Texas
Explore tech, startup, and AI jobs in Texas. Browse open roles from fast-growing companies hiring right now, filter by role, and see the cities, companies, and events that make Texas a place to build a career in tech.
Open Positions5,876 jobs in Texas
Where Texas’s tech talent studies
UT Austin anchors the state’s tech talent, with Rice in Houston and Texas A&M feeding engineering teams across the triangle. Michael Dell built Dell out of a UT dorm room, and the university’s scale keeps a steady flow of graduates into Austin’s startups.
UT Austin
- Michael Dell
- Gary Kelly
- Rex Tillerson
Rice University
- Howard Hughes
- Robert Curl
- Alberto Gonzales
Texas A&M
- Rick Perry
- Lyle Lovett
- Robert Gates
Unicorn startups in Texas
Texas unicorns skew toward hard tech and industry — space launch at Firefly, 3D-printed housing at ICON, and skilled-labor and fintech marketplaces out of Austin. The list is smaller than California’s but growing fast as companies relocate for the tax and cost advantages.
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What’s happening in Texas
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Tech jobs in Texas: common questions
How many tech jobs are open in Texas right now?
Feeny is tracking about 5,876 open tech, startup, and AI roles across Texas, from 780 companies hiring right now. The state has pulled in talent and companies fast over the last few years, helped by no state income tax and a lower cost of living than the coasts. The count refreshes as boards update, so it tracks live demand rather than a fixed list.
Which Texas cities have the most tech jobs?
Austin is the center of gravity and takes the largest share, with a startup scene that has matured well beyond the SXSW cliche. Dallas brings enterprise software and a strong corporate base, Houston leans into energy tech and the industrial side, and San Antonio has a growing cybersecurity cluster. Across 11 Texas cities on Feeny, and even out toward Starbase on the coast, the roles spread wider than most people expect.
What companies are hiring for tech roles in Texas?
The hiring reflects the state's split personality. Austin carries the venture-backed startups and the tech companies that relocated from California, Houston's roles lean toward energy and the software rebuilding that industry, and Dallas hires heavily across enterprise IT and finance. Tesla and SpaceX put a hard-tech stamp on the state too, so the mix runs from consumer software to rockets and grid infrastructure.
What kinds of tech roles are common in Texas?
Texas is broader than a pure software market. Austin looks the most like a coastal tech hub, with product, engineering, and startup roles, but Houston pulls in people who can apply software to energy and heavy industry, and the enterprise base in Dallas hires a lot of infrastructure, data, and platform engineers. If you want to work on physical-world problems as much as pure apps, the state has more of that than most.
What is it like to work in tech in Texas?
The pitch is straightforward: no state income tax, housing you can actually afford, and a scene that has grown up enough to have real depth. It is more spread out than the Bay Area or New York, so the culture is less one dense network and more a set of distinct city scenes, with Austin the most startup-flavored of them. For people priced out of the coasts who still want serious tech work, Texas has become the obvious answer.
Tech & AI Jobs in the South
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Looking elsewhere? Tech hubs across the country
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Where most of the industry actually gets built.
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Money, media, and a fast-rising enterprise-AI scene.
New York, New York City, Brooklyn and 3 other cities are hiring.
Boston turns lab research into companies.
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Cloud country. Amazon, Microsoft, and everyone downstream.
Chicago trades, ships, and builds enterprise software.
Aerospace up top, a Denver and Boulder startup spine below.
Denver, Colorado Springs, Boulder and 2 other cities are hiring.
Chip fabs, self-driving cars, and desert fintech.
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Three cities, and a giant Intel fab on the way.
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