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title: 'Tech & AI jobs in Louisiana'
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# Tech & AI jobs in Louisiana

> Louisiana's tech scene centers on New Orleans, which built a startup community after Hurricane Katrina reshaped the city, with a state digital-media tax credit drawing software and game studios. Baton Rouge adds an IBM services center and a defense-tech presence. The roles span software, digital media, and energy technology.

- **Open roles:** 198
- **Hiring companies:** 69
- **Region type:** state
- **Timezone:** America/Chicago
- **Population:** 4,570,000
- **Cost of living:** 8% below the US average, one of the more affordable states.
- **Climate:** Humid subtropical, with long hot humid summers, mild winters, and a June-November hurricane season along the Gulf.
- **Page:** https://feeny.ai/location/louisiana

## Cities in Louisiana

- [New Orleans](https://feeny.ai/location/louisiana/new-orleans) — 50 jobs

## Top companies hiring in Louisiana

- [Saronic Technologies](https://feeny.ai/companies/saronic-technologies) — 57 open roles
- Forgen — 8 open roles

## Top Universities

**Where Louisiana's tech talent studies**

Tulane anchors New Orleans with alumni like Yahoo co-founder David Filo and Activision's Bobby Kotick, and LSU in Baton Rouge produced ExxonMobil's Rex Tillerson. Together they feed the state's software and energy-tech employers.

- **Tulane University** (New Orleans, LA · 9,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: David Filo, Bobby Kotick, Jonathan Reckford, Amy Chua
- **Louisiana State University** (Baton Rouge, LA · 30,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Rex Tillerson, Andrew Higgins, James Carville, Steve Scalise, Hubie Brown
- **Louisiana Tech University** (Ruston, LA · 9,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: James R. Doty, Karl Malone, Terry Bradshaw
- **University of Louisiana at Lafayette** (Lafayette, LA · 14,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Kathleen Blanco, Ray Authement, Jim Olivier
- **Loyola University New Orleans** (New Orleans, LA · 3,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Harry Connick Jr., Marc Morial, Moon Landrieu

## Top Unicorns

**Unicorn startups in Louisiana**

Louisiana's clearest unicorn is Lucid, a New Orleans market-research and survey-sampling company that reached the mark before a majority acquisition. The state's startup scene is young and incentive-driven, so the homegrown unicorn count remains small.

- **Lucid** — $1.1B · Programmatic market-research & survey-sampling marketplace

## FAQ

**Tech jobs in Louisiana: common questions**

### How many tech jobs are open in Louisiana right now?

Feeny is tracking about 198 open tech roles in Louisiana, from roughly 69 companies hiring across the state. Each is drawn from a company's own careers page, so a listing means a role that's live, not a stale repost. New Orleans is the center of the state's tech work. Use the filters to narrow by role or seniority.

### Which Louisiana cities have the most tech jobs?

New Orleans is the state's tech hub, and it's the one city we index here. It built a startup community in the years after Hurricane Katrina, helped along by a state digital-media tax credit that pulled software and game studios in. Baton Rouge contributes some employers too. Within the 1 cities we cover, New Orleans is where the openings sit.

### What companies are hiring for tech roles in Louisiana?

New Orleans anchors the hiring, with software and game studios drawn in by the state's digital-media tax credit over the past decade. Baton Rouge adds an IBM services center and a defense-tech presence, which broadens the mix beyond the New Orleans scene. Together they cover a wider range of work than the state's size might suggest. Feeny lists roles from about 69 companies here, so the current set is worth a direct look.

### What kinds of tech roles are common in Louisiana?

Software is the core, with a distinctive digital-media and game-development slice thanks to the tax credit that drew those studios to New Orleans. Baton Rouge's IBM services center brings more conventional enterprise IT roles, and its defense-tech presence adds another lane. Energy technology shows up too, which fits a state built around the industry. It's a smaller market, but a more varied one than you'd guess.

### What is it like to work in tech in Louisiana?

The New Orleans tech scene grew out of the rebuilding after Katrina, which gives it a scrappier, more community-driven feel than a corporate hub. Cost of living runs about 8 percent below the national average, so a software salary goes comfortably far, especially against the culture and food the city is known for. The market is small, so the trade is fewer employers and a shorter bench of openings. For someone who wants that specific place and lifestyle, the tax-credit-fed studio scene is a genuine draw.

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_Source: https://feeny.ai/location/louisiana_