# Companies using eRA Commons

319 companies in our data use eRA Commons, and 264 of them name it in job posts they wrote. From October 2025 to August 2026, 188 job posts named it. Researcher roles mention it most.

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

## Which companies name eRA Commons in the most job posts?

Brown University, University of Washington and Columbia University Irving Medical Center mention eRA Commons in the most job posts. Columbia University Irving Medical Center is the newest of the five companies in the table, with its first job post naming it in December 2023.

| Company | Job posts | People | Recent job post |
|---|---:|---:|---|
| [Brown University](https://sumble.com/orgs/brown-university) | 67 | 0 | "Familiarity with eRA Commons, NSF" (Grants and Financial Specialist, Nov 4, 2026) |
| [University of Washington](https://sumble.com/orgs/university-of-washington) | 63 | 2 | "Prior experience with eRA Commons, ASSIST, and Grants.gov." (Grants Manager, Nov 8, 2026) |
| [Columbia University Irving Medical Center](https://sumble.com/orgs/columbiamed) | 37 | 0 | "Prior experience with NIH submissions and systems (era COMMONS, ASSIST, RePORTER)" (Research Administrator I, Jul 7, 2026) |
| [University of Michigan](https://sumble.com/orgs/university-of-michigan) | 31 | 1 | "Administer campus permissions and user roles to a variety of external sponsor systems including eRA Commons." (Sponsored Projects Coordinator, Apr 23, 2025) |
| [Columbia University](https://sumble.com/orgs/columbia-university) | 30 | 2 | "Knowledge of Institutional Financial Systems, eRA Commons, ASSIST, NIH and other Federal Agencies compliances, GAAP" (grants financial manager - general medicine, Oct 16, 2025) |

## Is hiring for eRA Commons growing?

From March to May 2026, 0.08 in every 10,000 job posts named eRA Commons; from June to August, 0.13 in every 10,000 job posts. These are small numbers of job posts, so a few companies can move them.

| Month | Job posts naming it | All job posts | Per 10,000 job posts |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| Oct 2025 | 16 | 1,413,673 | 0.11 |
| Nov 2025 | 18 | 1,822,119 | 0.10 |
| Dec 2025 | 14 | 1,236,103 | 0.11 |
| Jan 2026 | 11 | 1,828,002 | 0.06 |
| Feb 2026 | 14 | 1,856,647 | 0.08 |
| Mar 2026 | 15 | 1,850,711 | 0.08 |
| Apr 2026 | 9 | 1,728,886 | 0.05 |
| May 2026 | 19 | 1,821,509 | 0.10 |
| Jun 2026 | 17 | 1,909,496 | 0.09 |
| Jul 2026 | 14 | 1,815,180 | 0.08 |
| Aug 2026 | 41 | 1,835,698 | 0.22 |

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

14 companies named eRA Commons in a job post for the first time from June to August 2026, against 8 from March to May. Of the 264 companies whose job posts name it, 5.3% first named it from June to August.

| Period | Companies naming it in a job post for the first time |
|---|---:|
| March to May 2026 | 8 |
| June to August 2026 | 14 |
| October 2025 to August 2026 | 40 |

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 eRA Commons?

For eRA Commons, the evidence comes mostly from job posts. 264 companies name it in their own posts. 29 show up in both job posts and employees' profiles.

| How we know | Companies | Share |
|---|---:|---:|
| Job posts name eRA Commons | 264 | 83% |
| Employees' profiles list eRA Commons | 55 | 17% |

## What size are the companies that use eRA Commons?

eRA Commons leans toward large companies. 42% of its users are companies with more than 5,000 employees, against 23% on the typical tech page. The second-largest group is companies with 1,000 to 5,000 employees, at 24%.

| Size | Share | Typical tech page |
|---|---:|---:|
| Under 50 employees | 11% | 22% |
| 50 to 999 | 23% | 38% |
| 1,000 to 5,000 | 24% | 17% |
| Over 5,000 | 42% | 23% |

## Which teams work with eRA Commons?

Job posts most often place eRA Commons with OSP, pre-award and research administration teams.

| Team | Companies |
|---|---:|
| OSP | 11 |
| Pre-award | 9 |
| Research administration | 8 |
| Orsp | 6 |
| Finance | 3 |
| Grants | 3 |

## Which roles mention eRA Commons most?

eRA Commons shows up across many roles. The top one, Researcher, has 18% of the job posts. Researcher posts naming it numbered 10 from March to May 2026 and 14 from June to August.

| Role | Share | Oct 2025 to Aug 2026 | Mar to May 2026 | Jun to Aug 2026 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| Researcher | 18% | 33 | 10 | 14 |
| Compliance | 11% | 20 | 2 | 6 |
| Administrator | 10% | 19 | 3 | 11 |
| Financial Analyst | 6.9% | 13 | 4 | 3 |
| Sales | 5.3% | 10 | 2 | 4 |
| Finance | 4.8% | 9 | 2 | 2 |

## Which companies started naming eRA Commons in job posts recently?

16 companies with 50 or more employees picked up eRA Commons in their job posts from April to August 2026.

| Group | Company | Job posts, April to August 2026 |
|---|---|---:|
| Commercial | [Denton County MHMR Center](https://sumble.com/orgs/denton-county-mhmr-center) | 2 |
| Commercial | [Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University](https://sumble.com/orgs/alabama-a&m-university) | 1 |
| Commercial | [Gillette Children's](https://sumble.com/orgs/gillette-childrens) | 1 |
| Commercial | [Claremont McKenna College](https://sumble.com/orgs/claremont-mckenna-college) | 1 |
| Commercial | [VMG Health](https://sumble.com/orgs/vmg-health) | 1 |
| Mid-market | [University of South Alabama](https://sumble.com/orgs/university-of-south-alabama) | 2 |
| Mid-market | [ASRC Federal](https://sumble.com/orgs/asrc-federal) | 1 |
| Mid-market | [SWCA Environmental Consultants](https://sumble.com/orgs/swca-environmental-consultants) | 1 |
| Mid-market | [Troy University](https://sumble.com/orgs/troy-university) | 1 |
| Enterprise | [Michigan Medicine](https://sumble.com/orgs/michigan-medicine) | 2 |
| Enterprise | [University of Maryland Medical System](https://sumble.com/orgs/university-of-maryland-medical-system) | 2 |
| Enterprise | [Atlantic Health](https://sumble.com/orgs/atlantic-health-system) | 1 |
| Enterprise | [Georgia State University](https://sumble.com/orgs/georgia-state-university) | 1 |
| Enterprise | [Hospital for Special Surgery](https://sumble.com/orgs/hospital-for-special-surgery) | 1 |

Companies that named eRA Commons 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 eRA Commons companies use?

Research.gov and Grants.gov are the tools most closely tied to eRA Commons. NSF Fastlane comes third, 61 times as common as usual, at 8.8%.

| Tool | Companies | Also name it | Typical | Times as common |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| Research.gov | 61 | 36% | 0.36% | 100 times |
| Grants.gov | 104 | 61% | 0.74% | 82 times |
| NSF Fastlane | 15 | 8.8% | 0.14% | 61 times |
| Cayuse | 48 | 28% | 0.58% | 48 times |
| Dedoose | 40 | 23% | 0.72% | 32 times |
| AFNI | 16 | 9.4% | 0.31% | 30 times |
| Paciolan | 17 | 9.9% | 0.36% | 28 times |
| FreeSurfer | 22 | 13% | 0.49% | 26 times |

Shares are out of the 171 companies whose job posts name eRA Commons, not counting firms whose job posts name almost every technology.

## 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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