# Companies using KiCad

17,665 companies in our data use KiCad, and 3,753 of them name it in job posts they wrote. Hiring for it is growing, with 3,530 job posts naming it from October 2025 to August 2026. It comes up most in Electrical Engineer job posts.

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

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

Collins Aerospace has posted more jobs naming KiCad than any other company: 119. Shield is the newest of the five companies in the table, with its first job post naming it in May 2024.

| Company | Job posts | People | Recent job post |
|---|---:|---:|---|
| [Collins Aerospace](https://sumble.com/orgs/collins-aerospace) | 119 | 48 | "Conducting schematic capture and PCB layout using tools such as EAGLE, KiCAD, or Cadence." (Electrical Engineer II (Onsite), Nov 1, 2026) |
| [Shield](https://sumble.com/orgs/shield-ai) | 79 | 8 | "Experience with electrical design software and tools such as Altium, KiCAD, an oscilloscope, etc." (June 2027 Co-op - Reliability Engineering #5953, Oct 27, 2026) |
| [ALTEN](https://sumble.com/orgs/alten) | 71 | 42 | "Maîtrise des outils de CAO électronique (Altium, KiCad, OrCAD, etc.)." (Electronics specialist – defense sector (m/f), Nov 4, 2026) |
| [Second Order Effects](https://sumble.com/orgs/second-order-effects) | 70 | 3 | "Experience in any common ECAD tool, such as Altium Designer, KiCad, Cadence, PADS, EAGLE, etc." (Electrical Engineer, Oct 28, 2026) |
| [Thales](https://sumble.com/orgs/thales) | 65 | 83 | "Connaissances en programmation LabVIEW Real-Time / FPGAMaîtrise d’un logiciel de conception PCB (Proteus, Altium Designer, KiCad…)" (Internship: Product Engineer (m/f), Nov 4, 2026) |

## Is hiring for KiCad growing?

KiCad turned up in a growing share of job posts: 2.3 in every 10,000 job posts from June to August 2026, compared with 1.8 from March to May. From October to December 2025 it was 1.6.

| Month | Job posts naming it | All job posts | Per 10,000 job posts |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| Oct 2025 | 219 | 1,413,673 | 1.5 |
| Nov 2025 | 284 | 1,822,119 | 1.6 |
| Dec 2025 | 192 | 1,236,103 | 1.6 |
| Jan 2026 | 275 | 1,828,002 | 1.5 |
| Feb 2026 | 309 | 1,856,647 | 1.7 |
| Mar 2026 | 323 | 1,850,711 | 1.7 |
| Apr 2026 | 348 | 1,728,886 | 2.0 |
| May 2026 | 328 | 1,821,509 | 1.8 |
| Jun 2026 | 387 | 1,909,496 | 2.0 |
| Jul 2026 | 431 | 1,815,180 | 2.4 |
| Aug 2026 | 434 | 1,835,698 | 2.4 |

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

Job posts named KiCad for the first time at 380 companies from June to August 2026, against 325 from March to May. That brings the companies naming it for the first time since October 2025 to 1,113, through August 2026.

| Period | Companies naming it in a job post for the first time |
|---|---:|
| March to May 2026 | 325 |
| June to August 2026 | 380 |
| October 2025 to August 2026 | 1,113 |

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 KiCad?

13,912 of the 17,665 companies show up because employees list KiCad on their profiles; 3,753 name it in their own job posts. 1,172 show up in both job posts and employees' profiles.

| How we know | Companies | Share |
|---|---:|---:|
| Job posts name KiCad | 3,753 | 21% |
| Employees' profiles list KiCad | 13,912 | 79% |

## What size are the companies that use KiCad?

Companies with fewer than 50 employees are 1.7 times as common among KiCad users as on the typical tech page. 1,571 of its companies have more than 5,000 employees.

| Size | Share | Typical tech page |
|---|---:|---:|
| Under 50 employees | 37% | 22% |
| 50 to 999 | 40% | 38% |
| 1,000 to 5,000 | 13% | 17% |
| Over 5,000 | 8.9% | 23% |

## Where are KiCad companies based?

Beyond the United States (29%), KiCad is unusually common in Germany, at 7.2% of its companies. Its companies are based in 132 countries and territories.

| Country | Companies | Share | Typical tech page |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| United States | 4,878 | 29% | 43% |
| India | 1,878 | 11% | 6.9% |
| Germany | 1,222 | 7.2% | 4.4% |
| France | 1,133 | 6.7% | 4.6% |
| Canada | 807 | 4.7% | 3.6% |
| United Kingdom | 794 | 4.7% | 6.4% |

