Oregon

Feeny lists roughly 427 open tech roles in Oregon from 131 companies hiring. The postings are pulled live from company career pages, so a closed req drops off instead of lingering as a dead listing. Most of that volume sits in and around Portland, where the state's tech employers concentrate.

Portland is the center of gravity for Oregon tech, and it is the main city we index for the state. Intel's Hillsboro campus just outside Portland is the state's largest private employer, so a good share of hiring happens in that western suburb belt. Across the 1 Oregon cities we track, Portland and its immediate metro account for most of the open roles.

Intel dominates the hardware side out of Hillsboro, and the roles there run deep into chip manufacturing and process engineering. Nike and Columbia anchor the consumer and athletic-brand tech, hiring engineers to build the software behind the products. On the enterprise side, startups like Iterable and Jama build tools that keep a smaller but real SaaS scene alive.

Chip and hardware work is the backbone, thanks to Intel's footprint, so semiconductor and manufacturing engineering roles show up more here than in most states. Nike and Columbia pull in product and consumer-software engineers on the brand side. The SaaS layer is smaller than the coastal hubs, but companies like Iterable and Jama keep enterprise software and platform roles in the mix.

Portland's cost of living runs about 13 percent above the national average, and housing is the main reason, so a salary stretches less here than the state's laid-back reputation suggests. What you get for it is a mix you do not find everywhere: serious hardware work at Intel, brand tech at Nike, and no sales tax on top. The startup scene is quieter than Seattle or the Bay, so if you want a big SaaS crowd this is a smaller pond.