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title: 'Tech & AI jobs in Washington'
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# Tech & AI jobs in Washington

> Washington's tech economy grew up around Microsoft and Amazon, and the startups here still cluster in enterprise software and cloud. Seattle and Bellevue do most of the hiring, with SpaceX's Redmond satellite office, Okta, Databricks, and Snowflake all posting roles alongside homegrown companies like Outreach and Highspot. There's also a growing hard-tech corner in space and fusion.

- **Open roles:** 2197
- **Hiring companies:** 298
- **Region type:** state
- **Timezone:** America/Los_Angeles
- **Population:** 7,810,000
- **Cost of living:** 16% above the US average — driven by Seattle-area housing.
- **Climate:** Mild, wet marine climate west of the Cascades — cool, rainy winters and dry, temperate summers. Much drier and more extreme east of the mountains.
- **Page:** https://feeny.ai/location/washington

## Cities in Washington

- [Seattle](https://feeny.ai/location/washington/seattle) — 1161 jobs
- [Bellevue](https://feeny.ai/location/washington/bellevue) — 379 jobs
- [Redmond](https://feeny.ai/location/washington/redmond) — 366 jobs
- [Everett](https://feeny.ai/location/washington/everett) — 116 jobs
- [Woodinville](https://feeny.ai/location/washington/woodinville) — 72 jobs
- [Bothell](https://feeny.ai/location/washington/bothell) — 72 jobs

## Top companies hiring in Washington

- [Helion](https://feeny.ai/companies/helion) — 109 open roles
- [Stoke Space ](https://feeny.ai/companies/stoke-space) — 40 open roles
- [The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence](https://feeny.ai/companies/the-allen-institute-for-artificial-intelligence) — 22 open roles
- [Read AI, Inc.](https://feeny.ai/companies/read-ai-inc) — 17 open roles
- [Endurance Energy](https://feeny.ai/companies/endurance-energy) — 17 open roles
- [PitchBook Data](https://feeny.ai/companies/pitchbook-data) — 37 open roles
- [AI Foundry](https://feeny.ai/companies/ai-foundry) — 16 open roles
- [SpaceX](https://feeny.ai/companies/spacex) — 373 open roles
- [Gravitics, Inc](https://feeny.ai/companies/gravitics-inc) — 15 open roles
- [Echodyne Corp](https://feeny.ai/companies/echodyne-corp) — 20 open roles
- [Carbon Robotics](https://feeny.ai/companies/carbon-robotics) — 18 open roles
- [Seattle Sounders FC & Seattle Reign FC](https://feeny.ai/companies/seattle-sounders-fc-seattle-reign-fc) — 13 open roles

## Top Universities

**Where Washington's tech talent studies**

The University of Washington is the engine, sending engineers into Amazon, Microsoft, and the startups they spun off (MySpace and Costco both trace founders here). Washington State adds Paul Allen and the Fluke lineage, while Seattle University keeps a steady line into the local software scene.

- **University of Washington** (Seattle, WA · 32,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Jeffrey Brotman, Chris DeWolfe, Peter Adkison, John Fluke, Orin C. Smith
- **Washington State University** (Pullman, WA · 21,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Paul Allen, Edmund Schweitzer, Jamie Kern Lima, John Abelson, Weldon Gibson
- **Seattle University** (Seattle, WA · 4,100 undergrads) — notable alumni: Julie Larson-Green, Steve McConnell, Gary Brinson, Jerry Grundhofer, Calvin Tang
- **Western Washington University** (Bellingham, WA · 14,000 undergrads) — notable alumni: Robert Angel, Hoby Darling, Dan Erickson, TJ Martin, Hiro Yamamoto
- **Central Washington University** (Ellensburg, WA · 7,800 undergrads) — notable alumni: Christine M. Day, Raymond Conner, Stephen L. Nelson, Daniel D. McCracken, Shelley Powers
- **University of Puget Sound** (Tacoma, WA · 1,600 undergrads) — notable alumni: Nicolas Cary, Alex Israel, Erik Voorhees, Chris Pirih, John W. Stanton

## Top Unicorns

**Unicorn startups in Washington**

The unicorns split between enterprise SaaS and frontier tech: sales and revenue tooling at Outreach and Highspot, data and durability at Temporal and Qumulo, and a hard-tech cluster in Helion's fusion reactor and Stoke Space's reusable rockets. It's a Microsoft-and-Amazon alumni economy, several rungs down.

