# Companies using Vulkan

2,396 companies use Vulkan, based on their job posts and their employees' public profiles. Its share of job posts is shrinking, though 2,218 job posts still named it from October 2025 to August 2026. Software Engineer is the role that names it most often.

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

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

Qualcomm, NVIDIA and Apple are among the companies with the most job posts naming Vulkan. Of the five companies in the table, AMD has the most employees who list it on their profiles: 86.

| Company | Job posts | People | Recent job post |
|---|---:|---:|---|
| [Qualcomm](https://sumble.com/orgs/qualcomm) | 711 | 72 | "Experience with Vulkan, OpenGL, DX12, or CUDA" (System Performance Engineer, Senior, Nov 7, 2026) |
| [NVIDIA](https://sumble.com/orgs/nvidia) | 603 | 66 | "Drive execution and production delivery of Vulkan, OpenGL, and CUDA-based graphics software, from GPU and SoC enablement through integration, optimization…" (Senior Director, Graphics Systems Software, Nov 7, 2026) |
| [Apple](https://sumble.com/orgs/apple) | 536 | 32 | "Experience building or extending ML runtimes, inference engines, or accelerator driver stacks (e.g., TensorRT, ONNX Runtime, XLA, Metal, Vulkan compute, or similar)" (Machine Learning System Software Engineer (m/f/d), Oct 22, 2026) |
| [AMD](https://sumble.com/orgs/amd) | 446 | 86 | "Familiarity with graphics and compute APIs such as Direct3D, Vulkan, CUDA, or OpenCL." (Senior Graphics Machine Learning Engineer, Oct 23, 2026) |
| [Luxoft](https://sumble.com/orgs/luxoft) | 413 | 4 | "3D graphics and geometry processing (OpenGL, Vulkan, VTK, CGAL or similar)" (hands-on development manager (c++), Nov 4, 2026) |

## Is hiring for Vulkan growing?

Job posts mentioning Vulkan went from 1.2 to 0.95 in every 10,000 job posts, comparing March to May with June to August 2026. June 2026 was its lowest month since October 2025, at 0.84.

| Month | Job posts naming it | All job posts | Per 10,000 job posts |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| Oct 2025 | 164 | 1,413,673 | 1.2 |
| Nov 2025 | 254 | 1,822,119 | 1.4 |
| Dec 2025 | 120 | 1,236,103 | 0.97 |
| Jan 2026 | 252 | 1,828,002 | 1.4 |
| Feb 2026 | 271 | 1,856,647 | 1.5 |
| Mar 2026 | 225 | 1,850,711 | 1.2 |
| Apr 2026 | 221 | 1,728,886 | 1.3 |
| May 2026 | 181 | 1,821,509 | 0.99 |
| Jun 2026 | 160 | 1,909,496 | 0.84 |
| Jul 2026 | 186 | 1,815,180 | 1.0 |
| Aug 2026 | 184 | 1,835,698 | 1.0 |

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

From June to August 2026, 58 companies posted their first job naming Vulkan; 59 did from March to May. The 58 from June to August are 4.2% of all 1,369 companies whose job posts name it.

| Period | Companies naming it in a job post for the first time |
|---|---:|
| March to May 2026 | 59 |
| June to August 2026 | 58 |
| October 2025 to August 2026 | 215 |

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 Vulkan?

The evidence for Vulkan is close to even: 57% of these companies name it in job posts, and 43% come from employees' profiles. 284 show up in both job posts and employees' profiles.

| How we know | Companies | Share |
|---|---:|---:|
| Job posts name Vulkan | 1,369 | 57% |
| Employees' profiles list Vulkan | 1,027 | 43% |

## What size are the companies that use Vulkan?

Companies with fewer than 50 employees are 1.3 times as common among Vulkan users as on the typical tech page. 365 of its companies have more than 5,000 employees.

| Size | Share | Typical tech page |
|---|---:|---:|
| Under 50 employees | 29% | 22% |
| 50 to 999 | 43% | 38% |
| 1,000 to 5,000 | 13% | 17% |
| Over 5,000 | 15% | 23% |

## Where are Vulkan companies based?

The United States has the most Vulkan companies (37%), but Germany stands out: 6.8% of them, against 4.4% on the typical tech page. The United Kingdom is second, at 7.1%.

| Country | Companies | Share | Typical tech page |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| United States | 824 | 37% | 43% |
| United Kingdom | 159 | 7.1% | 6.4% |
| Germany | 152 | 6.8% | 4.4% |
| France | 125 | 5.6% | 4.6% |
| India | 115 | 5.1% | 6.9% |
| Canada | 93 | 4.1% | 3.6% |

## Which teams work with Vulkan?

Vulkan turns up most in job posts for graphics, engineering and rendering teams. R&D teams come fourth, at 17 companies.

