--- title: 'Tech & AI jobs in North Carolina' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/location/north-carolina' type: 'location' --- # Tech & AI jobs in 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 roles:** 1115 - **Hiring companies:** 200 - **Region type:** state - **Timezone:** America/New_York - **Population:** 10,840,000 - **Cost of living:** near the US average, with the Research Triangle among the more affordable tech hubs. - **Climate:** Humid subtropical, with hot summers and mild winters. Cooler in the Appalachian mountains to the west, warmer near the coast. - **Page:** https://feeny.ai/location/north-carolina ## Cities in North Carolina - [Charlotte](https://feeny.ai/location/north-carolina/charlotte) — 494 jobs - [Raleigh](https://feeny.ai/location/north-carolina/raleigh) — 285 jobs - [Cary](https://feeny.ai/location/north-carolina/cary) — 74 jobs - [Durham](https://feeny.ai/location/north-carolina/durham) — 51 jobs ## Top companies hiring in North Carolina - [Vulcan Elements](https://feeny.ai/companies/vulcan-elements) — 37 open roles - [Relay](https://feeny.ai/companies/relay-3) — 23 open roles - [Scout Motors](https://feeny.ai/companies/scout-motors) — 103 open roles - [Kraken Kinetics](https://feeny.ai/companies/kraken-kinetics) — 19 open roles - [Judi Health](https://feeny.ai/companies/judi-health) — 35 open roles - [CPI Security](https://feeny.ai/companies/cpi-security) — 33 open roles - [Bandwidth](https://feeny.ai/companies/bandwidth) — 24 open roles - [Red Ventures](https://feeny.ai/companies/red-ventures) — 36 open roles - [Hopscotch Primary Care](https://feeny.ai/companies/hopscotch-primary-care) — 16 open roles - [Hawthorne Residential Partners](https://feeny.ai/companies/hawthorne-residential-partners) — 44 open roles - [Pendo](https://feeny.ai/companies/pendo) — 24 open roles - [LendingTree](https://feeny.ai/companies/lendingtree) — 14 open roles ## Top Universities **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** (Durham, NC · 6,400 undergrads) — notable alumni: Tim Cook, Melinda French Gates, Eddy Cue, Fred Ehrsam, Chad Dickerson - **North Carolina State University** (Raleigh, NC · 27,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: James Goodnight, Jeff Williams, Marshall Brain, Anand Lal Shimpi, Annie Antón - **University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill** (Chapel Hill, NC · 21,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Sallie Krawcheck, Jason Kilar, David Gardner, Peter Grauer, Hugh McColl - **Wake Forest University** (Winston-Salem, NC · 5,500 undergrads) — notable alumni: Kevin Scott, Charlie Ergen, Zach Klein, Warren Stephens, David Farr - **University of North Carolina at Charlotte** (Charlotte, NC · 24,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Robert A. Niblock, Raphael Tsu, Shane Wighton, Jill S. Tietjen, Greg Gbur - **North Carolina A&T State University** (Greensboro, NC · 12,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Ronald McNair, Janice Bryant Howroyd, Joe Dudley, Harold L. Martin, Quincy K. Brown - **Davidson College** (Davidson, NC · 1,900 undergrads) — notable alumni: John Chidsey, Stephen P. MacMillan, Lorie K. Logan, James Batten, Lunsford Richardson ## Top Unicorns **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. - **[Epic Games](https://feeny.ai/companies/epic-games)** — $23B · Maker of Fortnite and the Unreal Engine - **insightsoftware** — $4B · Financial reporting & enterprise performance management - **[Pendo](https://feeny.ai/companies/pendo)** — $2.6B · Product analytics & in-app digital adoption - **Vantaca** — $1.25B · AI-driven community-association management software - **[Teamworks](https://feeny.ai/companies/teamworks)** — $1.24B · Operating system for sports organizations - **[Oyster](https://feeny.ai/companies/oyster)** — $1.2B · Global employment platform for distributed teams - **Printful** — $1B · On-demand printing & dropshipping for e-commerce - **JupiterOne** — $1B · Cyber asset attack-surface management & cloud security - **Tresata** — $1B · Real-time customer-intelligence & data analytics ## Events **What's happening in North Carolina** - [TEDx Parrish Street 2026](https://luma.com/3ykywa9x) — 2026-08-14 · Raleigh - [NC MLP CLUB: Cary, NC Meetup](https://luma.com/2soo6gkl) — 2026-08-15 · Raleigh - [Petals & Charms 💐🌼](https://luma.com/petalsandcharms) — 2026-08-15 · Raleigh - [Student Showcase](https://luma.com/6or7wkwj) — 2026-08-25 · Raleigh - [Triangle CPG Meetup - August](https://luma.com/p656gjk4) — 2026-08-27 · Raleigh - [Triangle Climate Connections: Meetup with Carolina Climate and Duke Design Climate](https://luma.com/eid7nzzj) — 2026-08-27 · Raleigh - [Book BFF 📚💌⏱️ - Book Bestie Speed Dating](https://luma.com/bookbff) — 2026-08-28 · Raleigh ## FAQ **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. --- _Source: https://feeny.ai/location/north-carolina_