Marlborough, MA jobs, layoffs and employers

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- Senior Product/Program Manager (Hybrid)Raytheon
- Administrative AssistantSumitomo Pharma
- Senior Director, FinanceHologic
- Director, Service Commercial DevelopmentHologic
- Principal Software Algorithm Engineer - Digital Cytology AIHologic
- Software AI Engineer 4Hologic
- Lead Incident Response AnalystHologic
- Quality Specialist 3Hologic
- Generator Systems Principal Electrical EngineerRTX
- Senior Logistics Engineer Technical Data & Supportability OnsiteRTX
Employers hiring most in Marlborough
- RTX46 open roles
- Danaher27 open roles
- IPG Photonics22 open roles
- TJX Companies16 open roles
- Qnity Electronics10 open roles
- Hologic7 open roles
- Raytheon7 open roles
- Sumitomo Pharma7 open roles
- Boston Scientific6 open roles
- Quest Diagnostics6 open roles
Largest employers headquartered in Marlborough
- Boston Scientific20,001–100,000 employees
Employee counts with a year are published figures (Wikidata). Other sizes are estimates from our company directory, not payroll counts.
Marlborough layoffs
No layoff notices naming Marlborough 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.
Where Marlborough ranks
Where Marlborough placed in our monthly rankings, month by month. Each month stays online at its own address.
November 2026
- #5Best cities for software and engineering jobs in New England95 openings · of 24
- #8Best cities for mid-career professionals in New England52% · of 28
- #9Best cities for junior jobs in Massachusetts22% · of 20
- #12Best cities for software and engineering jobs in the Northeast95 openings · of 52
- #15Cities with the most hybrid jobs in New England10% · of 27
- #17Best cities for junior jobs in New England22% · of 28
Middlesex County outlook: Steady
Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.
- Private-sector jobs down 2.8% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 2.8% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.8%, down 0.3 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+8,939 jobs), management of companies (+5,973 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: professional & technical (−18,366 jobs), admin & staffing (−7,990 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Marlborough. Each link goes to the publisher.
- Iconic Cambridge dive bar not reopening after closing over severe water damageMassLive · Nov 6, 2026
- Cambridge Common, Café Barada will closeCambridge Day · Nov 1, 2026
- Former Wachusett Potato Chip factory in Fitchburg to close in DecemberWorcester Telegram on MSN · Oct 28, 2026
- Fitchburg's Former Wachusett Chip Plant Closing, 62 Jobs Lost by DecemberHoodline · Oct 28, 2026
- Kempner hosts Mass AI Hub grant award celebrationHarvard Gazette · Oct 27, 2026
- Lowell data center splits a Massachusetts mill townYahoo · Oct 26, 2026
- Cambridge to lay off 60 workersSoutheast Iowa Union · Oct 19, 2026
- Fairfield’s Cambridge Investment Research Notifies State of Layoffs, Company Cites Organizational RestructuringOttumwa Radio · Oct 16, 2026
Learn and get funded in Marlborough
- 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 Marlborough. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
Laid off in Massachusetts? How to file for unemployment in Massachusetts (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- MassHire Greater Lowell Workforce Board
Towns: Billerica, Chelmsford, Dracut, Dunstable, Lowell, Tewksbury, Tyngsborough, Westford
- MassHire North Central Workforce Board
Towns: Ashburnham, Ashby, Ayer, Barre, Berlin, Bolton, Clinton, Fitchburg, Gardner, Groton, Harvard, Hubbardston, Lancaster, Leominster, Lunenburg, Pepperell, Princeton, Shirley, Sterling, Templeton, Townsend, Westminster, Winchendon
- Metro North Regional Employment Board
Towns: Arlington, Belmont, Burlington, Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Malden, Medford, Melrose, North Reading, Reading, Revere, Somerville, Stoneham, Wakefield, Watertown, Wilmington, Winchester, Winthrop, Woburn
- Metro South/West Workforce Board, Inc.
Towns: Acton, Ashland, Bedford, Bellingham, Boxborough, Brookline, Canton, Carlisle, Concord, Dedham, Dover, Foxborough, Framingham, Franklin, Holliston, Hopkinton, Hudson, Lexington, Lincoln, Littleton, Marlborough, Maynard, Medfield, Medway, Millis, Natick, Needham, Newton, Norfolk, Norwood, Plainville, Sharon, Sherborn, Southborough, Stow, Sudbury, Walpole, Waltham, Wayland, Wellesley, Weston, Westwood, Wrentham
Middlesex County economy
3.8%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.1% the month before
932,913
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
1,622,896
people in Middlesex County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$126,779
median household income
Source: Census ACS
61%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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See your options after a layoffSources: Layoff notices from Massachusetts’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. Massachusetts unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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