| Team | Companies |
|---|---:|
| Graphics | 39 |
| Engineering | 20 |
| Rendering | 18 |
| R&D | 17 |
| Software | 15 |
| Core technology | 13 |

## Which roles mention Vulkan most?

Software Engineer and Hardware Engineer roles account for 43% of the job posts that name Vulkan. The top four roles cover 53% of these job posts.

| Role | Share | Oct 2025 to Aug 2026 | Mar to May 2026 | Jun to Aug 2026 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| Software Engineer | 37% | 810 | 211 | 188 |
| Hardware Engineer | 6.5% | 144 | 31 | 30 |
| CGI Designer | 6.4% | 143 | 38 | 36 |
| AI Engineer | 3.4% | 75 | 13 | 16 |
| 3D Designer | 3.1% | 69 | 19 | 15 |
| Software Development Engineer in Test | 2.6% | 57 | 19 | 23 |

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

From April to August 2026, 51 companies with 50 or more employees posted their first job naming Vulkan: 35 commercial, 10 mid-market and 6 enterprise. Another 5 were AI-native companies, which we list separately.

| Group | Company | Job posts, April to August 2026 |
|---|---|---:|
| AI native | [Volinga](https://sumble.com/orgs/volinga) | 2 |
| AI native | [OpenAI](https://sumble.com/orgs/openai) | 1 |
| AI native | [Bot Auto](https://sumble.com/orgs/bot-auto) | 1 |
| AI native | [Kotoba](https://sumble.com/orgs/kotoba-tech) | 1 |
| AI native | [mundane](https://sumble.com/orgs/mundanebot) | 1 |
| Commercial | [Agile Robots SE](https://sumble.com/orgs/agile-robots) | 3 |
| Commercial | [Thinkproject](https://sumble.com/orgs/thinkproject) | 3 |
| Commercial | [LeadSoC Technologies Pvt Ltd](https://sumble.com/orgs/leadsoc-technologies-india) | 3 |
| Commercial | [Telestream](https://sumble.com/orgs/telestream) | 3 |
| Commercial | [Elevate](https://sumble.com/orgs/one-elevate) | 2 |
| Mid-market | [Bosch Romania](https://sumble.com/orgs/boschromania) | 8 |
| Mid-market | [Symbotic](https://sumble.com/orgs/symbotic-2) | 4 |
| Mid-market | [RWTH Aachen University](https://sumble.com/orgs/rwth-aachen) | 2 |
| Mid-market | [Allen Institute](https://sumble.com/orgs/allen-institute) | 2 |
| Mid-market | [HENSOLDT](https://sumble.com/orgs/hensoldt) | 1 |
| Enterprise | [Accenture in India](https://sumble.com/orgs/accentureindia) | 4 |
| Enterprise | [Expleo Group](https://sumble.com/orgs/expleo-group) | 2 |
| Enterprise | [Mphasis](https://sumble.com/orgs/mphasis) | 1 |
| Enterprise | [Saab](https://sumble.com/orgs/saab) | 1 |
| Enterprise | [Smith+Nephew](https://sumble.com/orgs/smith-&-nephew) | 1 |

Companies that named Vulkan 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 Vulkan companies use?

Compared with companies of the same size, Vulkan companies stand out for using DirectX and OpenGL ES. OpenGL comes third, 147 times as common as usual, at 71%.

| Tool | Companies | Also name it | Typical | Times as common |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| DirectX | 448 | 46% | 0.18% | 257 times |
| OpenGL ES | 109 | 11% | 0.05% | 213 times |
| OpenGL | 689 | 71% | 0.49% | 147 times |
| MaxScript | 58 | 6% | 0.05% | 126 times |
| OpenCL | 195 | 20% | 0.24% | 84 times |
| Perforce | 234 | 24% | 0.41% | 59 times |
| MIPI | 67 | 6.9% | 0.15% | 45 times |
| H.265 | 51 | 5.3% | 0.13% | 41 times |

Shares are out of the 967 companies whose job posts name Vulkan, not counting firms whose job posts name almost every technology.

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

Beyond general digital transformation, the most common project theme in Vulkan job posts is Generative AI (32 posts). Frontend Migration is next, in 6 job posts.

| Project theme | Job posts |
|---|---:|
| Digital Transformation | 223 |
| Generative AI | 32 |
| Frontend Migration | 6 |

- "Profile and optimize local inference (llama.cpp-vulkan and vLLM) for latency, throughput, and memory on edge hardware" (Intel, Sr. Inference Optimization Engineer (local / edge runtime), Jul 27, 2026)
- "Help Android migrate the ecosystem from older GPU APIs (GLES) to newer ones (Vulkan, WebGPU)" (Google, Engineering Manager, Android Machine Learning and Graphics, Jan 3, 2024)

## About this data

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