--- title: 'Tech & AI jobs in New Jersey' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/location/new-jersey' type: 'location' --- # Tech & AI jobs in New Jersey > New Jersey's tech economy runs on its proximity to New York and its old pharma-and-telecom roots. The fintech corridor along the Hudson (Cross River, DriveWealth in Jersey City and Hoboken) hires heavily, and enterprise names like iCIMS and CoreWeave scaled here. Many roles are New York jobs with a Jersey address, plus a real homegrown fintech and infrastructure layer. - **Open roles:** 712 - **Hiring companies:** 144 - **Region type:** state - **Timezone:** America/New_York - **Population:** 9,290,000 - **Cost of living:** 14% above the US average, driven by proximity to New York City. - **Climate:** Humid continental to subtropical, with hot summers and cold winters. Coastal weather along the Jersey Shore. - **Page:** https://feeny.ai/location/new-jersey ## Cities in New Jersey - [Livingston](https://feeny.ai/location/new-jersey/livingston) — 119 jobs - [Jersey City](https://feeny.ai/location/new-jersey/jersey-city) — 90 jobs - [Princeton](https://feeny.ai/location/new-jersey/princeton) — 73 jobs ## Top companies hiring in New Jersey - [CoreWeave](https://feeny.ai/companies/coreweave) — 118 open roles - [Osmo](https://feeny.ai/companies/osmo) — 13 open roles - [GenScript/ProBio](https://feeny.ai/companies/genscript-probio) — 45 open roles - [Conner Strong & Buckelew](https://feeny.ai/companies/conner-strong-buckelew) — 11 open roles - [Chefman](https://feeny.ai/companies/chefman) — 11 open roles - [Sourgum](https://feeny.ai/companies/sourgum) — 12 open roles - [MLB Network](https://feeny.ai/companies/mlb-network) — 11 open roles - [Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc.](https://feeny.ai/companies/acadia-pharmaceuticals-inc) — 27 open roles - [Kyowa Kirin North America](https://feeny.ai/companies/kyowa-kirin-north-america) — 9 open roles - [Third Party Job Board](https://feeny.ai/companies/third-party-job-board) — 11 open roles - [LG Electronics](https://feeny.ai/companies/lg-electronics) — 23 open roles - [J&J Snack Foods](https://feeny.ai/companies/j-j-snack-foods) — 17 open roles ## Top Universities **Where New Jersey's tech talent studies** Princeton anchors the talent pool, sending founders and executives (Bezos, Schmidt, Meg Whitman) into the industry. Rutgers supplies engineers at scale, Stevens Institute of Technology has a deep industrial lineage (a Texas Instruments co-founder, the inventor of Bubble Wrap), and NJIT feeds the Newark tech corridor. - **Princeton University** (Princeton, NJ · 5,600 undergrads) — notable alumni: Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, Meg Whitman, Lisa P. Jackson, Wendy Kopp - **Rutgers University** (New Brunswick, NJ · 36,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Gary Cohn, James Gorman, Milton Friedman, Ralph Izzo, Junot Díaz - **Stevens Institute of Technology** (Hoboken, NJ · 4,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Eugene McDermott, Alfred Fielding, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Charles Stewart Mott, Henry Gantt - **New Jersey Institute of Technology** (Newark, NJ · 9,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Naveen Jain, Jim Rogers, Lawrence Bossidy, Alfred C. Koeppe, Foster Provost - **The College of New Jersey** (Ewing, NJ · 7,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: David Weild IV, Nicole Junkermann, Kelly Ripa, John Sarno, Michael Doyle - **Rowan University** (Glassboro, NJ · 16,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Henry Rowan, Ali Houshmand, Jim Cawley, Bill Spadea, Angela Robinson ## Top Unicorns **Unicorn startups in New Jersey** The unicorn bench is fintech-heavy: banking-as-a-service at Cross River, brokerage infrastructure at DriveWealth, and SMS marketing at Attentive. iCIMS in HR software rounds out a group built on financial and enterprise plumbing rather than consumer apps. - **[Attentive](https://feeny.ai/companies/attentive)** — $7B · AI-powered SMS & email marketing for e-commerce - **Cross River Bank** — $3B · Banking-as-a-service for embedded payments & lending - **[DriveWealth](https://feeny.ai/companies/drivewealth)** — $3B · Brokerage-infrastructure APIs for fractional investing - **iCIMS** — $3B · Cloud talent-acquisition platform for recruiting & hiring - **[Semperis](https://feeny.ai/companies/semperis)** — $1B · Identity security & cyber-resilience for Active Directory ## FAQ **Tech jobs in New Jersey: common questions** ### How many tech jobs are open in New Jersey right now? Feeny lists about 712 open tech roles in New Jersey from roughly 144 companies. They are pulled from employers' own career pages and kept current, so what shows up is actually open. A chunk of these are really New York jobs wearing a New Jersey address, which is worth knowing as you read the count. ### Which New Jersey cities have the most tech jobs? Jersey City leads, riding the fintech corridor along the Hudson directly across from Manhattan. Livingston and Princeton hold their own clusters, with Princeton leaning on its old pharma and research roots. The openings span 3 New Jersey cities, and the ones nearest the river tend to be the most tightly linked to the New York economy. ### What companies are hiring for tech roles in New Jersey? The Hudson fintech corridor is where a lot of the hiring happens: Cross River and DriveWealth run their engineering out of the Jersey City and Hoboken area. Beyond fintech, enterprise names like iCIMS and CoreWeave scaled up here, the latter now one of the more talked-about infrastructure companies in the country. Together they give the state a homegrown layer that isn't just spillover from Manhattan. ### What kinds of tech roles are common in New Jersey? Fintech and financial infrastructure dominate, a direct result of sitting next to Wall Street and hosting the Hudson corridor firms. Enterprise software and cloud infrastructure round it out, with old pharma and telecom roots still feeding some of the science-adjacent roles. A fair number of listings are NYC positions with a New Jersey location, so read the details if a short commute matters to you. ### What is it like to work in tech in New Jersey? Cost of living runs about 14% above the national average, and proximity to New York is most of the reason. The upside of that proximity is access: you can hold a Manhattan-caliber fintech job while living somewhere with more space and, in many towns, better schools than the city offers. The trade is that a lot of the market is defined by New York rather than standing on its own, so your options often route through the city's economy. For someone who wants the New York job market without living in it, the state is a practical middle ground. --- _Source: https://feeny.ai/location/new-jersey_