Redwood City, CA jobs, layoffs and employers

503 open professional jobs in Redwood City. Redwood City is in San Mateo County.

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Employers hiring most in Redwood City

REVOLUTION Medicines46 open roles
Corcept Therapeutics41 open roles
SB Energy37 open roles
Box36 open roles
C3 AI36 open roles
Revolution Medicines29 open roles
Oracle16 open roles
Sunday14 open roles
Dyna Robotics12 open roles
BKF Engineers11 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 layoff notices naming Redwood 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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Where Redwood City ranks

Where Redwood City placed in our monthly rankings, month by month. Each month stays online at its own address.

November 2026

#2Best cities for director and executive jobs in the West Coast32% · of 71
#3Cities with the most hybrid jobs28% · of 100
#3Cities with the most hybrid jobs in the West Coast28% · of 66
#8Best all-round cities for remote workers in the West Coast68 / 100 · of 39
#9Cities that post pay most often44% · of 100
#10Best cities for entry-level jobs that want AI skills in the West Coast17% · of 54

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
San Mateo; Cities: Cupertino, Milpitas, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale

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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Sources: Layoff notices from California’s published record; job counts from our live job board, taken from employers’ own career sites; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers; Census Bureau and BLS for county figures. California unemployment benefits and severance rules.

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