Redwood City, CA jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Redwood City

• Vice President, Revenue OperationsC3 IoT
• Director, GLP Quality AssuranceRevolution Medicines
• Director, US GI Market ResearchRevolution Medicines
• Senior Director, Product Management - C3 AI Defense and IntelligenceC3 IoT
• Associate Director, MarketingRevolution Medicines
• Senior/Associate Staff Systems Storage Engineer, QDIQiagen
• Senior Research Associate DMPK (P3553)Planet Pharma
• Senior Research Associate, Cancer Immunology (P3523)Planet Pharma
• Bioaerosol Genomics Research AssociatePilgrim
• Business Systems Analyst, Payroll SystemsChan Zuckerberg Initiative

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Employers hiring most in Redwood City

1. Corcept Therapeutics42 open roles
2. SB Energy40 open roles
3. C3 AI39 open roles
4. Box24 open roles
5. Dyna Robotics12 open roles
6. Sunday12 open roles
7. Ambient.ai11 open roles
8. BKF Engineers11 open roles
9. Oracle10 open roles
10. Stanford University10 open roles

Largest employers headquartered in Redwood City

• Electronic Artsabout 11,000 employees (2021)
• Equinix5,001–20,000 employees
• Guardant Health1,001–5,000 employees

Employee counts with a year are published figures (Wikidata). Other sizes are estimates from our company directory, not payroll counts.

Redwood City layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Redwood City in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.

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Where Redwood City ranks

• #2 Best cities for director and executive jobs in the West Coast 29%
• #8 Best cities for director and executive jobs 29%
• #9 Cities that post pay most often 43%
• #9 Best cities for AI-skill jobs in the West Coast 26%
• #10 Best cities for AI-skill jobs 26%
• #13 Best cities for pay after cost of living in California $162k

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San Mateo County outlook: Cooling

Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.

• Private-sector jobs down 3.0% from 2022 to 2025
• Population down 2.5% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 3.9%, down 0.2 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+6,866 jobs), hotels & food (+3,546 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: information (−18,948 jobs), manufacturing (−4,940 jobs)

Local job-market news

Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Redwood City. Each link goes to the publisher.

• Aria Networks plans to triple workforce with Sunnyvale moveThe Business Journals · Oct 16, 2026

Learn and get funded in Redwood City

• Which AI skills each kind of job asks for, with the pay premium.
• Your local workforce board and American Job Centers: training vouchers and re-employment help.
• Grants and funding for job seekers, ranked for your state and situation.
• Unemployment benefits by state, if you are between jobs.

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Redwood City. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

Laid off in California? How to file for unemployment in California (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).

• NOVA Workforce Development Board

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San Mateo County economy

• 4.0%

  unemployment, Aug 2026

  4.3% the month before

• 408,396

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 745,100

  people in San Mateo County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $156,000

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 55%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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