- **[Helion Energy](https://feeny.ai/companies/helion)** — $16B · Fusion energy for electricity generation
- **Icertis** — $5B · AI-powered contract lifecycle management
- **[Temporal](https://feeny.ai/companies/temporal-technologies)** — $5B · Durable execution platform for distributed workflows
- **Outreach** — $4.4B · AI-driven sales execution platform
- **Highspot** — $4B · Sales enablement content, training & coaching
- **Rec Room** — $4B · Social platform for user-generated games
- **[Truveta](https://feeny.ai/companies/truveta)** — $3B · Privacy-safe health data platform for research
- **Rad Power Bikes** — $2B · Direct-to-consumer electric bikes
- **[Stoke Space](https://feeny.ai/companies/stoke-space)** — $1.95B · Fully reusable rockets for low-cost launch
- **[Qumulo](https://feeny.ai/companies/qumulo)** — $1.2B · Enterprise file data platform at petabyte scale
- **[Karat](https://feeny.ai/companies/karat)** — $1.1B · Technical interviewing platform for engineers
- **[Amperity](https://feeny.ai/companies/amperity)** — $1B · AI-powered customer data platform

## Events

**What's happening in Washington**

- [The Living Room: An Open Mic Experience](https://luma.com/s6ijczmo) — 2026-08-08 · Seattle
- [Seattle Code & Coffee @ Internet.Dev!](https://luma.com/isibmstu) — 2026-08-08 · Seattle
- [Pilates and Pottery](https://luma.com/brhc1582) — 2026-08-09 · Seattle
- [Vision Board Event 🎀 By Girlysocialco.](https://luma.com/2t3bbxur) — 2026-08-09 · Seattle
- [Augmented Reality (AR) Walking Tour: Future Arts Way *Pioneer Square*](https://luma.com/0r1ouf7t) — 2026-08-09 · Seattle
- [Games & AI Meetup / Co-hosted by AWS](https://luma.com/db6rmxa6) — 2026-08-12 · Seattle
- [ClawCon Seattle](https://luma.com/clawcon-seattle) — 2026-08-12 · Seattle
- [AI Agents Seattle August 2026](https://luma.com/uxqccmja) — 2026-08-12 · Seattle
- [Building Resilient Systems in the Age of Agentic Development](https://luma.com/antith-5hm8) — 2026-08-14 · Seattle

## FAQ

**Tech jobs in Washington: common questions**

### How many tech jobs are open in Washington right now?

Feeny lists roughly 2,197 open tech roles in Washington from 298 companies hiring. The postings come straight off employer career pages and refresh as roles open and close, so the count stays honest. Most of them sit in the Seattle metro, one of the deepest tech markets in the country.

### Which Washington cities have the most tech jobs?

Seattle and Bellevue do most of the hiring, with Redmond close behind thanks to Microsoft and a SpaceX satellite office. Everett, Renton, Bothell, and Woodinville add more of the metro's spread. Across the 6 Washington cities we index, the Seattle and Eastside belt accounts for the large majority of open tech roles.

### What companies are hiring for tech roles in Washington?

The state grew up around Microsoft and Amazon, and their gravity still shapes the market. Around them, Okta, Databricks, and Snowflake post roles alongside homegrown companies like Outreach and Highspot. SpaceX's Redmond office adds a hard-tech corner in satellites, so the mix runs from cloud software to space hardware.

### What kinds of tech roles are common in Washington?

Enterprise software and cloud dominate, a direct legacy of Microsoft and Amazon anchoring the region. Data infrastructure and platform roles run deep, given who is hiring. A growing hard-tech corner in space and cloud adds engineering work you will not find in most software towns, which gives the market real range.

### What is it like to work in tech in Washington?

The salaries are among the highest anywhere, and there is no state income tax, which is a genuine draw. The offset is cost: Seattle-area housing runs about 16 percent above the national average, so a big paycheck buys less than it looks like on paper. If you want top-tier cloud and enterprise work and can stomach the rent, few markets are deeper.

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