--- title: 'Tech & AI jobs in Virginia' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/location/virginia' type: 'location' --- # Tech & AI jobs in Virginia > Northern Virginia's tech economy is wired into Washington, DC, and it shows: defense, cybersecurity, and government software dominate. Accenture Federal, Appian, and Two Six Technologies hire across the DC suburbs, and the region's data-center corridor is one of the densest on earth. The roles skew toward cleared work, enterprise SaaS, and national-security tech. - **Open roles:** 1806 - **Hiring companies:** 220 - **Region type:** state - **Timezone:** America/New_York - **Population:** 8,720,000 - **Cost of living:** 3% above the US average — driven by the Northern Virginia / DC suburbs. - **Climate:** Humid subtropical — hot, humid summers and mild winters. Cooler in the western mountains, milder near the coast. - **Page:** https://feeny.ai/location/virginia ## Cities in Virginia - [Arlington](https://feeny.ai/location/virginia/arlington) — 413 jobs - [Mclean](https://feeny.ai/location/virginia/mclean) — 205 jobs - [Reston](https://feeny.ai/location/virginia/reston) — 157 jobs - [Chantilly](https://feeny.ai/location/virginia/chantilly) — 124 jobs - [Springfield](https://feeny.ai/location/virginia/springfield) — 104 jobs - [Herndon](https://feeny.ai/location/virginia/herndon) — 91 jobs - [Tysons](https://feeny.ai/location/virginia/tysons) — 88 jobs - [Richmond](https://feeny.ai/location/virginia/richmond) — 87 jobs - [Vienna](https://feeny.ai/location/virginia/vienna) — 77 jobs - [Sterling](https://feeny.ai/location/virginia/sterling) — 76 jobs ## Top companies hiring in Virginia - [Accenture Federal Services](https://feeny.ai/companies/accenture-federal-services) — 222 open roles - [Heven AeroTech](https://feeny.ai/companies/heven-aerotech) — 32 open roles - [GRVTY](https://feeny.ai/companies/grvty) — 93 open roles - [Range](https://feeny.ai/companies/range) — 40 open roles - [Lynk](https://feeny.ai/companies/lynk) — 25 open roles - [Two Six Technologies](https://feeny.ai/companies/two-six-technologies) — 30 open roles - [B&S Site Development](https://feeny.ai/companies/b-s-site-development) — 24 open roles - [VetEvolve](https://feeny.ai/companies/vetevolve) — 64 open roles - [CaseGuard](https://feeny.ai/companies/caseguard) — 13 open roles - [Alarm.com](https://feeny.ai/companies/alarm-com) — 44 open roles - [Kymber Consulting Group](https://feeny.ai/companies/kymber-consulting-group) — 15 open roles - [Verisign](https://feeny.ai/companies/verisign) — 17 open roles ## Top Universities **Where Virginia's tech talent studies** Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia anchor the talent supply, with UVA alone producing Reddit's founders and VMware's Mendel Rosenblum. George Mason sits in the middle of the DC tech corridor and feeds the region's contractor and cybersecurity firms directly. - **Virginia Tech** (Blacksburg, VA · 31,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Regina E. Dugan, Jim Buckmaster, Joseph DeSimone, Dave Calhoun, George Nolen - **University of Virginia** (Charlottesville, VA · 18,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Alexis Ohanian, Steve Huffman, Mendel Rosenblum, Mark B. Templeton, Kevin Systrom - **George Mason University** (Fairfax, VA · 28,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Anousheh Ansari, Martin Andrew Taylor, Chris DiBona, Ernst Volgenau, Amir Ansari - **William & Mary** (Williamsburg, VA · 7,100 undergrads) — notable alumni: Todd Boehly, Beth Comstock, Ted Decker, Todd Howard, Raymond A. Mason - **Virginia Commonwealth University** (Richmond, VA · 21,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Christopher Poole, Richard M. Bracken, Kenneth Sullivan, Jason Harris, Jerry Dipoto - **James Madison University** (Harrisonburg, VA · 21,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Jennifer Morgan, Kathy J. Warden, Christina Tosi, John-Paul Lee, Charles W. Ergen - **Old Dominion University** (Norfolk, VA · 18,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Elizabeth Ashburn Duke, L. Glenn Perry, Michael Bloomfield, Tahani Amer, Enid Montague - **University of Richmond** (Richmond, VA · 3,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Michael Walrath, Josh Abramson, Greg Morrisett, Leland D. Melvin, Leslie M. Baker, Jr. ## Top Unicorns **Unicorn startups in Virginia** Virginia's unicorns are a defense-and-security story: identity verification at ID.me, threat detection at Expel, supply-chain risk at Interos and Govini, and cyber-warfare tooling at Twenty. It's a smaller bench than the coasts, built almost entirely on selling to the government and the enterprise. - **[ID.me](https://feeny.ai/companies/id-me-university-recruiting)** — $2B · Digital identity verification & secure sign-on for government and commerce - **Seekr** — $1.2B · Enterprise & government generative-AI platform for explainable models - **Govini** — $1.25B · AI data & analytics for defense acquisition and supply chains - **[Expel](https://feeny.ai/companies/expel)** — $1B · Managed detection & response and 24/7 security operations - **Interos** — $1B · AI supply-chain risk monitoring for enterprise and government - **[Twenty](https://feeny.ai/companies/twenty)** — $1B · AI-enabled offensive cyber systems for defense and intelligence ## FAQ **Tech jobs in Virginia: common questions** ### How many tech jobs are open in Virginia right now? Feeny is tracking about 1,806 open tech roles in Virginia from 220 companies hiring. The listings refresh from employer career pages, so the count reflects live openings. A large share of them sit in Northern Virginia, where the tech economy is wired directly into Washington, DC. ### Which Virginia cities have the most tech jobs? Northern Virginia carries the state, and the hiring spreads across the DC suburbs: Arlington, McLean, Reston, Tysons, Herndon, Chantilly, and Springfield. This belt holds one of the densest data-center corridors on earth, which shapes the whole region. Across the 10 Virginia cities we index, these NoVa suburbs account for most of the open tech roles. ### What companies are hiring for tech roles in Virginia? Accenture Federal, Appian, and Two Six Technologies hire across the DC suburbs, and they reflect what the region does: government software, enterprise platforms, and national-security tech. Many roles here favor or require a security clearance, which is a real differentiator, since a cleared engineer has access to work most candidates cannot touch. If you already hold a clearance, Northern Virginia is one of the best markets in the country for it. ### What kinds of tech roles are common in Virginia? The work skews toward defense, cybersecurity, and government software, with a heavy layer of cleared roles tied to federal contracts. Enterprise SaaS fills out much of the rest, and the data-center corridor adds cloud and infrastructure work. National-security tech is the region's specialty, so if that world interests you, few places have more of it in one metro. ### What is it like to work in tech in Virginia? Cost of living in the NoVa and DC suburbs runs about 3 percent above the national average, so the salaries are strong but housing eats into them. The clearance reality cuts both ways: it locks you out of some roles until you get sponsored, but once cleared it opens a stable, well-paid lane most engineers never see. If you want government and defense tech with real job security, this region is built for it. --- _Source: https://feeny.ai/location/virginia_