California
Explore tech, startup, and AI jobs in California. Browse open roles from fast-growing companies hiring right now, filter by role, and see the cities, companies, and events that make California a place to build a career in tech.
Open Positions27,058 jobs in California
Where California’s tech talent studies
Much of the Bay Area talent pipeline runs through Stanford and Berkeley, whose alumni started or ran a large share of the companies below. Southern California adds Caltech, UCLA, and USC, so the state produces engineers on both ends — deep research in the north, design and media closer to Los Angeles.
Stanford University
- Peter Thiel
- Reid Hoffman
- Marissa Mayer
UC Berkeley
- Steve Wozniak
- Eric Schmidt
- Paul Otellini
Caltech
- Gordon Moore
- Frances Arnold
- Charlie Munger
UCLA
- Sara Blakely
- Bill Gross
- Troy Carter
USC
- Marc Benioff
- Neil Blumenthal
- Brian Chesky
UC San Diego
- Susan Wojcicki
- Irwin Jacobs
- Mike Judge
Unicorn startups in California
California is home to more private tech unicorns than any other state, and the roster below reflects it: frontier AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, payments and fintech in Stripe and Chime, and design tools like Figma and Canva.
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What’s happening in California
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Tech jobs in California: common questions
How many tech jobs are open in California right now?
Feeny is tracking roughly 27,058 open tech, startup, and AI roles across California, from 2,470 companies hiring at the moment. It is by far the largest market on the site, and it should be: more AI labs, unicorns, and venture money sit here than anywhere else. The figure updates as boards refresh, so it reflects who is actually hiring this week.
Which California cities have the most tech jobs?
San Francisco leads and it is not close, with the frontier AI labs and a deep bench of startups clustered in the city. The rest of the Bay Area does the heavy lifting around it: Mountain View, Palo Alto, and San Jose carry Big Tech and semiconductors, while Los Angeles brings aerospace and entertainment tech. Feeny indexes roles across 43 California cities in total, and the density thins fast as you move from the Bay south, so a handful of metros hold most of the openings.
What companies are hiring for tech roles in California?
This is the home turf of the AI labs, so OpenAI, Anthropic, and the model-and-tooling companies around them hire constantly, alongside the infrastructure and fintech names like Stripe. Southern California adds a different flavor with SpaceX and the defense-tech and entertainment companies near LA. The result is a state where you can chase frontier research, hyperscale infrastructure, or hard-tech hardware without leaving the market.
What kinds of tech roles are common in California?
California is where the deepest technical roles concentrate. The AI labs want research scientists and ML engineers, the infrastructure companies hire distributed-systems and platform people, and the hardware side around aerospace and chips needs real engineering, not just software. It skews senior and specialized at the top, but the sheer volume of startups means founding-engineer and early product roles are always open for people who want to build from scratch.
What is it like to work in tech in California?
The Bay Area is the most concentrated tech culture on earth, and that cuts both ways. Housing is the most expensive in the country and the pace is relentless, but you are surrounded by the people building the field, and the informal network of former colleagues, investors, and founders is the real product. Southern California trades some of that intensity for space and a broader industry mix. Either way, this is the market where ambition is the baseline, not the exception.
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