Foster City, CA jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Foster City

• Hardware Software Integration EngineerManpower
• Program ManagerManpower
• Senior Scientist, Drug MetabolismGilead Sciences
• Director, Business Strategy & Operations, Office of the General CounselGilead Sciences
• Associate Director, Medical InformationGilead Sciences
• Principal Scientist, External Quality Analytical OversightGilead Sciences
• Associate Director, Lab Services and OperationsGilead Sciences
• Finance Manager, R&D ConsolidationsGilead Sciences
• Manager, Corporate DevelopmentGilead Sciences
• Tax Manager - Alternative Investment FundsAndersen Group

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Employers hiring most in Foster City

1. Gilead Sciences198 open roles
2. Zoox154 open roles
3. Gilead26 open roles
4. Replit17 open roles
5. Zuora13 open roles
6. Alten Technology USA9 open roles
7. Conviva7 open roles
8. Manpower6 open roles
9. IEQ Capital4 open roles
10. Andersen Group2 open roles

Largest employers headquartered in Foster City

• Gilead Sciences, Inc.about 17,000 employees (2026)

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

Foster City layoffs

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

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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 Foster 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 Foster 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 Foster 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

• 3.9%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  4.1% the month before

• 410,701

  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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