Silicon Valley has long been the place to go to join a scrappy start-up or major company investing in emerging technologies that re-imagine the way we live our lives. But that's not to say that a move out West is the only way to land a job at a great tech company.
For Hired's 2019 Global Brand Health Report, the careers site surveyed more than 3,800 tech workers from its platform to find out which companies stood out as the best employers. Broken down by 11 major U.S. markets, workers were asked to identify which tech company in their hometown they'd want to work for most.
Employers who received top marks range in focus from robotics to radio to food delivery, a clear sign that tech work is taking hold and reshaping industries of all sorts.
Here are the local leaders tech workers want to work for most, plus what types of jobs (within the tech space and beyond) each is hiring for.
Indeed
Headquarters: Austin, Texas
Job openings: director of global job seeker success, data engineer, senior UX developer
iRobot
Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts
Job openings: C# automation engineer, demand planning manager, senior manager of accounting operations
Grubhub
Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois
Job openings: market researcher, senior front-end engineer, enterprise business analyst
Toyota North America
Headquarters: Dallas, Texas
Job openings: automotive telematics engineer, driver management administrator, strategic innovation national manager
Ibotta
Headquarters: Denver, Colorado
Job openings: Salesforce developer, Android engineer, decision scientist
SpaceX
Headquarters: Los Angeles, California
Job openings: electromagnetic environmental effects engineer, orbital tube welder, technical writer
Vimeo
Headquarters: New York City, New York
Job openings: application security engineer, video transcoding engineer, senior brand designer
Qualcomm
Headquarters: San Diego, California
Job openings: system test engineer, digital hardware engineer, sales forecast analyst
Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Job openings: software engineer, technical program manager, media operations manager
Microsoft
Headquarters: Seattle, Washington
Job openings: principal solution manager, account technology strategist, strategy and planning director
NPR
Headquarters: Washington, D.C.
Job openings: junior developer, director of station digital solutions, sponsorship visual designer
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