Coverage note

Apple, Salesforce, Waymo, General Motors, Google, and Outlier AI now appear in our Dice pull at full volume. They were under-counted in prior issues due to a scraper filter that excluded their posting URL patterns. WoW comparisons below only include companies present in both Issue #5 and this issue. Treat the new arrivals as additions to your tracking universe, not surges.

Our take

Annapurna's collapse from 58 to 2 is the single sharpest signal in the data. They were reposting the same Sr. SDE role 12 times in the Bay two weeks ago. Now those listings are gone. Either the wall they were hitting got closed by an internal hire or a contract win at a competitor, or they pulled the listings to rework them. Worth a single LinkedIn outreach to confirm before you assume they are still open.

Struggling to fill

JABIL CIRCUIT reposted "DevOps & Software Development Engineer" 12 times this week, after 11 in Issue #3 and 10 in Issue #5. Same role, same metro, four issues running. This is not a normal hiring pattern. Internal recruiting is not closing it and whichever vendor they routed it to has not closed it either. If you place senior DevOps talent in Austin, this is the warmest call on the page.

Indeed coverage adds · Austin

Amazon.com Services LLC · 30 · SCM, AI Transformation, Applied Science
Google · 17 · Data Center Tech, Cloud Learning, Platforms Infra
Maximus · 13 · Front-End Dev TS/SCI ↻5
Amazon Web Services · 9 · AWS Partnerships, GenAI Solutions Architect
Oracle · 7 · Data Center NPI, Software Development
Walmart · 8 · Loss Prevention, Team Supervisor

Maximus reposted the same TS/SCI Senior Front-End Dev role 5 times in Austin and another 5 in the Bay. Cleared roles are notoriously hard to fill, but Maximus is also one of the named buyers in the Cybersecurity spotlight below. Worth a look if you place cleared talent.

Struggling to fill

Vanguard reposted "Platform Architect, Personalized Indexing Technology" 5 times in the Bay this week. Vanguard's Bay Area tech footprint is small, so a senior architect role they cannot close on a referral pipeline is unusual. DGN Technologies also reposted "Software Infrastructure Engineer" 5 times and the listing carries an MSP fingerprint, meaning it sits inside a vendor management system. If you are not on DGN's tier-1 list, that posting is economically invisible even though it is public.

Indeed coverage adds · Bay Area

Amazon.com Services LLC · 31 · SCM, Applied AI
Salesforce · 28 · Forecasting, GTM, Recruiting
Google · 21 · Cloud Learning, Data Center
Maximus · 13 · Front-End Dev TS/SCI ↻5
Snowflake · 12 · PMM, Counsel, Analytics
NVIDIA · 10 · Data Eng, AI Research, VLSI
Palo Alto Networks · 10 · Malware, Security Research, PM
Sigma Computing · 10 · Staff Engineer (FE/BE/Fullstack)

Sigma Computing's 10 postings are all Staff Engineer titles across frontend, backend, and fullstack. That is a small mid-market data company hiring a senior bench all at once, exactly the kind of mid-market window that opens for a week and closes.

Our take

Visa Inc. with 22 cyber roles between the two metros is the highest-volume cyber buyer in our data, and the repost count on their Cybersecurity Engineer role (8x) suggests it is not closing on referrals. General Motors at 14 is the cleaner mid-market open: they have a real cyber function in Austin and the postings span product cyber, threat intel, and IAM. On the competitor side, Motion Recruitment placed 13 cyber roles this week, AaraTech 10. If you sell cyber against either, the door is open on hardware-adjacent cyber (Marvell, AMD) and federal cleared (Leidos, LMI), neither of which are showing up in their book.

Our take

The Mfg / Auto bump is real (GM and Jabil active in both metros). Defense and Healthcare both pulled back roughly 45%, which is unusual. If you specialize in defense placement, this is the week to confirm whether your top accounts have actually slowed or just moved their postings off Dice and Indeed onto their internal portals.

Our take

Discord at 23 in the Bay is the most interesting net-new name. They run a small, mostly internal recruiting function and rarely surface this much volume at once. Sigma Computing's 10 Staff Engineer roles is the same story at a smaller scale. Both are mid-market companies where one BD conversation can land a multi-role engagement.

Our take

The Dignify Solutions and SolutionIT both carry MSP fingerprints on most postings. They are tier-2 or tier-3 vendors riding inside a vendor management system, which means they are competing for the same slots you are if you are also on the list. Enexus, FASTRA, Stellar, and Sun Technologies are cleaner net-new mid-market targets, no VMS gating, 100% contract intent, and predictable skill stacks (SAP, ServiceNow, DevOps).

Our take