North Carolina
North Carolina's tech is a Research Triangle story: Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill sit close enough to share a talent pool, and Epic Games, Red Ventures, and Pendo all hire heavily there. Charlotte adds a banking-and-fintech layer. The pull is cost: you get coastal-caliber engineers at a fraction of Bay Area rents, which is why the corridor keeps growing.
Open Positions1,115 jobs in North Carolina
Where North Carolina’s tech talent studies
Three research universities anchor the Triangle: Duke (Tim Cook, Melinda French Gates, Coinbase's Fred Ehrsam), UNC Chapel Hill, and NC State, whose alumni include SAS founder James Goodnight and Apple COO Jeff Williams. Together they feed one of the strongest per-capita tech talent pools in the Southeast.
Duke University
- Tim CookCEO of Apple
- Melinda French GatesCo-Founder of the Gates Foundation
- Eddy CueSVP of Services at Apple
- Fred EhrsamCo-Founder of Coinbase and Paradigm
- Chad DickersonFormer CEO of Etsy
North Carolina State University
- James GoodnightCo-Founder and CEO of SAS Institute
- Jeff WilliamsLongtime COO of Apple
- Marshall BrainFounder of HowStuffWorks
- Anand Lal ShimpiFounder of AnandTech, later at Apple
- Annie AntónPrivacy scholar and cybersecurity policy advisor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Sallie KrawcheckCEO of Ellevest, former CFO of Citigroup
- Jason KilarFounding CEO of Hulu, former CEO of WarnerMedia
- David GardnerCo-Founder of The Motley Fool
- Peter GrauerChairman of Bloomberg L.P.
- Hugh McCollFormer CEO of Bank of America
Wake Forest University
- Kevin ScottChief Technology Officer of Microsoft
- Charlie ErgenCo-Founder of Dish Network
- Zach KleinCo-Founder of Vimeo
- Warren StephensCEO of Stephens Inc.
- David FarrFormer CEO of Emerson Electric
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Robert A. NiblockFormer CEO of Lowe's
- Raphael TsuCo-inventor of the semiconductor superlattice
- Shane WightonCreator of the Stuff Made Here channel
- Jill S. TietjenElectrical engineer and IEEE Fellow
- Greg GburPhysicist and science author
North Carolina A&T State University
- Ronald McNairPhysicist and NASA astronaut
- Janice Bryant HowroydFounder and CEO of the ActOne Group
- Joe DudleyFounder and CEO of Dudley Products
- Harold L. MartinEngineer and chancellor of NC A&T
- Quincy K. BrownComputer scientist, former White House OSTP advisor
Davidson College
- John ChidseyCEO of Subway, former CEO of Burger King
- Stephen P. MacMillanFormer CEO of Stryker, now leads Hologic
- Lorie K. LoganPresident of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
- James BattenFormer CEO of Knight-Ridder
- Lunsford RichardsonInventor of Vicks VapoRub
Unicorn startups in North Carolina
Epic Games headlines the roster at a scale no other NC company matches, with Fortnite and the Unreal Engine. Below it sits a solid enterprise-software bench: product analytics at Pendo, financial reporting at insightsoftware, and global hiring at Oyster.
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Tech jobs in North Carolina: common questions
How many tech jobs are open in North Carolina right now?
Feeny is tracking about 1,115 open tech roles in North Carolina from roughly 200 companies. Each comes from an employer's own careers page and gets refreshed, so a role that fills drops off instead of lingering. The count splits between the Research Triangle and Charlotte's banking scene.
Which North Carolina cities have the most tech jobs?
The Research Triangle does most of the work: Raleigh, Durham, Cary, and Chapel Hill share one talent pool spread across a short drive. Charlotte adds a separate hub built on banking and fintech. The openings cover 4 North Carolina cities, so you are effectively choosing between two distinct scenes about two hours apart.
What companies are hiring for tech roles in North Carolina?
Epic Games, Red Ventures, and Pendo are the Triangle names that hire heavily, spanning games, marketing tech, and product analytics. Charlotte's story is finance, where the big banks and their fintech partners keep a steady demand for engineers. The Triangle's three research universities feed both, which is why the talent pool stays deep even as companies come and go.
What kinds of tech roles are common in North Carolina?
The Triangle skews toward product engineering, games, and marketing and analytics software, following its marquee employers. Charlotte concentrates on financial technology and the systems that run big banks. Between the two you get a broad mix rather than a single specialty, which makes the state easier to job-hop within than a one-industry market.
What is it like to work in tech in North Carolina?
The pull here is cost. Living runs about 4% below the national average, and the Research Triangle in particular lets you earn a strong engineering salary while paying a fraction of Bay Area rent. The trade-off is that the very top-tier, name-brand employers are fewer than on the coasts, so the ceiling on prestige jobs is a little lower even as the day-to-day quality of life is higher. For engineers who want serious work without coastal housing costs, it has become one of the most popular places to relocate, and the growth shows.
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