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What type of software engineering jobs are available in that area?

tschellenbach 8y ago
Tons, salaries are growing quickly as well. Comparable to NYC and higher than almost anywhere in the US. Just not at the SF levels yet.
crikli 8y ago
Pretty much anything you can imagine from front-end web to embedded circuits. Thing to keep in mind with Boulder is that it suffers from the same building restriction effects as SF, combined with explosive population growth, so you're going to pay out the nose for every square foot of living space. As long as you build that fact into your salary negotations Boulder is going to be awesome with a quality of life eons better than the coasts IMO. I live in Colorado Springs for family reasons but would happily live in Boulder if things were a bit different.
- JustSomeNobody 8y ago
  Good to know. I literally do everything from HW comms to web UI to push all that data to the cloud. HW comms and protocols are where I'm best. Happy where I'm at but always looking just in case. Been to Colorado Springs. It is a nice area.
  - daguu 8y ago
    Qualcomm has about 300 people in north Boulder.
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crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Lots of web stuff, some big security players, a lot of government and academic research (NOAA/NIST/CU etc) data sciencey type jobs too.
sigstoat 8y ago
if you're all excited about the fiber, then better question is what jobs are available that pay enough to live inside the city limits? property isn't as expensive as SF, but the pay isn't SF either. a sibling comment mentions all the university/government positions, but starting salaries there don't pay to live in boulder. of all my fulltime coworkers at the university, i was the only one with a boulder address, and i still wasn't inside the city. (the students were usually inside the city, since they were paying for it with loans, and living in shithole apartments.) Google, Amazon and Uber recruiters in the area are all pestering me. Twitter, Intel, Cray and nVidia are here. Microsoft seems to come and go? Lockheed, Ball, Oracle, NetApp, Workday, Workiva, and The Trade Desk always have job openings.

Tons, salaries are growing quickly as well. Comparable to NYC and higher than almost anywhere in the US. Just not at the SF levels yet.

crikli 8y ago

Pretty much anything you can imagine from front-end web to embedded circuits. Thing to keep in mind with Boulder is that it suffers from the same building restriction effects as SF, combined with explosive population growth, so you're going to pay out the nose for every square foot of living space. As long as you build that fact into your salary negotations Boulder is going to be awesome with a quality of life eons better than the coasts IMO. I live in Colorado Springs for family reasons but would happily live in Boulder if things were a bit different.

JustSomeNobody 8y ago
Good to know. I literally do everything from HW comms to web UI to push all that data to the cloud. HW comms and protocols are where I'm best. Happy where I'm at but always looking just in case. Been to Colorado Springs. It is a nice area.
- daguu 8y ago
  Qualcomm has about 300 people in north Boulder.

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crunchlibrarian 8y ago

Lots of web stuff, some big security players, a lot of government and academic research (NOAA/NIST/CU etc) data sciencey type jobs too.

sigstoat 8y ago

if you're all excited about the fiber, then better question is what jobs are available that pay enough to live inside the city limits? property isn't as expensive as SF, but the pay isn't SF either. a sibling comment mentions all the university/government positions, but starting salaries there don't pay to live in boulder. of all my fulltime coworkers at the university, i was the only one with a boulder address, and i still wasn't inside the city. (the students were usually inside the city, since they were paying for it with loans, and living in shithole apartments.) Google, Amazon and Uber recruiters in the area are all pestering me. Twitter, Intel, Cray and nVidia are here. Microsoft seems to come and go? Lockheed, Ball, Oracle, NetApp, Workday, Workiva, and The Trade Desk always have job openings.