
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 Positions3,101 jobs in Massachusetts
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
- Drew HoustonCo-Founder and CEO of Dropbox
- Arash FerdowsiCo-Founder and former CTO of Dropbox
- Colin AngleCo-Founder and former CEO of iRobot
- Helen GreinerCo-Founder of iRobot
- Dan BricklinCo-inventor of VisiCalc
Harvard University
- Bill GatesCo-Founder of Microsoft
- Steve BallmerFormer CEO of Microsoft
- Sheryl SandbergFormer COO of Meta
- Paul GrahamCo-Founder of Y Combinator
- Michael BloombergCo-Founder and CEO of Bloomberg L.P.
Northeastern University
- Nikesh AroraChairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks
- Shawn FanningFounder of Napster
- Biz StoneCo-Founder of Twitter
- Marc RaibertFounder of Boston Dynamics
- Bob DavisFounder and CEO of Lycos
Boston University
- Karen LynchFormer CEO of CVS Health
- David ZaslavCEO of Warner Bros. Discovery
- Reshma KewalramaniCEO of Vertex Pharmaceuticals
- Allen QuestromFormer CEO of Macy's and JCPenney
- Nancy DubucFormer CEO of Vice Media
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Dean KamenFounder of DEKA, inventor of the Segway
- Paul AllaireFormer CEO of Xerox
- Jeremy HitchcockCo-Founder and former CEO of Dyn
- Naveen SelvaduraiCo-Founder of Foursquare
- Robert StempelFormer Chairman and CEO of General Motors
Babson College
- Arthur BlankCo-Founder of The Home Depot
- Akio ToyodaChairman of Toyota Motor Corporation
- Roger EnricoFormer CEO of PepsiCo
- Gustavo CisnerosChairman of Grupo Cisneros
- C. Dean MetropoulosInvestor, co-owner of Hostess Brands
Bentley University
- Marcelo ClaureFormer CEO of Sprint, Founder of Brightstar
- Lisa Lutoff-PerloFormer CEO of Celebrity Cruises
- Arthur T. DemoulasCEO of Market Basket
- William C. FredaFormer Vice Chairman at Deloitte
- Fahim SalehFounder of Gokada and Pathao
Tufts University
- Pierre OmidyarFounder of eBay
- Jamie DimonChairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase
- Ellen KullmanFormer CEO of DuPont
- Meg HourihanCo-Founder of Pyra Labs, creator of Blogger
- Scott SanbornCEO of LendingClub
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.
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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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