Pennsylvania

Feeny is tracking about 904 open tech roles in Pennsylvania from 186 companies hiring. The listings come off employer career pages and refresh as roles open and fill, so you are not sifting through months-old posts. The state splits its hiring cleanly between two cities, which shapes what you find where.

Pittsburgh and Philadelphia carry the state, and they hire for different things. Pittsburgh, on the back of Carnegie Mellon, has become a robotics and autonomy hub. Philadelphia leans more toward consumer and commerce companies. Across the 2 Pennsylvania cities we index, those two account for the bulk of the open roles.

In Pittsburgh, Aurora and Gecko Robotics anchor the autonomy and robotics work that grew out of Carnegie Mellon's research. Philadelphia leans consumer and commerce, with Gopuff and Duolingo as the recognizable names hiring engineers. The through-line is a university pipeline that keeps producing strong engineers, and enough of them stay to keep both cities building.

Pittsburgh skews toward robotics, autonomy, and the machine-learning and systems work those require, a direct product of Carnegie Mellon's research base. Philadelphia tilts to consumer, commerce, and the full-stack and mobile roles that come with them. Between the two you get an unusual split for one state: hard robotics on one end, consumer apps on the other.

Cost of living sits close to the national average statewide, and Pittsburgh in particular is notably affordable for a real tech city, which is a big part of its appeal. The trade is that neither Pittsburgh nor Philadelphia is a coastal-scale hub, so the crowd is smaller and more specialized. If you want frontier robotics work without Bay Area rent, Pittsburgh is one of the best deals in the country.