## Which teams work with KiCad?

R&D teams are the most common home for KiCad, at 104 companies, followed by engineering and hardware. Electrical engineering and product development teams follow.

| Team | Companies |
|---|---:|
| R&D | 104 |
| Engineering | 88 |
| Hardware | 68 |
| Electrical engineering | 35 |
| Product development | 24 |
| Hardware engineering | 23 |

## Which roles mention KiCad most?

Electrical Engineer and Hardware Engineer roles account for 52% of the job posts that name KiCad. Electrical Engineer posts naming it numbered 301 from March to May 2026 and 373 from June to August.

| Role | Share | Oct 2025 to Aug 2026 | Mar to May 2026 | Jun to Aug 2026 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| Electrical Engineer | 32% | 1,124 | 301 | 373 |
| Hardware Engineer | 20% | 703 | 208 | 222 |
| Embedded Engineer | 6.6% | 233 | 72 | 73 |
| Skilled Trades | 2.9% | 104 | 30 | 24 |
| Software Engineer | 2.5% | 87 | 23 | 21 |
| Software Development Engineer in Test | 1.9% | 68 | 22 | 20 |

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

223 companies with 50 or more employees picked up KiCad in their job posts from April to August 2026. Prolific leads the new commercial companies, with 32 job posts from April to August.

| Group | Company | Job posts, April to August 2026 |
|---|---|---:|
| AI native | [Helsing](https://sumble.com/orgs/helsing) | 2 |
| AI native | [Spore.Bio](https://sumble.com/orgs/spore-bio) | 2 |
| AI native | [Root Access](https://sumble.com/orgs/root-access-ai) | 2 |
| AI native | [OpenAI](https://sumble.com/orgs/openai) | 1 |
| AI native | [Google DeepMind](https://sumble.com/orgs/deepmind) | 1 |
| Commercial | [Prolific](https://sumble.com/orgs/prolific) | 32 |
| Commercial | [Ecole nationale supérieure de l'Electronique et de ses Applications](https://sumble.com/orgs/ensea) | 5 |
| Commercial | [Gallagher, Flynn & Company, LLP](https://sumble.com/orgs/gallagher-flynn-&-company) | 5 |
| Commercial | [Electroswitch](https://sumble.com/orgs/electroswitch) | 5 |
| Commercial | [Stockholm Precision Tools AB (SPT)](https://sumble.com/orgs/stockholm-precision-tools) | 4 |
| Mid-market | [Turing](https://sumble.com/orgs/turing-it) | 9 |
| Mid-market | [Enphase Energy](https://sumble.com/orgs/enphase-energy) | 5 |
| Mid-market | [The Goddard School](https://sumble.com/orgs/goddard) | 3 |
| Mid-market | [Lincoln Electric](https://sumble.com/orgs/lincoln-electric) | 2 |
| Mid-market | [Fluke Corporation](https://sumble.com/orgs/fluke) | 2 |
| Enterprise | [Groupe SII](https://sumble.com/orgs/groupe-sii) | 4 |
| Enterprise | [Roche](https://sumble.com/orgs/roche) | 2 |
| Enterprise | [Alstom](https://sumble.com/orgs/alstom) | 2 |
| Enterprise | [NVIDIA](https://sumble.com/orgs/nvidia) | 2 |
| Enterprise | [Broadcom](https://sumble.com/orgs/broadcom) | 2 |

Companies that named KiCad 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 KiCad companies use?

KiCad companies are 112 times as likely as similar companies to use Eagle: 36% of them, against 0.32%. Among the tools listed here, Altium is the most widely used, at 59% of KiCad companies.

| Tool | Companies | Also name it | Typical | Times as common |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| Eagle | 1,137 | 36% | 0.32% | 112 times |
| ESP32 | 573 | 18% | 0.25% | 73 times |
| Altium | 1,880 | 59% | 0.85% | 70 times |
| STM32 | 878 | 28% | 0.42% | 67 times |
| OrCAD | 703 | 22% | 0.4% | 55 times |
| LTSpice | 566 | 18% | 0.33% | 54 times |
| Onshape | 179 | 5.7% | 0.12% | 47 times |
| UART | 1,356 | 43% | 0.95% | 45 times |

Shares are out of the 3,160 companies whose job posts name KiCad, 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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