS, PyTorch. Rest-Assured is named in 3,062 of the 3,063 job postings Qualcomm published in the last 12 months (100%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of Qualcomm, updated Nov 11, 2026.

Source: Alion Coverage: the company's job postings of the last 12 months Nov 11, 2026
Technologies in use
592
Postings analysed
3,063
Open now
1,729
Modernity
75 /100
New in 6 months
8

What programming languages does Qualcomm use?

Python is named in 56% of job postings at Qualcomm, followed by C++ (42%), Java (21%), Perl (15%).

Python 1702 56% required in 63% · 972 open now · since Mar 2025
C++ 1274 42% required in 68% · 720 open now · since Mar 2025
Java 633 21% required in 58% · 335 open now · since Mar 2025
Perl 458 15% required in 53% · 265 open now · since Apr 2025
SystemVerilog 353 12% required in 75% · 209 open now · since May 2025
Verilog 349 11% required in 66% · 205 open now · since May 2025
MATLAB 140 5% required in 57% · 88 open now · since Nov 2025
VHDL 124 4% required in 56% · 74 open now · since Jul 2025
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SQL82
C#79
JavaScript71
C65
SystemC62
Assembly52
Bash50
TypeScript35
Rust32
PowerShell26
Go25
Embedded C24
Kotlin17
TCL Scripting16
Node JS15
GLSL6
Ruby5
Visual Basic5
Cython5
F#4
HLSL3
Apex2
PHP2
ABAP1
Groovy1
Mojo1

What frameworks and libraries does Qualcomm use?

Rest-Assured is named in 100% of job postings at Qualcomm, followed by PyTorch (7%), UVM (6%), TensorFlow (5%).

Rest-Assured 3062 100% required in 26% · 1729 open now · since Mar 2025
PyTorch 212 7% required in 51% · 124 open now · since Mar 2025
UVM 192 6% required in 85% · 106 open now · since Jul 2025
TensorFlow 154 5% required in 37% · 80 open now · since Mar 2025
TensorFlow C++ 104 3% required in 45% · 54 open now · since Oct 2025
Transformers 57 2% required in 65% · 34 open now · since Jul 2025
ONNX Runtime 43 1% required in 42% · 23 open now · since Dec 2025
LiteRT 41 1% required in 51% · 22 open now · since Oct 2025
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OpenCL40
CUDA35
OpenGL34
React.js29
LangChain28
TFLite26
ExecuTorch22
MLIR21
Keras20
Triton17
NumPy16
Angular14
Apache TVM13
Pandas12
Django12
LangGraph11
Scikit-learn11
GStreamer11
OpenCV10
ROS10
SGLang10
Pytest9
FastAPI9
JAX9
Flask8
Unreal Engine8
OpenTelemetry7
Qt7
Ray7
LlamaIndex7
Unity7
XLA7

And 65 more, each named in fewer postings.

What databases does Qualcomm use?

PostgreSQL is named in 1% of job postings at Qualcomm, followed by MySQL (<1%), Oracle (<1%), ElasticSearch (<1%).

PostgreSQL 17 1% required in 65% · 14 open now · since Jan 2026
MySQL 14 <1% required in 64% · 10 open now · since Jan 2026
Oracle 12 <1% required in 75% · 7 open now · since Oct 2025
ElasticSearch 12 <1% required in 58% · 10 open now · since Feb 2026
Redis 10 <1% required in 10% · 5 open now · since Mar 2026
MS SQL 9 <1% required in 33% · 5 open now · since Jan 2026
Delta Lake 8 <1% required in 100% · 5 open now · since Mar 2026
Snowflake 7 <1% required in 43% · 5 open now · since Jan 2026
Show all (22)
OpenSearch6
Vertica5
Memcached4
Qdrant4
MongoDB3
Cassandra2
ClickHouse2
Milvus2
Chroma2
Apache Solr1
Neo4j1
Google BigQuery1
SAP HANA1
SQLite1

What cloud and platforms does Qualcomm use?

Linux is named in 24% of job postings at Qualcomm, followed by RTOS (7%), Windows (7%), Kubernetes (4%).

