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 2,017 of the 2,018 job postings Qualcomm published in the last 12 months (100%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of Qualcomm, updated Sep 26, 2026.

Source: Alion Coverage: the company's job postings of the last 12 months Sep 26, 2026
Technologies in use
533
Postings analysed
2,018
Open now
1,523
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++ (41%), Java (21%), Perl (16%).

Python 1126 56% required in 65% · 860 open now · since Mar 2025
C++ 823 41% required in 69% · 628 open now · since Mar 2025
Java 423 21% required in 60% · 315 open now · since Mar 2025
Perl 313 16% required in 57% · 249 open now · since Apr 2025
Verilog 231 11% required in 70% · 187 open now · since May 2025
SystemVerilog 230 11% required in 76% · 185 open now · since May 2025
MATLAB 95 5% required in 64% · 71 open now · since Nov 2025
VHDL 83 4% required in 66% · 70 open now · since Jul 2025
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C#62
SQL60
JavaScript55
C38
Assembly37
SystemC36
Bash33
TypeScript24
Go19
Rust19
PowerShell18
TCL Scripting17
Embedded C11
Node JS10
Kotlin9
GLSL5
Visual Basic4
Ruby3
HLSL2
PHP2
ABAP1
Apex1
F#1
Cython1

What frameworks and libraries does Qualcomm use?

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

Rest-Assured 2017 100% required in 28% · 1522 open now · since Mar 2025
PyTorch 139 7% required in 52% · 101 open now · since Mar 2025
UVM 122 6% required in 84% · 93 open now · since Jul 2025
PyTorch C++ 106 5% required in 48% · 76 open now · since Mar 2025
TensorFlow 104 5% required in 42% · 76 open now · since Mar 2025
TensorFlow C++ 74 4% required in 47% · 56 open now · since Oct 2025
CUDA 34 2% required in 18% · 30 open now · since Sep 2025
Transformers 33 2% required in 64% · 20 open now · since Jul 2025
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OpenCL32
OpenGL30
LiteRT26
ONNX Runtime25
LangChain23
React.js22
TFLite15
Triton13
ExecuTorch13
ROS12
Keras12
LangGraph10
Pandas10
NumPy10
MLIR10
GStreamer9
Apache TVM9
Angular8
Scikit-learn8
FastAPI8
Ray7
Django7
ROS27
Flask6
SGLang6
JAX6
Unreal Engine6
Unity6
ASP.NET Core5
OpenCV5
OpenTelemetry5
PoC Library5

And 56 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%), Redis (<1%).

PostgreSQL 13 1% required in 54% · 8 open now · since Jan 2026
MySQL 12 1% required in 67% · 10 open now · since Jan 2026
Oracle 10 <1% required in 80% · 10 open now · since Oct 2025
Redis 9 <1% required in 11% · 7 open now · since Mar 2026
MS SQL 8 <1% required in 38% · 8 open now · since Jan 2026
Delta Lake 7 <1% required in 100% · 7 open now · since Mar 2026
Snowflake 7 <1% required in 43% · 6 open now · since Jan 2026
ElasticSearch 7 <1% required in 29% · 6 open now · since Mar 2026
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OpenSearch4
Vertica4
Memcached3
Qdrant3
Cassandra2
Milvus2
MongoDB2
Neo4j1
BigQuery1
Chroma1
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 478 24% required in 70% · 364 open now · since Mar 2025
RTOS 144 7% required in 62% · 95 open now · since Sep 2025
Windows 138 7% required in 66% · 114 open now · since Mar 2025
Kubernetes 82 4% required in 43% · 63 open now · since Nov 2025
AWS 77 4% required in 61% · 59 open now · since Nov 2025
Unix 54 3% required in 57% · 39 open now · since Jul 2025
Azure 47 2% required in 51% · 33 open now · since Jan 2026
GitHub 45 2% required in 67% · 32 open now · since Nov 2025
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GCP37
CUDA Toolkit35
Ubuntu33
GitHub Actions32
Power BI28
Tableau23
FreeRTOS22
Databricks20
vLLM20
.NET18
DirectX18
Grafana15
Debian15
Datadog14
GitLab CI13
Amazon EKS12
Hugging Face12
Splunk12
GitLab11
Amazon S39
Azure DevOps8
Windows Server8
Amazon CloudWatch7
Amazon EC26
Spark6
Red Hat6
Fedora6
Synopsys HAPS6
Cadence Protium6
LocalAI5
MLFlow5
Figma5

And 45 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 (5%), Docker (4%), Synopsys PrimeTime (3%).

Git 152 8% required in 45% · 119 open now · since Mar 2025
Formal Verification 108 5% required in 65% · 81 open now · since Jul 2025
Docker 79 4% required in 32% · 60 open now · since Sep 2025
Synopsys PrimeTime 58 3% required in 86% · 52 open now · since Apr 2025
Jenkins 57 3% required in 60% · 49 open now · since Nov 2025
ONNX 50 2% required in 70% · 36 open now · since Mar 2025
Synopsys Fusion Compiler 38 2% required in 82% · 32 open now · since Jul 2025
Copilot 32 2% required in 47% · 21 open now · since Mar 2025
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Siemens Veloce29
Cadence Allegro28
QEMU28
Model Context Protocol28
Gerrit25
Microsoft Excel25
Cadence Palladium25
Terraform24
Synopsys HSPICE22
Synopsys Design Compiler22
LLVM22
KVM21
Synopsys ZeBu20
Synopsys Verdi18
llama.cpp18
Ansys RedHawk17
Synopsys VC Formal17
Prometheus17
Claude Code17
Mentor Xpedition16
Rest API16
Synopsys SpyGlass16
Cadence Innovus15
JTAG Debuggers14
Ansible14
CMake14
WinDbg12
DirectX 1212
Cadence Virtuoso11
Siemens Calibre11
Helm11
Synopsys FineSim10

And 134 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%), VLM (1%), BERT (1%).

