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

> Massachusetts runs on research turned into companies. Boston and Cambridge anchor it, with Whoop, Klaviyo, and Formlabs hiring alongside a deep bench of security and data startups like Snyk, Circle, and DataRobot. The pull here is the lab-to-startup pipeline: MIT and Harvard sit a subway stop apart, and the roles skew toward hard engineering, biotech tooling, and enterprise software.

- **Open roles:** 3101
- **Hiring companies:** 416
- **Region type:** state
- **Timezone:** America/New_York
- **Population:** 7,020,000
- **Cost of living:** 28% above the US average — driven by Greater Boston housing.
- **Climate:** Humid continental — warm summers and cold, snowy winters. Coastal weather near Boston, colder inland toward the Berkshires.
- **Page:** https://feeny.ai/location/massachusetts

## Cities in Massachusetts

- [Boston](https://feeny.ai/location/massachusetts/boston) — 1832 jobs
- [Cambridge](https://feeny.ai/location/massachusetts/cambridge) — 448 jobs
- [Waltham](https://feeny.ai/location/massachusetts/waltham) — 235 jobs
- [Somerville](https://feeny.ai/location/massachusetts/somerville) — 204 jobs
- [Woburn](https://feeny.ai/location/massachusetts/woburn) — 124 jobs
- [Lexington](https://feeny.ai/location/massachusetts/lexington) — 76 jobs
- [Needham](https://feeny.ai/location/massachusetts/needham) — 75 jobs
- [Framingham](https://feeny.ai/location/massachusetts/framingham) — 58 jobs
- [Burlington](https://feeny.ai/location/massachusetts/burlington) — 55 jobs
- [Quincy](https://feeny.ai/location/massachusetts/quincy) — 55 jobs

## Top companies hiring in Massachusetts

- [Whoop](https://feeny.ai/companies/whoop) — 147 open roles
- [Lila Sciences](https://feeny.ai/companies/lila-sciences) — 107 open roles
- [Flagship Pioneering, Inc.](https://feeny.ai/companies/flagship-pioneering-inc) — 90 open roles
- [Formlabs](https://feeny.ai/companies/formlabs) — 104 open roles
- [QuEra Computing, Inc.](https://feeny.ai/companies/quera-computing-inc) — 54 open roles
- [Reframe Systems](https://feeny.ai/companies/reframe-systems) — 25 open roles
- [Replimune](https://feeny.ai/companies/replimune) — 32 open roles
- [Klaviyo](https://feeny.ai/companies/klaviyo) — 81 open roles
- [ezCater, Inc](https://feeny.ai/companies/ezcater-inc) — 24 open roles
- [Home Market Foods](https://feeny.ai/companies/home-market-foods) — 21 open roles
- [Kailera Therapeutics, Inc.](https://feeny.ai/companies/kailera-therapeutics-inc) — 21 open roles
- [STR](https://feeny.ai/companies/str) — 65 open roles

## Top Universities

**Where Massachusetts's tech talent studies**

The talent pipeline runs through Cambridge, where MIT and Harvard sit blocks apart and have seeded companies from Dropbox to iRobot to Microsoft. Northeastern feeds the city through its co-op program, WPI turns out hardware engineers, and Babson quietly produces more founders per capita than almost anywhere.

- **Massachusetts Institute of Technology** (Cambridge, MA · 4,500 undergrads) — notable alumni: Drew Houston, Arash Ferdowsi, Colin Angle, Helen Greiner, Dan Bricklin
- **Harvard University** (Cambridge, MA · 7,600 undergrads) — notable alumni: Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Sheryl Sandberg, Paul Graham, Michael Bloomberg
- **Northeastern University** (Boston, MA · 17,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Nikesh Arora, Shawn Fanning, Biz Stone, Marc Raibert, Bob Davis
- **Boston University** (Boston, MA · 18,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Karen Lynch, David Zaslav, Reshma Kewalramani, Allen Questrom, Nancy Dubuc
- **Worcester Polytechnic Institute** (Worcester, MA · 5,400 undergrads) — notable alumni: Dean Kamen, Paul Allaire, Jeremy Hitchcock, Naveen Selvadurai, Robert Stempel
- **Babson College** (Wellesley, MA · 2,700 undergrads) — notable alumni: Arthur Blank, Akio Toyoda, Roger Enrico, Gustavo Cisneros, C. Dean Metropoulos
- **Bentley University** (Waltham, MA · 4,500 undergrads) — notable alumni: Marcelo Claure, Lisa Lutoff-Perlo, Arthur T. Demoulas, William C. Freda, Fahim Saleh
- **Tufts University** (Medford, MA · 7,100 undergrads) — notable alumni: Pierre Omidyar, Jamie Dimon, Ellen Kullman, Meg Hourihan, Scott Sanborn

## Top Unicorns

**Unicorn startups in Massachusetts**

The unicorn roster leans technical: security at Snyk and Cybereason, data infrastructure at DataRobot and Starburst, and frontier bets like Commonwealth Fusion Systems and QuEra out of the MIT orbit. Circle and Whoop round out a scene built more on deep tech than consumer apps.

