# Companies using PowerPC

2,643 companies use PowerPC, based on their job posts and their employees' public profiles. Its share of job posts held steady in the three months to August 2026; 653 job posts named it from October 2025 to August 2026. Embedded Engineer is the role that names it most often.

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

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

Northrop Grumman, Collins Aerospace and Lockheed Martin are among the companies with the most job posts naming PowerPC. Aptiv is the newest of the five companies in the table, with its first job post naming it in June 2023.

| Company | Job posts | People | Recent job post |
|---|---:|---:|---|
| [Northrop Grumman](https://sumble.com/orgs/northrop-grumman) | 146 | 41 | "Familiarity with PowerPC architectures and peripherals" (Engineer Embedded Software, Nov 2, 2026) |
| [Collins Aerospace](https://sumble.com/orgs/collins-aerospace) | 132 | 32 | "Embedded processing resources (PowerPC, Intel, and ARM)" (Electrical Engineer II, Computing Products (Onsite), Nov 2, 2026) |
| [Lockheed Martin](https://sumble.com/orgs/lockheed-martin) | 113 | 28 | "Experiencing authoring Board Support Packages (BSPs), bare-metal/low-level device drivers, and bootloaders (e.g., U-Boot) targeting modern multicore architectures (ARM, Intel x86/x64, PowerPC)." (Software Engineer Staff - E4, Oct 23, 2026) |
| [Aptiv](https://sumble.com/orgs/aptiv-1) | 108 | 7 | "Experience in at least one of microcontroller architectures: Renesas RH family, Tricore or PowerPC architecture" (Embedded Software Engineer, Oct 15, 2026) |
| [Two Six Technologies](https://sumble.com/orgs/two-six-technologies) | 91 | 0 | "Applied domain expertise in one or more core areas: firmware analysis (ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, RTOS), firmware rehosting/emulation (QEMU), fuzzing and exploit development, binary…" (Lead Vulnerability Researcher, Oct 9, 2026) |

## Is hiring for PowerPC growing?

PowerPC's share of job posts is about the same as three months earlier: 0.35 in every 10,000 job posts from June to August 2026, against 0.36 from March to May. Its busiest month was October 2025, at 0.45.

| Month | Job posts naming it | All job posts | Per 10,000 job posts |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| Oct 2025 | 63 | 1,413,673 | 0.45 |
| Nov 2025 | 63 | 1,822,119 | 0.35 |
| Dec 2025 | 23 | 1,236,103 | 0.19 |
| Jan 2026 | 56 | 1,828,002 | 0.31 |
| Feb 2026 | 56 | 1,856,647 | 0.30 |
| Mar 2026 | 69 | 1,850,711 | 0.37 |
| Apr 2026 | 67 | 1,728,886 | 0.39 |
| May 2026 | 60 | 1,821,509 | 0.33 |
| Jun 2026 | 76 | 1,909,496 | 0.40 |
| Jul 2026 | 61 | 1,815,180 | 0.34 |
| Aug 2026 | 59 | 1,835,698 | 0.32 |

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

13 companies named PowerPC in a job post for the first time from June to August 2026, against 19 from March to May. Over the 11 months from October 2025, 53 companies posted their first job naming it.

| Period | Companies naming it in a job post for the first time |
|---|---:|
| March to May 2026 | 19 |
| June to August 2026 | 13 |
| October 2025 to August 2026 | 53 |

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 PowerPC?

We found 2,643 companies that use PowerPC, 2,160 of them through employees' profiles alone. 483 name it in their own job posts.

| How we know | Companies | Share |
|---|---:|---:|
| Job posts name PowerPC | 483 | 18% |
| Employees' profiles list PowerPC | 2,160 | 82% |

## What size are the companies that use PowerPC?

No size of company stands out for PowerPC. Companies with 50 to 999 employees make up the largest group, at 40%. The second-largest group is companies with fewer than 50 employees, at 22%.

| Size | Share | Typical tech page |
|---|---:|---:|
| Under 50 employees | 22% | 22% |
| 50 to 999 | 40% | 38% |
| 1,000 to 5,000 | 18% | 17% |
| Over 5,000 | 19% | 23% |