Linux 725 24% required in 70% · 395 open now · since Mar 2025
RTOS 224 7% required in 65% · 116 open now · since Jun 2025
Windows 204 7% required in 67% · 120 open now · since Mar 2025
Kubernetes 109 4% required in 45% · 68 open now · since Oct 2025
AWS 99 3% required in 60% · 59 open now · since Nov 2025
Unix 95 3% required in 63% · 39 open now · since Jul 2025
GitHub 67 2% required in 57% · 37 open now · since Nov 2025
Azure 60 2% required in 47% · 39 open now · since Sep 2025
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Power BI51
GCP48
Ubuntu47
GitHub Actions45
Tableau44
FreeRTOS31
vLLM25
Databricks24
Grafana23
GitLab23
Debian22
Datadog22
Splunk22
.NET20
GitLab CI20
DirectX20
Hugging Face18
Amazon EKS17
Azure DevOps13
U-Boot12
Synopsys HAPS12
Cadence Protium12
Amazon S311
Windows Server10
Amazon CloudWatch9
Red Hat9
Fedora9
Apache Kafka9
Amazon EC28
Spark8
MLFlow6
SonarQube6

And 55 more, each named in fewer postings.

What developer tools does Qualcomm use?

Git is named in 8% of job postings at Qualcomm, followed by Formal Verification (6%), Docker (4%), Jenkins (3%).

Git 253 8% required in 43% · 146 open now · since Mar 2025
Formal Verification 178 6% required in 62% · 94 open now · since Jul 2025
Docker 112 4% required in 37% · 63 open now · since Sep 2025
Jenkins 90 3% required in 56% · 49 open now · since Sep 2025
Synopsys PrimeTime 78 3% required in 82% · 39 open now · since Apr 2025
ONNX 69 2% required in 74% · 35 open now · since Mar 2025
Synopsys Fusion Compiler 57 2% required in 79% · 28 open now · since Jul 2025
Copilot 47 2% required in 43% · 21 open now · since Mar 2025
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Siemens Veloce46
Cadence Allegro45
Gerrit43
Cadence Palladium41
Microsoft Excel40
QEMU39
Terraform36
Model Context Protocol36
Rest API35
Advantest / Teradyne ATE31
LLVM31
Synopsys HSPICE30
KVM29
Synopsys ZeBu29
Mentor Xpedition28
Prometheus28
Claude Code28
Synopsys Design Compiler27
Ansys RedHawk26
Cadence Innovus26
Synopsys Verdi24
llama.cpp24
JTAG Debuggers23
ANSYS23
Ansible22
CMake22
Synopsys VC Formal21
Synopsys SpyGlass20
WinDbg19
JMP18
DirectX 1218
Cadence Virtuoso17

And 159 more, each named in fewer postings.

What AI and ML technologies does Qualcomm use?

LLM is named in 6% of job postings at Qualcomm, followed by Claude (1%), BERT (1%), VLM (1%).

LLM 169 6% required in 67% · 104 open now · since Jul 2025
Claude 24 1% required in 29% · 12 open now · since Feb 2026
BERT 18 1% required in 39% · 10 open now · since Feb 2026
VLM 17 1% required in 71% · 12 open now · since Jul 2025
Llama 14 <1% required in 50% · 11 open now · since Mar 2026
PEFT 11 <1% required in 27% · 7 open now · since Jan 2026
Qwen 10 <1% required in 60% · 8 open now · since Apr 2026
LoRA 9 <1% required in 67% · 5 open now · since Jan 2026
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ChatGPT8
Stable Diffusion5
DeepSeek4
Gaussian Splatting3
Gemini3
Mistral3
Gemma2
GPTQ2
AWQ2
CLIP1
Mamba1
Veo1
DINOv21
Depth Anything1
Mixtral1

Which engineering practices does Qualcomm ask for?

Machine Learning is named in 13% of job postings at Qualcomm, followed by CI/CD (9%), AI Agents (6%), Edge AI (5%).

Machine Learning 393 13% required in 84% · 231 open now · since May 2025
CI/CD 265 9% required in 64% · 152 open now · since Mar 2025
AI Agents 177 6% required in 83% · 98 open now · since Sep 2025
Edge AI 140 5% required in 82% · 82 open now · since Sep 2025
Computer Vision 131 4% required in 83% · 79 open now · since Jul 2025
Quantization 108 4% required in 68% · 65 open now · since Jul 2025
Wi-Fi 107 3% required in 73% · 69 open now · since Nov 2025
Multimodal AI 84 3% required in 85% · 51 open now · since Sep 2025
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RAG72
Fine-tuning45
HPC37
Platform Engineering36
TCP/IP36
Agentic Workflows34
KV Cache33
NLP31
IAM29
Prompt Engineering28
Verification & Validation26
Reinforcement Learning25
Sensor Fusion23
Knowledge Distillation19
Model Distillation19
Anomaly Detection18
GitOps18
FMEA17
Statistical Process Control16
DHCP16
Function Calling16
Mixture of Experts15
Speculative Decoding14
ETL/ELT13
Multi-Agent Systems13
Diffusion Models12
Recommender Systems12
VLAN12
DNS11
Incident Management10
Vision-Language-Action10
Configuration Management10

And 74 more, each named in fewer postings.

