# Companies using CMake

15,419 companies in our data use CMake, and 4,876 of them name it in job posts they wrote. Its share of job posts is shrinking, though 7,006 job posts still named it from October 2025 to August 2026. Software Engineer roles mention it most.

Data as of November 9, 2026. Source: Sumble.

## Which companies name CMake in the most job posts?

Luxoft has posted more jobs naming CMake than any other company: 740. Of the five companies in the table, NVIDIA has the most employees who list it on their profiles: 278.

| Company | Job posts | People | Recent job post |
|---|---:|---:|---|
| [Luxoft](https://sumble.com/orgs/luxoft) | 740 | 114 | "CI/CD, CMake, unit testing frameworks (GoogleTest or similar)" (hands-on development manager (c++), Nov 4, 2026) |
| [NVIDIA](https://sumble.com/orgs/nvidia) | 511 | 278 | "This should include extensive experience with CMake, Bazel or similar." (Senior Manager, Developer Infrastructure and Build Engineering, Oct 23, 2026) |
| [AMD](https://sumble.com/orgs/amd) | 345 | 184 | "…Collaborate closely with compiler developers to optimize build systems (e.g., CMake, Ninja) to minimize the "developer-to-feedback" loop times, leveraging your expertise in automation and…" (Staff DevOps Engineer - Compiler Infrastructure, Aug 18, 2026) |
| [Apple](https://sumble.com/orgs/apple) | 308 | 173 | "Experience with Xcode and CMake are a bonus" (Systems Software Developer, Oct 8, 2026) |
| [Lockheed Martin](https://sumble.com/orgs/lockheed-martin) | 307 | 107 | "Experience with build environments and tools (make and CMake)" (Software Engineer Sr - E3, Oct 24, 2026) |

## Is hiring for CMake growing?

A smaller share of job posts mentioned CMake from June to August 2026 than from March to May: 3.5 in every 10,000 job posts, down from 3.9. August 2026 was its lowest month since October 2025, at 3.1.

| Month | Job posts naming it | All job posts | Per 10,000 job posts |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| Oct 2025 | 474 | 1,413,673 | 3.4 |
| Nov 2025 | 691 | 1,822,119 | 3.8 |
| Dec 2025 | 492 | 1,236,103 | 4.0 |
| Jan 2026 | 663 | 1,828,002 | 3.6 |
| Feb 2026 | 663 | 1,856,647 | 3.6 |
| Mar 2026 | 713 | 1,850,711 | 3.9 |
| Apr 2026 | 664 | 1,728,886 | 3.8 |
| May 2026 | 711 | 1,821,509 | 3.9 |
| Jun 2026 | 716 | 1,909,496 | 3.7 |
| Jul 2026 | 657 | 1,815,180 | 3.6 |
| Aug 2026 | 562 | 1,835,698 | 3.1 |

## How many companies named CMake in a job post for the first time in recent months?

Job posts named CMake for the first time at 240 companies from June to August 2026, against 236 from March to May. The 240 from June to August are 4.9% of all 4,876 companies whose job posts name it.

| Period | Companies naming it in a job post for the first time |
|---|---:|
| March to May 2026 | 236 |
| June to August 2026 | 240 |
| October 2025 to August 2026 | 886 |

Companies whose first job post naming it appeared in that period. Recruiters, staffing firms and job boards are left out.

## How do we know which companies use CMake?

Most of these companies come from employees' profiles: 68% have no job post naming CMake. 4,876 name it in their own job posts.

| How we know | Companies | Share |
|---|---:|---:|
| Job posts name CMake | 4,876 | 32% |
| Employees' profiles list CMake | 10,543 | 68% |

## What size are the companies that use CMake?

Companies with fewer than 50 employees are 1.5 times as common among CMake users as on the typical tech page. 1,428 of its companies have more than 5,000 employees.

| Size | Share | Typical tech page |
|---|---:|---:|
| Under 50 employees | 33% | 22% |
| 50 to 999 | 45% | 38% |
| 1,000 to 5,000 | 13% | 17% |
| Over 5,000 | 9.3% | 23% |

## Where are CMake companies based?

CMake has an unusually large following in Germany: 11% of its companies, against 4.4% on the typical tech page. India is less common than usual, at 4.6% against 6.9% on the typical tech page.

| Country | Companies | Share | Typical tech page |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| United States | 5,020 | 34% | 43% |
| Germany | 1,548 | 11% | 4.4% |
| France | 1,007 | 6.9% | 4.6% |
| United Kingdom | 771 | 5.3% | 6.4% |
| India | 671 | 4.6% | 6.9% |
| Canada | 519 | 3.5% | 3.6% |

## Which teams work with CMake?

R&D teams are the most common home for CMake, at 106 companies, followed by engineering and software. Next are DevOps and software engineering teams, at 55 and 52 companies.

| Team | Companies |
|---|---:|
| R&D | 106 |
| Engineering | 77 |
| Software | 71 |
| DevOps | 55 |
| Software engineering | 52 |
| Software development | 48 |