LLM 122 6% required in 66% · 90 open now · since Jul 2025
Claude 19 1% required in 37% · 10 open now · since Feb 2026
VLM 14 1% required in 71% · 10 open now · since Jul 2025
BERT 12 1% required in 50% · 7 open now · since Feb 2026
Llama 10 <1% required in 60% · 8 open now · since Mar 2026
Qwen 9 <1% required in 67% · 7 open now · since Apr 2026
ChatGPT 8 <1% required in 50% · 7 open now · since Apr 2026
PEFT 5 <1% required in 60% · 2 open now · since Feb 2026
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DeepSeek3
LoRA3
Gaussian Splatting3
Gemini3
Stable Diffusion3
Gemma2
GPTQ2
AWQ2
Mistral2
CLIP1
Mamba1
Veo1
DINOv21
Depth Anything1

Which engineering practices does Qualcomm ask for?

Machine Learning is named in 14% of job postings at Qualcomm, followed by CI/CD (9%), Edge AI (7%), AI Agents (6%).

Machine Learning 282 14% required in 86% · 203 open now · since Jul 2025
CI/CD 184 9% required in 65% · 142 open now · since Mar 2025
Edge AI 132 7% required in 86% · 109 open now · since Sep 2025
AI Agents 123 6% required in 82% · 82 open now · since Sep 2025
Quantization 82 4% required in 67% · 57 open now · since Jul 2025
Computer Vision 79 4% required in 86% · 59 open now · since Jul 2025
Wi-Fi 77 4% required in 71% · 59 open now · since Nov 2025
Multimodal AI 59 3% required in 85% · 43 open now · since Sep 2025
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RAG53
Fine-tuning31
Platform Engineering27
Agentic Workflows26
TCP/IP26
HPC23
NLP22
Prompt Engineering21
IAM20
Sensor Fusion17
Reinforcement Learning17
Anomaly Detection15
KV Cache15
Knowledge Distillation14
ETL/ELT13
SLI/SLO/SLA12
Diffusion Models12
Model Distillation12
DHCP11
GitOps10
Multi-Agent Systems10
Tool Use10
Speech Recognition8
Vision-Language-Action8
Recommender Systems8
DNS8
Shift-Left7
Text-to-Speech7
Reinforcement Learning7
Embeddings7
VLAN7
Speculative Decoding6

And 63 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

606 postings
Python189
Rest-Assured177
SystemVerilog153
Verilog141
C++124
Perl96

Industrial Engineering

378 postings
Rest-Assured139
Python136
C++95
Linux59
Perl58
Java37

AI/ML

201 postings
Python108
C++95
PyTorch52
Rest-Assured49
LLM39
PyTorch C++38

Backend

191 postings
C++126
Python114
Linux81
Java66
Rest-Assured41
Git22

DevOps

166 postings
Python78
Linux63
C++60
Rest-Assured41
Java33
Kubernetes18

Product

63 postings
Linux14
Windows8
LLM7
RTOS6
.NET4
C#4

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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: $210k across 824 postings.

TechnologyPostings with payMedianvs company median
Rest-Assured824$210k0%
Python426$202k−4%
C++337$201k−4%
Linux183$202k−4%
Java143$202k−4%
Perl106$202k−4%
Verilog92$192k−8%
SystemVerilog81$183k−13%
Windows66$220k+5%
PyTorch63$211k+1%

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
DeepSeekSep 2026
Next.jsSep 2026
PHPSep 2026
ZigbeeAug 2026
CognosAug 2026
GalileoAug 2026
Layer 2Aug 2026
ClineAug 2026
Rising
Edge AI5% → 8%
Falling
Machine Learning16% → 10%
Windows9% → 6%
AWS6% → 3%
GitHub4% → 1%
Quantization5% → 3%
Azure4% → 2%
Not named for 6 months
RLHFMar 2026
Reward ModelingMar 2026
HLSLMar 2026
WebotsMar 2026
CentOS StreamMar 2026
DeepSpeedJan 2026
FSDPJan 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: 22; legacy ones: 1.

How common is the Qualcomm stack in its industry?

Share of the 123 companies in the same industries, whose stack Alion knows, that use each technology.

Rest-Assured4%
Python76%
C++71%
Linux68%
Java27%
Perl37%
Verilog46%
SystemVerilog46%
RTOS40%
PyTorch37%

What sets Qualcomm apart

Rest-Assured4%
DirectX4%

Questions about the Qualcomm tech stack

What programming languages does Qualcomm use?

The languages named in Qualcomm job postings are Python (56%), C++ (41%), Java (21%), Perl (16%), Verilog (11%), as a share of the 2,018 postings of the last 12 months.

Does Qualcomm use Rest-Assured?

Yes. Rest-Assured is named in 2,017 of 2,018 job postings (100%) and required in 560 of them.

What cloud and platforms does Qualcomm use?

The cloud and platforms named in Qualcomm job postings are Linux (478), RTOS (144), Windows (138) (postings in brackets).

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

Hardware postings at Qualcomm most often require Python (189), Rest-Assured (177), SystemVerilog (153), Verilog (141), out of 606 postings in the last 12 months.

Is the Qualcomm tech stack changing?

Yes. DeepSeek, Next.js, PHP, Zigbee 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: 22; 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 2,018 postings of the last 12 months and were updated on Sep 26, 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: 533 technologies from 2,018 job postings", as of Sep 26, 2026. https://alion.io/company/qualcomm/technologies

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