---
title: 'Tech & AI jobs in New York'
canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/location/new-york'
type: 'location'
---

# Tech & AI jobs in New York

> New York runs its tech scene on money and media. Fintech leads the way, with Ramp, Justworks, and the hedge fund Point72 all hiring, and a fast-growing legal-and-enterprise AI cluster around Harvey, EliseAI, and Clay. The New York Times and DoorDash keep large engineering teams here too, so the roles span Wall Street infrastructure, consumer apps, and the AI startups filling in between.

- **Open roles:** 10438
- **Hiring companies:** 1515
- **Region type:** state
- **Timezone:** America/New_York
- **Population:** 19,570,000
- **Cost of living:** 25% above the US average — driven by New York City housing and taxes.
- **Climate:** Humid continental — hot, humid summers and cold, snowy winters. Four distinct seasons across the state, milder near the coast.
- **Page:** https://feeny.ai/location/new-york

## Cities in New York

- [New York](https://feeny.ai/location/new-york/new-york) — 9510 jobs
- [New York City](https://feeny.ai/location/new-york/new-york-city) — 143 jobs
- [Brooklyn](https://feeny.ai/location/new-york/brooklyn) — 135 jobs
- [Manhattan](https://feeny.ai/location/new-york/manhattan) — 54 jobs

## Top companies hiring in New York

- [The New York Times](https://feeny.ai/companies/the-new-york-times) — 141 open roles
- [Profound](https://feeny.ai/companies/profound) — 78 open roles
- [EliseAI](https://feeny.ai/companies/eliseai) — 84 open roles
- [Polymarket](https://feeny.ai/companies/polymarket) — 63 open roles
- [Ramp](https://feeny.ai/companies/ramp) — 91 open roles
- [Forus](https://feeny.ai/companies/forus) — 41 open roles
- [Basis AI](https://feeny.ai/companies/basis-ai) — 37 open roles
- [Clay Labs](https://feeny.ai/companies/clay-labs) — 55 open roles
- [Justworks](https://feeny.ai/companies/justworks) — 67 open roles
- [Tabs](https://feeny.ai/companies/tabs) — 36 open roles
- [Betterment](https://feeny.ai/companies/betterment) — 35 open roles
- [Fora](https://feeny.ai/companies/fora) — 35 open roles

## Top Universities

**Where New York's tech talent studies**

New York's tech talent comes from two directions. Cornell and Columbia feed founders and investors into the city (Cornell alone produced Qualcomm's Irwin Jacobs and Y Combinator's Paul Graham), while NYU sits in the middle of Manhattan and sends engineers straight into its startups. Upstate does the heavy engineering: RPI, Rochester, and RIT turn out the hardware and systems people, and Baruch quietly feeds Wall Street's finance-and-tech pipeline.

- **Cornell University** (Ithaca, NY · 16,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Irwin M. Jacobs, David Duffield, Paul Graham, Jeff Hawkins, Robert F. Smith
- **Columbia University** (New York, NY · 9,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Warren Buffett, Ben Horowitz, Henry Kravis, Vikram Pandit, John Backus
- **New York University** (New York, NY · 29,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Jack Dorsey, Dan Schulman, Eugene Kleiner, Kenneth Langone, Charles Ranlett Flint
- **Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute** (Troy, NY · 5,700 undergrads) — notable alumni: Curtis Priem, Gary Burrell, Marcian Hoff, Robert Scaringe, J. Erik Jonsson
- **University of Rochester** (Rochester, NY · 6,500 undergrads) — notable alumni: Paul Singer, Joseph C. Wilson, Avie Tevanian, Robert T. Huang, Bruce Schneier
- **Rochester Institute of Technology** (Rochester, NY · 13,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Koo Kwang-mo, John Resig, Alex Kipman, Austin McChord, Steve Capps
- **Stony Brook University** (Stony Brook, NY · 18,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Jon Oringer, Glenn Dubin, Richard Gelfond, John L. Hennessy, Henry Swieca
- **Baruch College** (New York, NY · 16,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Ralph Lauren, Jacky Wright, Adam Neumann, Sidney Harman, Lara Abrash

## Top Unicorns

**Unicorn startups in New York**

The city's unicorns cluster where its money already sits: payments and spend at Ramp, crypto infrastructure at Fireblocks and Chainalysis, and investing at Betterment. The newer wave is applied AI, with Harvey building for law firms and EliseAI for housing and healthcare.

