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There are many options for those seeking Austin tech jobs.

The Austin area has long been considered a major center for high-tech jobs and companies. This is in part because graduating students from the engineering and computer science programs at The University of Texas at Austin provide a steady source of employees to fuel the city’s technology and defense industries.

One positive for job seekers with a high-tech background - the Austin area offers lower housing costs than many other popular tech areas, such as Silicon Valley. However, Austin is more expensive than many other areas throughout Texas, according to Wikipedia.

Unfortunately, the high concentration of high-tech companies in Austin made the region susceptible to the dot-com bust of the late 1990s. However, the city has maintained a large high-tech company presence, and has even become nicknamed “Silicon Hills.”

Today, some of the largest employers in Austin are in the high-tech industry, including: Dell, Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, 3MApplce Inc., Hewlett-Packard, Google, AMD, Applied Materials, Cirrus Logic, Cisco Systems, eBay/PayPal, Hoover’s, Intel Corporation, National Instruments, Samsung Group, Silicon Laboratories, Sun Microsystems and United Devices.

So what tech jobs should you look for? At the end of last year, The Daily Beast compiled a list of the 10 cutting-edge tech jobs throughout the nation that are currently hiring:

1. Network architect
2. System software designer
3. Data engineer
4. Network administrator
5. Database manager
6. Apps designer
7. Avionics specialist
8. Tech support specialist
9. Technology theorist
10. Computer programmer

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