## Which roles mention CMake most?

Software Engineer roles make up 42% of the job posts that name CMake. The top four roles cover 64% of these job posts.

| Role | Share | Oct 2025 to Aug 2026 | Mar to May 2026 | Jun to Aug 2026 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| Software Engineer | 42% | 2,937 | 771 | 738 |
| Embedded Engineer | 11% | 750 | 233 | 197 |
| Firmware Engineer | 6.1% | 430 | 124 | 130 |
| DevOps Engineer | 5.2% | 367 | 93 | 101 |
| Software Development Engineer in Test | 3% | 212 | 65 | 37 |
| Software Architect | 1.4% | 100 | 24 | 32 |

## Which companies started naming CMake in job posts recently?

246 companies with 50 or more employees picked up CMake in their job posts from April to August 2026. Another 4 were AI-native companies, which we list separately.

| Group | Company | Job posts, April to August 2026 |
|---|---|---:|
| AI native | [Amazon RIVR](https://sumble.com/orgs/swiss-mile) | 2 |
| AI native | [Volinga](https://sumble.com/orgs/volinga) | 2 |
| AI native | [OpenAI](https://sumble.com/orgs/openai) | 1 |
| AI native | [VinRobotics](https://sumble.com/orgs/vinrobotics) | 1 |
| Commercial | [Altamira Technologies Corporation](https://sumble.com/orgs/altamira-technologies) | 15 |
| Commercial | [Ban Vien Corporation](https://sumble.com/orgs/cong-ty-co-phan-ban-vien) | 8 |
| Commercial | [Snke](https://sumble.com/orgs/snke-os) | 8 |
| Commercial | [Vention](https://sumble.com/orgs/vention-group) | 7 |
| Commercial | [EM&E Group](https://sumble.com/orgs/escribano-official) | 5 |
| Mid-market | [AeroVironment](https://sumble.com/orgs/aerovironment) | 8 |
| Mid-market | [FANUC America Corporation](https://sumble.com/orgs/fanuc-america) | 7 |
| Mid-market | [ACV Auctions](https://sumble.com/orgs/acv-auctions) | 6 |
| Mid-market | [Black Duck](https://sumble.com/orgs/black-duck-software) | 5 |
| Mid-market | [Renishaw](https://sumble.com/orgs/renishaw-plc) | 3 |
| Enterprise | [Google](https://sumble.com/orgs/google) | 4 |
| Enterprise | [Publicis Sapient](https://sumble.com/orgs/publicis-sapient) | 4 |
| Enterprise | [GRUPO NS](https://sumble.com/orgs/grupo-ns) | 4 |
| Enterprise | [Celestica](https://sumble.com/orgs/celestica) | 3 |
| Enterprise | [MANTECH](https://sumble.com/orgs/mantech-international) | 3 |

Companies that named CMake in a job post for the first time between April and August 2026, ranked by their job posts in those months. AI-native companies get a group of their own, whatever their size. Recruiters and job boards are left out.

## What else do CMake companies use?

Compared with companies of the same size, CMake companies stand out for using Buildroot and gdb. Bazel is 41 times as common as usual, at 10%.

| Tool | Companies | Also name it | Typical | Times as common |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| Buildroot | 382 | 11% | 0.23% | 48 times |
| gdb | 662 | 19% | 0.42% | 45 times |
| Bazel | 360 | 10% | 0.25% | 41 times |
| Yocto | 846 | 24% | 0.62% | 39 times |
| VxWorks | 275 | 7.9% | 0.21% | 37 times |
| QNX | 351 | 10% | 0.28% | 36 times |
| OpenCL | 297 | 8.5% | 0.24% | 36 times |
| Vulkan | 271 | 7.8% | 0.22% | 36 times |

Shares are out of the 3,487 companies whose job posts name CMake, not counting firms whose job posts name almost every technology.

## Which project themes come up in CMake job posts?

Beyond general digital transformation, the most common project theme in CMake job posts is Microservices Migration (123 posts). Broad digital transformation work shows up in 1,795 of its job posts.

| Project theme | Job posts |
|---|---:|
| Digital Transformation | 1,795 |
| Microservices Migration | 123 |
| Cloud Migration | 122 |
| Data Infrastructure Migration | 89 |

## About this data

Sumble built this page. Sumble gives sales, marketing and other GTM teams technographics and hiring signals for the companies they sell to: the technologies each company uses, which teams are hiring and for what, and who reports to whom. That helps a team know who to contact, why now, and what to say.

Sumble covers more than 3.6 million companies, 93 million job posts collected since 2022 and 194 million employee profiles, and tracks more than 37,000 technologies. It finds which technologies a company uses by reading its job posts and its employees' public profiles.

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A company counts when its own job posts or its employees' public profiles name the technology. Hiring is that technology's share of all job posts collected each month. Quotes are copied word for word from the companies' job posts.

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