- **[Ramp](https://feeny.ai/companies/ramp)** — $22.5B · Corporate cards & spend management
- **[Harvey](https://feeny.ai/companies/harvey)** — $5B · Generative AI for legal work
- **[Fireblocks](https://feeny.ai/companies/fireblocks)** — $8B · Crypto custody & transfer infrastructure
- **[Chainalysis](https://feeny.ai/companies/chainalysis-government-solutions)** — $8.6B · Blockchain data & compliance analytics
- **Ro** — $7B · Direct-to-patient telehealth
- **[Attentive](https://feeny.ai/companies/attentive)** — $7B · SMS & email marketing automation
- **Dataminr** — $4.1B · Real-time AI event detection & alerts
- **[Justworks](https://feeny.ai/companies/justworks)** — $2B · HR, payroll & benefits platform (PEO)
- **[Zocdoc](https://feeny.ai/companies/zocdoc)** — $1.8B · Online doctor search & booking
- **[Yotpo](https://feeny.ai/companies/yotpo)** — $1.4B · eCommerce marketing & retention
- **[Betterment](https://feeny.ai/companies/betterment)** — $1.3B · Automated investing & robo-advisory
- **[EliseAI](https://feeny.ai/companies/eliseai)** — $1B · Conversational AI for housing & healthcare

## Events

**What's happening in New York**

- [NYC Backstage Pass: Spotify x Design Meetup](https://luma.com/j76178ol) — 2026-08-07 · New York
- [Not Your Average Happy Hour🤸](https://luma.com/2blhg706) — 2026-08-07 · New York
- [August TGNC Swim Night](https://luma.com/AugustTGNCSwim) — 2026-08-07 · New York
- [Just Sicilian Dinner by Sam Ong](https://luma.com/dinneraug7) — 2026-08-07 · New York
- [The Kindling x ZāR: A Sauna Night of Ritual, Rhythm and Release](https://luma.com/the-kindling-zar-08-07) — 2026-08-08 · New York
- [Dilly Dally Fair - 2026 summer edition](https://luma.com/5ra9oox0) — 2026-08-08 · New York
- [Maum Market NYC](https://luma.com/8ktaqw8z) — 2026-08-08 · New York
- [MBC 4.0 - 808 Matcha Hits Party](https://luma.com/tm45uatr) — 2026-08-08 · New York
- [Lumin Coffee Rave - Vol. 1](https://luma.com/tsnuqvgs) — 2026-08-08 · New York

## FAQ

**Tech jobs in New York: common questions**

### How many tech jobs are open in New York right now?

Feeny is tracking about 10,438 open tech, startup, and AI roles across New York, from 1,515 companies actively hiring. The number moves week to week as boards refresh, so what you see is live, not a stale snapshot. Most of it sits in the city, but the count spans everything from Series A startups to the engineering teams at DoorDash and The New York Times.

### Which New York cities have the most tech jobs?

Manhattan does most of the hiring by a wide margin, and Brooklyn has become a real second center for startups. Upstate is smaller but genuine: Rochester still runs on its optics and imaging heritage, and Ithaca feeds off Cornell. Across 4 New York cities on Feeny, the pattern holds that the closer you get to Lower Manhattan and the Flatiron district, the denser the fintech and enterprise-AI roles get.

### What companies are hiring for tech roles in New York?

The mix is money, media, and a fast-rising AI layer. Ramp and Justworks anchor fintech, the hedge fund Point72 hires quants and engineers, and Harvey, EliseAI, and Clay lead a legal-and-enterprise AI cluster that barely existed three years ago. The New York Times and DoorDash keep large product and engineering teams here too, so you are not choosing between startups and scale, you get both.

### What kinds of tech roles are common in New York?

New York rewards people who can sit at the seam between technology and a regulated industry. Fintech and trading pull in backend engineers, quants, and infrastructure people; the AI startups want applied ML and founding engineers; and the media and commerce giants hire across product, design, and data. If your background touches finance, law, or advertising, this is the market where that context is an asset instead of a footnote.

### What is it like to work in tech in New York?

It is expensive and it is dense, and for a lot of people that trade is the point. The cost of living runs well above the national average, driven almost entirely by city housing, but you are inside the country's second-largest tech ecosystem with an in-person culture that runs on meetups, demo nights, and a short subway ride between offices. Remote and hybrid roles exist, but New York still skews toward showing up, and the payoff is a scene where the fintech, media, and AI worlds actually overlap.

---
_Source: https://feeny.ai/location/new-york_