What does each Qualcomm team work with?

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

Hardware

907 postings
Python293
Rest-Assured252
SystemVerilog234
Verilog208
C++195
UVM145

Industrial Engineering

623 postings
Rest-Assured221
Python211
C++171
Linux101
Perl85
Java69

Backend

280 postings
C++186
Python160
Linux121
Java94
Rest-Assured56
Git32

AI/ML

250 postings
Python132
C++121
PyTorch65
Rest-Assured56
LLM51
Linux37

DevOps

210 postings
Python103
Linux81
C++77
Rest-Assured48
Java44
AWS22

QA

89 postings
Python40
C++25
Java23
Linux19
Rest-Assured18
Advantest / Teradyne ATE4

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How much does Qualcomm pay by technology?

Median stated pay of the postings that name each technology, against the median of all Qualcomm postings with stated pay: $204k across 1,223 postings.

TechnologyPostings with payMedianvs company median
Rest-Assured1223$204k0%
Python651$195k−4%
C++528$194k−5%
Linux265$194k−5%
Java198$202k−1%
Perl157$202k−1%
Verilog137$183k−10%
SystemVerilog129$179k−12%
Windows99$212k+4%
PyTorch94$211k+4%

How is the Qualcomm 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
Synopsys VCSOct 2026
OutlinesOct 2026
ClickHouseOct 2026
BitbucketSep 2026
KongSep 2026
MLC LLMSep 2026
ROCmSep 2026
OpenVINOSep 2026
Rising
PyTorch5% → 7%
Not named for 6 months
FivetranApr 2026
LocalizationMay 2026
SOAPMay 2026
CoAPApr 2026
MaestroMay 2026
ApexMay 2026
OpenStackApr 2026
HadoopApr 2026

How modern is the Qualcomm stack?

Cutting-edge AI adopter 75/100

Qualcomm scores 75 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: 23; legacy ones: 1.

How common is the Qualcomm stack in its industry?

Share of the 546 companies in the same industries, whose stack Alion knows, that use each technology.

Rest-Assured2%
Python70%
C++64%
Linux57%
Java23%
Perl18%
SystemVerilog24%
Verilog26%
RTOS26%
PyTorch29%

What sets Qualcomm apart

Rest-Assured2%
TFLite3%
Datadog4%
Debian4%
ExecuTorch2%

Questions about the Qualcomm tech stack

What programming languages does Qualcomm use?

The languages named in Qualcomm job postings are Python (56%), C++ (42%), Java (21%), Perl (15%), SystemVerilog (12%), as a share of the 3,063 postings of the last 12 months.

Does Qualcomm use Rest-Assured?

Yes. Rest-Assured is named in 3,062 of 3,063 job postings (100%) and required in 809 of them.

What cloud and platforms does Qualcomm use?

The cloud and platforms named in Qualcomm job postings are Linux (725), RTOS (224), Windows (204) (postings in brackets).

What skills do you need for a Hardware job at Qualcomm?

Hardware postings at Qualcomm most often require Python (293), Rest-Assured (252), SystemVerilog (234), Verilog (208), out of 907 postings in the last 12 months.

Is the Qualcomm tech stack changing?

Yes. Synopsys VCS, Outlines, ClickHouse, Bitbucket first appeared in Qualcomm job postings in the last six months.

How modern is the Qualcomm tech stack?

Qualcomm scores 75 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: 23; legacy ones: 1.

How does Alion know the Qualcomm tech stack?

Alion reads every job posting Qualcomm publishes and tags the technologies each one names. The figures on this page count the 3,063 postings of the last 12 months and were updated on Nov 11, 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, "Qualcomm tech stack: 592 technologies from 3,063 job postings", as of Nov 11, 2026. https://alion.io/company/qualcomm/technologies

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