- **Circle** — $9B · USDC stablecoin & crypto payments infrastructure
- **Snyk** — $7.4B · Developer-first security for code & open-source dependencies
- **DataRobot** — $6.3B · Enterprise AI & machine-learning automation platform
- **Commonwealth Fusion Systems** — $5B · Commercial fusion energy via high-field tokamaks
- **[Whoop](https://feeny.ai/companies/whoop)** — $3.6B · Wearable fitness, strain & recovery tracking
- **[Starburst](https://feeny.ai/companies/starburst)** — $3.35B · Distributed analytics query engine (Trino) for the data lake
- **Cybereason** — $3.3B · Endpoint detection & response cybersecurity
- **Devo** — $2B · Cloud-native security analytics & SIEM platform
- **[Formlabs](https://feeny.ai/companies/formlabs)** — $2B · Professional desktop 3D printers & materials
- **[QuEra Computing](https://feeny.ai/companies/quera-computing-inc)** — $1.5B · Neutral-atom quantum computing
- **Chief** — $1.1B · Private executive network for senior women leaders
- **[Flagship Pioneering](https://feeny.ai/companies/flagship-pioneering-inc)** — $1B · Biotech venture-creation firm

## Events

**What's happening in Massachusetts**

- [10 AM Run Club + 11 AM Power Yoga Presented By Brittany Belezos of BRB Health Club](https://luma.com/r25i0mlg) — 2026-08-08 · Boston
- [Po-Shen Loh | Raise A Thought Full Generation in the Age of AI | Brookline, MA](https://luma.com/zteamms8) — 2026-08-08 · Boston
- [Cofounder Matching: Meet Your Future Founding Team](https://luma.com/wyrga6dd) — 2026-08-10 · Boston
- [Boston Happy Hour](https://luma.com/dc8qbwzc) — 2026-08-10 · Boston
- [Pearce Fellows Showcase](https://luma.com/unders-m16k) — 2026-08-12 · Boston
- [AI+X Meetup @ MIT Museum](https://luma.com/q6gw5r77) — 2026-08-12 · Boston
- [Boston Bio Startup Office Hours](https://luma.com/tzgme7nx) — 2026-08-13 · Boston
- [RevGenius IRL: Boston Happy Hour](https://luma.com/revgenius-irl-boston-august-14) — 2026-08-14 · Boston
- [ALO BOSTON SEAPORT: ALO RUNNERS CLUB](https://luma.com/y0tt3pm2) — 2026-08-15 · Boston

## FAQ

**Tech jobs in Massachusetts: common questions**

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

There are about 3,101 open tech roles in Massachusetts on Feeny, drawn from roughly 416 companies. We pull these from the employers' own career pages and refresh them, so what you see is what is actually open, not a stale repost. Greater Boston does most of the heavy lifting on that number.

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

Boston and Cambridge anchor it, with the two sitting a subway stop apart and sharing the same talent pool. Waltham, Somerville, Needham, and Lexington ring out from there and carry a lot of the enterprise and hardware work. Woburn rounds out the cluster to the north. The openings span 10 Massachusetts cities, but the center of gravity barely leaves the T map.

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

The homegrown names carry a lot of the hiring: Whoop, Klaviyo, and Formlabs all grew up here. On the infrastructure and data side you get Snyk, Circle, and DataRobot, the kind of security and ML companies that came straight out of the local research pipeline. That pipeline is the real story, with MIT and Harvard close enough that a lab project becomes a startup and then an employer within a few years.

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

Roles skew hard engineering, the kind that wants a real computer-science or systems background rather than growth-hacking. Biotech tooling is a category of its own here, a byproduct of all the life-science research in Cambridge. Enterprise and infrastructure software fill out most of the rest. If your strength is deep technical work, this is one of the densest markets for it.

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

The talent density is unusual, and so is the price of living inside it. Cost of living runs about 28% above the national average, almost entirely because of Greater Boston housing, and that is the honest catch: salaries are strong, but rent and home prices eat a large chunk of the premium. What you get for it is proximity to the research that starts these companies, and colleagues who came out of the same labs. If you want to be near the front of hard technical work and can stomach the rent, it delivers.

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