Maryland
Maryland's tech economy sits between two poles: the cybersecurity and defense cluster around Fort Meade and the NSA, and the biotech and research corridor anchored by Johns Hopkins. Companies like Dragos, Huntress, and Accenture Federal hire cleared engineers, and the DC suburbs pull in government and enterprise work. It's a security-and-research economy more than a consumer-startup one.
Open Positions1,822 jobs in Maryland
Where Maryland’s tech talent studies
Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland anchor the talent supply. Hopkins produced Michael Bloomberg and MicroStrategy's Sanju Bansal; UMD College Park sent Sergey Brin, Epic's Tim Sweeney, and Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe into the industry. UMBC quietly runs one of the country's best STEM pipelines.
Johns Hopkins University
- Michael BloombergFounder of Bloomberg L.P.
- Sanju BansalCo-Founder of MicroStrategy
- Samuel J. PalmisanoFormer Chairman and CEO of IBM
- Charles ScharfCEO of Wells Fargo, former CEO of Visa
- David SifryFounder of Technorati
University of Maryland, College Park
- Sergey BrinCo-Founder of Google
- Tim SweeneyFounder and CEO of Epic Games
- Brendan IribeCo-Founder and CEO of Oculus VR
- Kevin PlankFounder and Executive Chair of Under Armour
- Carly FiorinaFormer CEO of Hewlett-Packard
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- Tim FininComputer scientist, Semantic Web pioneer
- Valerie ThomasNASA scientist, inventor of the illusion transmitter
- Drew WesterveltFounder of Hex Performance
- Michael F. SummersHHMI investigator, architect of UMBC's STEM pipeline
- Sandra QuinceCEO of Paradigm for Parity
Salisbury University
- Steve BisciottiFounder of Allegis Group, owner of the Baltimore Ravens
- Jim PerdueChairman of Perdue Farms
- Frank PerdueFormer president of Perdue Farms
Towson University
- John SchuerholzHall-of-Fame president of the Atlanta Braves
- Mike FlanaganFilm and TV writer-director
- Amy SchumerComedian, actress and producer
Morgan State University
- Earl G. Graves Sr.Founder of Black Enterprise magazine
- Kweisi MfumeFormer President and CEO of the NAACP
- Mo'NiqueAcademy Award-winning actress
Loyola University Maryland
- Harry MarkopolosAnalyst who exposed the Madoff Ponzi scheme
- Bradley M. KuhnFormer Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation
- Mark BowdenBestselling author (Black Hawk Down)
- Ed BurnsCo-creator of HBO's The Wire
- Chris DessiDigital-marketing entrepreneur
Unicorn startups in Maryland
Maryland's unicorn bench is small but sharply focused on security: OT/ICS defense at Dragos, managed detection at Huntress, and autonomous defense systems at Forterra. It reflects the state's proximity to the intelligence community more than any consumer market.
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Tech jobs in Maryland: common questions
How many tech jobs are open in Maryland right now?
Feeny is tracking about 1,822 open tech roles across Maryland from roughly 199 companies. These come straight from company career pages, so a listing that closes drops off instead of lingering for months the way it does on the big aggregators. One caveat specific to this state: a real slice of these roles want a security clearance, and that gate is often listed right in the requirements.
Which Maryland cities have the most tech jobs?
The jobs concentrate in two bands. Around Fort Meade and Annapolis Junction sits the cybersecurity and defense cluster tied to the NSA, while Bethesda, North Bethesda, and Rockville pull the enterprise and biotech work that spills out of the DC suburbs. Baltimore adds a research-and-health layer of its own. In total the openings spread across 10 Maryland cities on Feeny.
What companies are hiring for tech roles in Maryland?
The security side is where the recognizable names sit: Dragos, Huntress, and Accenture Federal all hire cleared engineers here. The DC-adjacent suburbs bring in government contractors and enterprise employers, and Baltimore's research economy, anchored by Johns Hopkins, feeds the biotech and lab-tooling roles. It reads less like a consumer-startup town and more like a security-and-research economy that happens to need a lot of software.
What kinds of tech roles are common in Maryland?
Expect cybersecurity and defense engineering to dominate, much of it near Fort Meade and much of it clearance-gated. The other pole is biotech and research tooling out of the Hopkins corridor, plus the enterprise and government software the DC suburbs run on. If you want to build a consumer app, this is not your first stop. If you want to secure networks or work on research infrastructure, it is one of the deepest markets in the country.
What is it like to work in tech in Maryland?
Cost of living runs about 16% above the national average, driven by the DC and Baltimore suburbs where most of the good jobs are. The work is stable and often well-paid, since defense and government budgets don't swing the way startup funding does. The honest trade is the clearance: a lot of the best-paying roles need one, which means a background investigation and a slower path in, but it also walls off your job from the layoff cycles that hit consumer tech. For engineers who want steady, serious work, that trade is often worth it.
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