--- title: 'Tech & AI jobs in Switzerland' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/location/switzerland' type: 'location' --- # Tech & AI jobs in Switzerland > Switzerland's tech economy runs on precision: a deep engineering culture out of ETH Zurich and EPFL, a strong crypto scene in Zug's Crypto Valley, and global R&D centers for Google and others in Zurich. The roles skew deep tech, developer tools, privacy, and blockchain, backed by some of the highest salaries in the world. - **Open roles:** 472 - **Hiring companies:** 102 - **Region type:** country - **Timezone:** Europe/Zurich - **Population:** 8,850,000 - **Cost of living:** one of the most expensive countries in the world, offset by very high salaries. - **Climate:** Temperate, varying with altitude: mild in the lowland cities, alpine and snowy in the mountains. - **Page:** https://feeny.ai/location/switzerland ## Cities in Switzerland - [Zurich](https://feeny.ai/location/switzerland/zurich) — 249 jobs - [Lausanne](https://feeny.ai/location/switzerland/lausanne) — 65 jobs ## Top companies hiring in Switzerland - [Adaptyv](https://feeny.ai/companies/adaptyv) — 32 open roles - [Jua](https://feeny.ai/companies/jua) — 10 open roles - [Blockstream](https://feeny.ai/companies/blockstream) — 25 open roles - [Xebia DACH](https://feeny.ai/companies/xebia-dach) — 10 open roles - [BLP Digital AG](https://feeny.ai/companies/blp-digital-ag) — 14 open roles - [DeepJudge](https://feeny.ai/companies/deepjudge) — 12 open roles - [Neural Concept](https://feeny.ai/companies/neural-concept) — 10 open roles - [Proton](https://feeny.ai/companies/proton) — 15 open roles - [Harmattan AI](https://feeny.ai/companies/harmattan-ai) — 23 open roles - [MiQ Digital](https://feeny.ai/companies/miq-digital) — 10 open roles - [IMC](https://feeny.ai/companies/imc) — 13 open roles - [Skydio](https://feeny.ai/companies/skydio) — 10 open roles ## Top Universities **Where Switzerland's tech talent studies** ETH Zurich and EPFL are two of the best technical universities on the planet (ETH counts Einstein and von Neumann among its people), and they feed the country's deep-tech and crypto scene directly. St. Gallen supplies the finance and management talent. - **ETH Zurich** (Zurich · 9,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Albert Einstein, John von Neumann - **EPFL** (Lausanne · 6,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Daniel Borel, Bertrand Piccard - **University of St. Gallen** (St. Gallen · 6,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Josef Ackermann, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe - **University of Zurich** (Zurich · 18,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Erwin Schrodinger, Rolf Zinkernagel - **University of Geneva** (Geneva · 17,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Jean Piaget, Michel Mayor ## Top Unicorns **Unicorn startups in Switzerland** Switzerland's unicorns lean developer and privacy tech: code quality at SonarSource, encrypted services at Proton, and crypto at 1inch, alongside climate tech in Climeworks. A high-quality bench for a small country, weighted toward infrastructure over consumer apps. - **SonarSource** — $4.7B · Code-quality & code-security tools (SonarQube) for developers - **1inch** — $2.2B · Decentralized exchange aggregator across DeFi protocols - **Nexthink** — $1.1B · Digital employee experience management for IT - **Climeworks** — $1B · Direct air capture that removes CO2 for permanent storage - **[Scandit](https://feeny.ai/companies/scandit)** — $1B · Computer-vision barcode scanning & smart data capture - **[Proton](https://feeny.ai/companies/proton)** — $1B · Privacy-focused encrypted email, VPN & cloud (ProtonMail) - **[Ledgy](https://feeny.ai/companies/ledgy)** — $1B · Equity management & cap-table software for startups ## FAQ **Tech jobs in Switzerland: common questions** ### How many tech jobs are open in Switzerland right now? Feeny is tracking about 472 open tech roles in Switzerland, from roughly 102 companies hiring. Each listing comes from a company's own careers page, so it's a live opening rather than a stale repost. Zurich carries most of the volume, with Lausanne adding a smaller pool on the French-speaking side. Filter by discipline to narrow it down. ### Which cities in Switzerland have the most tech jobs? Zurich is the primary hub, home to a large Google R&D center and the strongest concentration of deep-tech roles. Lausanne is the secondary one, anchored by EPFL on the French-speaking side of the country. Zug, just south of Zurich, punches above its size as the base of Crypto Valley. Across the 2 Swiss cities we index, Zurich is where most of the search will point. ### What companies are hiring for tech roles in Switzerland? Google runs one of its largest engineering centers outside the US in Zurich, which is a major draw on its own. The universities feed the rest: ETH Zurich and EPFL send strong engineers into deep-tech and developer-tools companies. Down in Zug, Crypto Valley anchors a cluster of blockchain firms. Feeny lists roles from about 102 companies nationwide, so the live set is worth checking directly. ### What kinds of tech roles are common in Switzerland? The mix leans deep tech, developer tools, privacy, and blockchain. ETH Zurich and EPFL produce engineers who fill research-heavy and systems roles, and Google's presence adds serious backend and infrastructure work. Zug's Crypto Valley drives blockchain and cryptography hiring. It's a market that rewards strong fundamentals over flashy product work, and the pay reflects it, sitting among the highest in the world. ### What is it like to work in tech in Switzerland? Switzerland pays as well as anywhere on earth, and the engineering bar, set by ETH and EPFL, is genuinely high. The country runs on precision, and the work tends to match. The obvious catch is cost: Zurich and Geneva are among the most expensive cities in the world, so a large salary doesn't stretch the way the number suggests. The honest trade is that you earn a lot and spend a lot, and the standard of living is very high if you can crack into the market. ### Can international candidates get a work visa to work in tech in Switzerland? This is where Switzerland is harder than most of Europe. It isn't in the EU, so it uses quotas for non-EU and non-EFTA workers, which makes hiring from outside Europe more competitive and less certain than a Blue Card process elsewhere. EU and EFTA citizens, by contrast, move freely and have a much easier path. It's worth being honest that if you're not European, Switzerland is a tougher market to break into than Germany or the Netherlands, even with the strong pay on offer. --- _Source: https://feeny.ai/location/switzerland_