--- title: 'Tech & AI jobs in Michigan' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/location/michigan' type: 'location' --- # Tech & AI jobs in Michigan > Michigan's tech economy is inseparable from cars: Detroit and Ann Arbor host the autonomy and mobility work (May Mobility, Torc, Applied Intuition all hire here) as the auto industry rebuilds around software. Ann Arbor, on the back of the University of Michigan, adds a broader startup layer. The roles skew autonomous vehicles, embedded systems, and enterprise software. - **Open roles:** 427 - **Hiring companies:** 99 - **Region type:** state - **Timezone:** America/New_York - **Population:** 10,040,000 - **Cost of living:** 9% below the US average, affordable for a major manufacturing and tech state. - **Climate:** Humid continental, with warm summers and cold, snowy winters moderated by the Great Lakes. Four distinct seasons. - **Page:** https://feeny.ai/location/michigan ## Cities in Michigan - [Ann Arbor](https://feeny.ai/location/michigan/ann-arbor) — 94 jobs - [Detroit](https://feeny.ai/location/michigan/detroit) — 93 jobs ## Top companies hiring in Michigan - [NOX METALS](https://feeny.ai/companies/nox-metals) — 13 open roles - [Torc Robotics](https://feeny.ai/companies/torc-robotics) — 30 open roles - [Farmers District 40](https://feeny.ai/companies/farmers-district-40) — 25 open roles - [Latitude AI](https://feeny.ai/companies/latitude-ai) — 21 open roles - [May Mobility](https://feeny.ai/companies/may-mobility) — 21 open roles - [Lumbermen's](https://feeny.ai/companies/lumbermen-s) — 17 open roles - [Scout Motors](https://feeny.ai/companies/scout-motors) — 40 open roles - [fairlife](https://feeny.ai/companies/fairlife) — 14 open roles - [StockX](https://feeny.ai/companies/stockx) — 10 open roles - [Applied Intuition](https://feeny.ai/companies/applied-intuition) — 19 open roles ## Top Universities **Where Michigan's tech talent studies** The University of Michigan is a national tech feeder, producing Google's Larry Page, Nest's Tony Fadell, and Sun's Bill Joy. Michigan State sent Squarespace's Anthony Casalena and Rocket's Dan Gilbert into the industry, and the Detroit-area engineering schools (Kettering, Wayne State) feed the mobility corridor. - **University of Michigan** (Ann Arbor, MI · 33,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Larry Page, Tony Fadell, Bill Joy, Sanjay Mehrotra, Stephen Ross - **Michigan State University** (East Lansing, MI · 40,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Anthony Casalena, Eli Broad, Dan Gilbert, Robert Stempel, Tom Izzo - **Michigan Technological University** (Houghton, MI · 5,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Chris Rondeau, David House, Dennis Muilenburg - **Kettering University** (Flint, MI · 1,800 undergrads) — notable alumni: Bob Lutz, Rick Wagoner, Robert Purcell - **Wayne State University** (Detroit, MI · 17,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Mike Ilitch, Helen Thomas, Arthur Porter - **University of Michigan-Dearborn** (Dearborn, MI · 6,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Manoj Bhargava, James Hackett, Bill Ford ## Top Unicorns **Unicorn startups in Michigan** Michigan's clearest still-private unicorns are the resale marketplace StockX in Detroit and autonomous-shuttle maker May Mobility in Ann Arbor. The broader mobility scene here runs on the auto industry's push into software more than on classic consumer startups. - **[StockX](https://feeny.ai/companies/stockx)** — $3.8B · Online resale marketplace for sneakers & collectibles - **[May Mobility](https://feeny.ai/companies/may-mobility)** — $1B · Autonomous shuttle & microtransit technology ## FAQ **Tech jobs in Michigan: common questions** ### How many tech jobs are open in Michigan right now? Feeny lists about 427 open tech roles in Michigan from roughly 99 companies. Each one comes from an employer's own careers page and gets refreshed, so you are looking at live openings rather than months-old reposts. A good share of them tie back to the auto industry rebuilding itself around software. ### Which Michigan cities have the most tech jobs? Detroit and Ann Arbor hold most of the tech work, with Novi adding to the suburban cluster in between. Detroit is where the mobility and autonomy money lands, while Ann Arbor leans on the University of Michigan for a broader startup layer. The openings cover 2 Michigan cities, but those two do the bulk of the hiring. ### What companies are hiring for tech roles in Michigan? The autonomy and mobility names are the ones to know: May Mobility, Torc, and Applied Intuition all hire here as the car industry pivots toward self-driving software. Ann Arbor's university-fed startup scene adds a second layer beyond cars. If you have never thought of Michigan as a software state, the shift from mechanical engineering to autonomous-vehicle code is exactly what changed that. ### What kinds of tech roles are common in Michigan? Autonomous vehicles and embedded systems lead, which follows directly from who is hiring. Expect a lot of C++, sensor and perception work, and the kind of low-level engineering that consumer-app markets rarely need. Enterprise software fills out the rest, much of it around the auto supply chain. It is a market that rewards engineers who like working close to hardware. ### What is it like to work in tech in Michigan? Cost of living runs about 9% below the national average, which is a real draw when you compare a Detroit or Ann Arbor salary against coastal rents. The scene is smaller than the Bay Area or Boston, so you trade breadth of employers for a much lower cost base and a market where autonomy talent is genuinely scarce and valued. Ann Arbor in particular has the college-town texture that makes it easy to live in. The honest downside is depth: if the mobility bet cools, the number of alternative employers is thinner than in a bigger hub. --- _Source: https://feeny.ai/location/michigan_