Minnesota
Minnesota's tech economy is anchored by an unusually deep Fortune 500 base in the Twin Cities: Target, Best Buy, UnitedHealth, and 3M all run large technology teams, and a healthy fintech and medtech startup layer sits alongside them. The roles skew enterprise software, health tech, and retail technology.
Open Positions425 jobs in Minnesota
Where Minnesota’s tech talent studies
The University of Minnesota is the engine, producing Netscape's Marc Andreessen and supercomputer pioneer Seymour Cray, and it feeds the Twin Cities corporate tech teams directly. The elite liberal-arts colleges (Carleton, Macalester) add a strong pipeline of engineers and founders.
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
- Marc AndreessenCo-Founder of Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz
- Seymour CraySupercomputer pioneer, founder of Cray Research
- Ernst AlexandersonProlific engineer and inventor
- Robert MondaviWine industry magnate
- Ann BancroftPolar explorer
Carleton College
- Adam SteltznerNASA JPL lead engineer for the Mars Curiosity landing
- Thorstein VeblenInfluential economist
- Jonathan CapehartPulitzer Prize-winning journalist
- Roy Blount Jr.Author and humorist
Macalester College
- Walter Mondale45th Vice President of the United States
- Kofi AnnanFormer UN Secretary-General and Nobel laureate
- Tim GunnFashion consultant and TV personality
- Peter BergFilmmaker and director
University of St. Thomas
- Richard SchulzeFounder of Best Buy
- Marilyn Carlson NelsonFormer CEO of Carlson
- Timothy PawlentyFormer Governor of Minnesota
Minnesota State University, Mankato
- Gary EichtenLongtime Minnesota Public Radio journalist
- Pam BortonChampionship coach and leadership author
- Dana WachsAttorney and public figure
Unicorn startups in Minnesota
Minnesota's private unicorns lean fintech: instant-pay platform Branch and lending CRM Total Expert both reached the mark in Minneapolis. Much of the state's tech weight, though, sits in its large public corporations rather than in venture-backed startups.
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Tech jobs in Minnesota: common questions
How many tech jobs are open in Minnesota right now?
Feeny is tracking about 425 open tech roles in Minnesota from roughly 109 companies. They come from the employers' own career pages and get refreshed regularly, so a role that fills stops showing up instead of hanging around stale. Most of that count sits in the Twin Cities.
Which Minnesota cities have the most tech jobs?
Minneapolis is the main hub, and it carries the overwhelming majority of the state's tech hiring together with its Twin Cities twin, St. Paul. Unlike a state with several competing tech towns, Minnesota's software work is heavily concentrated in this one metro. Across the state Feeny indexes 2 Minnesota cities, but Minneapolis is where you should point your search first.
What companies are hiring for tech roles in Minnesota?
This is a Fortune 500 state, and its big employers all run large technology teams: Target, Best Buy, UnitedHealth, and 3M among them. That corporate base is unusually deep for a metro this size. Alongside it sits a healthy fintech and medtech startup layer, so you are not choosing only between giant enterprises.
What kinds of tech roles are common in Minnesota?
Enterprise software leads, which makes sense given how many large corporations headquarter here. Health tech is a genuine specialty thanks to UnitedHealth and the medtech cluster, and retail technology follows from Target and Best Buy. If you want to work on systems that serve millions of users inside a big, stable company, few markets offer more of it per capita.
What is it like to work in tech in Minnesota?
Cost of living sits right around the national average, so a Twin Cities salary stretches further than the same pay would in Boston or Seattle. The trade you make is character: this is more corporate-enterprise than scrappy-startup, so the work tends to be stable and well-structured rather than move-fast chaotic. The winters are genuinely long, and locals will tell you that plainly. For engineers who value stability, strong benefits, and a livable cost base, it is an underrated market.
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