--- title: 'Tech & AI jobs in Ohio' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/location/ohio' type: 'location' --- # Tech & AI jobs in Ohio > Ohio spreads its tech across three metros: Columbus (the fastest-growing, and now home to a massive Intel chip plant under construction), Cleveland, and Cincinnati. Big employers like 84.51° (Kroger's data arm) and a robotics cluster around Path Robotics anchor it. The roles lean enterprise, data, and advanced manufacturing rather than consumer startups. - **Open roles:** 484 - **Hiring companies:** 139 - **Region type:** state - **Timezone:** America/New_York - **Population:** 11,790,000 - **Cost of living:** 8% below the US average, one of the more affordable tech markets. - **Climate:** Humid continental, with warm humid summers and cold winters. Lake-effect snow hits the northeast near Cleveland. - **Page:** https://feeny.ai/location/ohio ## Cities in Ohio - [Columbus](https://feeny.ai/location/ohio/columbus) — 165 jobs - [Ashville](https://feeny.ai/location/ohio/ashville) — 99 jobs - [Cincinnati](https://feeny.ai/location/ohio/cincinnati) — 81 jobs - [Cleveland](https://feeny.ai/location/ohio/cleveland) — 51 jobs ## Top companies hiring in Ohio - [Path Robotics](https://feeny.ai/companies/path-robotics) — 32 open roles - [84.51° ](https://feeny.ai/companies/84-51) — 13 open roles - [Forge Biologics](https://feeny.ai/companies/forge-biologics) — 12 open roles - [AMEND Consulting](https://feeny.ai/companies/amend-consulting) — 12 open roles - [AtriCure](https://feeny.ai/companies/atricure) — 27 open roles - [Zenni Optical](https://feeny.ai/companies/zenni-optical) — 14 open roles - [Hims & Hers](https://feeny.ai/companies/hims-hers) — 15 open roles - [Axogen](https://feeny.ai/companies/axogen) — 8 open roles - [Woolpert](https://feeny.ai/companies/woolpert) — 17 open roles - [Impact.com](https://feeny.ai/companies/impact-com) — 12 open roles - [STR](https://feeny.ai/companies/str) — 12 open roles - [Re:Build Manufacturing](https://feeny.ai/companies/re-build-manufacturing) — 9 open roles ## Top Universities **Where Ohio's tech talent studies** Ohio State is the largest feeder, with alumni from L Brands' Les Wexner to Wendy's founder Dave Thomas. Case Western Reserve punches above its size in tech (Craigslist's Craig Newmark, Gmail's Paul Buchheit), and Cincinnati invented the co-op model that shaped modern tech internships. - **The Ohio State University** (Columbus, OH · 47,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Les Wexner, Charles F. Kettering, Bob Evans, Jack Nicklaus, R. David Thomas - **Case Western Reserve University** (Cleveland, OH · 6,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Craig Newmark, Paul Buchheit, Donald Knuth, Peter Tippett, M. Frank Rudy - **University of Cincinnati** (Cincinnati, OH · 38,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Kirk Perry, Albert Sabin, Herman Schneider, Charles Kettering, Sanford Weill - **Miami University** (Oxford, OH · 17,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: John W. Rowe, P. Roy Vagelos, Wayne Embry, Bob Weiler, Michael Coles - **University of Dayton** (Dayton, OH · 8,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Charles J. Pedersen, Jack Hoeft, Chuck Noll - **Kent State University** (Kent, OH · 20,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Lou Holtz, Michael Keaton, Steve Harvey ## Top Unicorns **Unicorn startups in Ohio** Ohio's private unicorn bench is small: autonomous welding robots at Path Robotics and the celebrity-video marketplace Cameo are the clearest still-private names. The state's tech weight sits more in corporate data teams and the incoming Intel fabs than in startups. - **[Path Robotics](https://feeny.ai/companies/path-robotics)** — $1.3B · AI-powered autonomous robotic welding - **[Cameo](https://feeny.ai/companies/cameo)** — $1B · Marketplace for personalized celebrity video messages ## FAQ **Tech jobs in Ohio: common questions** ### How many tech jobs are open in Ohio right now? Feeny is tracking about 484 open tech roles in Ohio from 139 companies hiring across the state. These come straight off employer career pages, so the count moves as roles open and close instead of sitting on a stale board. Ohio spreads its hiring across three metros rather than one, which is why the number stays healthy even when a single city cools off. ### Which Ohio cities have the most tech jobs? Columbus does the heaviest hiring, and it is growing fastest now that Intel is building a large chip plant just outside the city. Cincinnati and Cleveland fill out most of the rest, each with its own base of enterprise and manufacturing employers. Across the 4 Ohio cities we index, the roles are less clustered than in a single tech hub, so where you look matters. ### What companies are hiring for tech roles in Ohio? 84.51 degrees, Kroger's data science arm, is one of the bigger draws for anyone who wants to work on retail data at scale. Path Robotics anchors a small robotics cluster building welding automation. Beyond those, a lot of the hiring comes from established enterprises and manufacturers staffing up their software and data teams rather than from a wave of consumer startups. ### What kinds of tech roles are common in Ohio? The work here leans enterprise: data engineering, backend software, and the kind of internal platforms big companies run. Advanced manufacturing and robotics add hardware-adjacent and automation roles, and the Intel plant will pull in semiconductor and process work as it comes online. If you are chasing a seed-stage consumer app, Ohio is thinner, but for data and enterprise engineering it is deep. ### What is it like to work in tech in Ohio? The clearest draw is money going further: Ohio's cost of living runs about 8 percent below the national average, so a mid-level salary buys a house here that it would not near the coasts. The trade is a scene built around large employers and manufacturing more than a dense startup crowd, though Columbus is changing that as it grows. If you want stable, well-paid engineering work without coastal rent, the math is hard to argue with. --- _Source: https://feeny.ai/location/ohio_