## Where are PowerPC companies based?

PowerPC companies are spread across 68 countries and territories. The United States leads with 49%, then Germany with 5.3%. India is less common than usual, at 4.2% against 6.9% on the typical tech page.

| Country | Companies | Share | Typical tech page |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| United States | 1,227 | 49% | 43% |
| Germany | 134 | 5.3% | 4.4% |
| France | 134 | 5.3% | 4.6% |
| United Kingdom | 133 | 5.3% | 6.4% |
| India | 106 | 4.2% | 6.9% |
| Canada | 93 | 3.7% | 3.6% |

## Which teams work with PowerPC?

Engineering and software engineering teams are tied as the most common home for PowerPC, at 9 companies each. R&D teams are third, at 7 companies.

| Team | Companies |
|---|---:|
| Engineering | 9 |
| Software engineering | 9 |
| R&D | 7 |
| Software development | 5 |
| Firmware | 4 |
| Product engineering | 4 |

## Which roles mention PowerPC most?

No single role dominates for PowerPC; Embedded Engineer leads with 24% of the job posts. The top four roles cover 61% of these job posts.

| Role | Share | Oct 2025 to Aug 2026 | Mar to May 2026 | Jun to Aug 2026 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| Embedded Engineer | 24% | 155 | 36 | 47 |
| Software Engineer | 21% | 134 | 28 | 39 |
| Hardware Engineer | 8.3% | 54 | 19 | 19 |
| Firmware Engineer | 8.1% | 53 | 19 | 19 |
| Electrical Engineer | 2.8% | 18 | 7 | 4 |
| Product Security | 2.8% | 18 | 8 | 6 |

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

18 companies with 50 or more employees picked up PowerPC in their job posts from April to August 2026. Among the new commercial companies, New Eagle posted the most jobs naming it: 5.

| Group | Company | Job posts, April to August 2026 |
|---|---|---:|
| Commercial | [New Eagle](https://sumble.com/orgs/new-eagle) | 5 |
| Commercial | [Castelion](https://sumble.com/orgs/castelion) | 2 |
| Commercial | [KAIZEN Solutions (KZS)](https://sumble.com/orgs/kzs) | 2 |
| Commercial | [Iridium](https://sumble.com/orgs/iridium) | 1 |
| Commercial | [TDK InvenSense](https://sumble.com/orgs/inven-sense-com) | 1 |
| Mid-market | [Cirrus](https://sumble.com/orgs/cirrus-aircraft) | 3 |
| Mid-market | [Williams International](https://sumble.com/orgs/williams-international-2) | 3 |
| Mid-market | [TTM Technologies](https://sumble.com/orgs/ttm-technologies) | 1 |
| Mid-market | [National Laboratory of the Rockies](https://sumble.com/orgs/national-renewable-energy-laboratory) | 1 |
| Enterprise | [Larsen & Toubro](https://sumble.com/orgs/larsen-and-toubro-l&t) | 2 |
| Enterprise | [STMicroelectronics](https://sumble.com/orgs/stmicroelectronics) | 2 |
| Enterprise | [Embraer](https://sumble.com/orgs/embraer) | 2 |
| Enterprise | [Cisco](https://sumble.com/orgs/cisco-systems) | 1 |
| Enterprise | [Nokia](https://sumble.com/orgs/nokia) | 1 |

Companies that named PowerPC 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 PowerPC companies use?

Compared with companies of the same size, PowerPC companies stand out for using Binary Ninja and Microsemi. OllyDbg is 203 times as common as usual, at 9.1%.

| Tool | Companies | Also name it | Typical | Times as common |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| Binary Ninja | 22 | 9.1% | 0.04% | 236 times |
| Microsemi | 15 | 6.2% | 0.03% | 205 times |
| OllyDbg | 22 | 9.1% | 0.04% | 203 times |
| VxWorks | 105 | 44% | 0.23% | 190 times |
| Microblaze | 15 | 6.2% | 0.03% | 186 times |
| MIPS | 53 | 22% | 0.14% | 160 times |
| SpaceWire | 19 | 7.9% | 0.05% | 157 times |
| PCI Express | 19 | 7.9% | 0.06% | 139 times |

Shares are out of the 241 companies whose job posts name PowerPC, 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.

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