--- title: 'Tech & AI jobs in Maryland' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/location/maryland' type: 'location' --- # Tech & AI jobs in 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 roles:** 1057 - **Hiring companies:** 133 - **Region type:** state - **Timezone:** America/New_York - **Population:** 6,180,000 - **Cost of living:** 16% above the US average, driven by the DC and Baltimore suburbs. - **Climate:** Humid subtropical to continental, with hot summers and cold winters. Milder near the Chesapeake Bay. - **Page:** https://feeny.ai/location/maryland ## Cities in Maryland - [Annapolis Junction](https://feeny.ai/location/maryland/annapolis-junction) — 175 jobs - [Bethesda](https://feeny.ai/location/maryland/bethesda) — 135 jobs - [Fort Meade](https://feeny.ai/location/maryland/fort-meade) — 109 jobs - [Rockville](https://feeny.ai/location/maryland/rockville) — 95 jobs - [Baltimore](https://feeny.ai/location/maryland/baltimore) — 88 jobs - [North Bethesda](https://feeny.ai/location/maryland/north-bethesda) — 64 jobs ## Top companies hiring in Maryland - [Captivation Software](https://feeny.ai/companies/captivation-software) — 71 open roles - [Black Canyon Consulting](https://feeny.ai/companies/black-canyon-consulting) — 60 open roles - [Attain Sports](https://feeny.ai/companies/attain-sports) — 21 open roles - [T-Rex Solutions](https://feeny.ai/companies/t-rex-solutions) — 32 open roles - [Axle](https://feeny.ai/companies/axle) — 28 open roles - [Freedom Technology Solutions Group](https://feeny.ai/companies/freedom-technology-solutions-group) — 50 open roles - [The Kenjya-Trusant Group , LLC](https://feeny.ai/companies/the-kenjya-trusant-group-llc) — 14 open roles - [Quantum Space](https://feeny.ai/companies/quantum-space) — 29 open roles - [Xometry](https://feeny.ai/companies/xometry) — 71 open roles - [Capital Bank](https://feeny.ai/companies/capital-bank) — 12 open roles - [Comstock](https://feeny.ai/companies/comstock) — 26 open roles - [Blue Energy](https://feeny.ai/companies/blue-energy) — 9 open roles ## Top Universities **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** (Baltimore, MD · 6,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Michael Bloomberg, Sanju Bansal, Samuel J. Palmisano, Charles Scharf, David Sifry - **University of Maryland, College Park** (College Park, MD · 31,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Sergey Brin, Tim Sweeney, Brendan Iribe, Kevin Plank, Carly Fiorina - **University of Maryland, Baltimore County** (Baltimore, MD · 11,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Tim Finin, Valerie Thomas, Drew Westervelt, Michael F. Summers, Sandra Quince - **Salisbury University** (Salisbury, MD · 7,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Steve Bisciotti, Jim Perdue, Frank Perdue - **Towson University** (Towson, MD · 18,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: John Schuerholz, Mike Flanagan, Amy Schumer - **Morgan State University** (Baltimore, MD · 8,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Earl G. Graves Sr., Kweisi Mfume, Mo'Nique - **Loyola University Maryland** (Baltimore, MD · 4,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Harry Markopolos, Bradley M. Kuhn, Mark Bowden, Ed Burns, Chris Dessi ## Top Unicorns **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. - **[Dragos](https://feeny.ai/companies/dragos)** — $1.7B · OT/ICS cybersecurity for critical infrastructure - **[Huntress](https://feeny.ai/companies/huntress)** — $1.5B · Managed detection & response for SMBs - **Forterra** — $1B · Autonomous ground-vehicle systems for defense ## FAQ **Tech jobs in Maryland: common questions** ### How many tech jobs are open in Maryland right now? Feeny is tracking about 1,057 open tech roles across Maryland from roughly 133 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 6 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. --- _Source: https://feeny.ai/location/maryland_