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caterpillar.com • HQ: Irving, United States • Industrial Machinery • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1925 • NYSE: CAT • Trust A • Hiring 826, 191 new
HQ: Irving, United States • Industrial Machinery • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1925 • NYSE: CAT • Trust A • Hiring 826, 191 new
Caterpillar Inc. is a leading global manufacturer of heavy construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, the company operates a vast international footprint spanning manufacturing facilities, technology hubs, and independent dealerships. Through innovative machinery, digital solutions, and specialized financial services, it supports sustainable infrastructure development and energy production around the world.
salesforce.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • AI Agents • Team Communication & Collaboration • Marketing Automation • Customer Support & Help Desk Software • BI & Dashboard Software • Marketing & Sales AI • CRM Software • 5000+ employees • Est. 1999 • Trust B • Hiring 1448, 122 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States • AI Agents • Team Communication & Collaboration • Marketing Automation • Customer Support & Help Desk Software • BI & Dashboard Software • Marketing & Sales AI • CRM Software • 5000+ employees • Est. 1999 • Trust B • Hiring 1448, 122 new
Salesforce is an American enterprise software company founded in 1999 that pioneered delivering business applications over the internet rather than as installed software. Its Customer 360 platform brings sales, service, marketing, commerce and analytics onto shared customer data, extended by the Slack collaboration suite, the Tableau analytics business and the MuleSoft integration layer. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company has moved its product strategy toward autonomous agents through Agentforce and the Data Cloud, and it remains the largest customer relationship management vendor in the world by revenue share.
$173k – $260k per year • Lead • 4+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
$173k – $260k per year • Lead • 8+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, Palo Alto, Chicago, New York, Washington, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
cccis.com • HQ: Chicago, United States • InsurTech • 501-1000 employees • Est. 1980 • Hiring 33, 6 new
HQ: Chicago, United States • InsurTech • 501-1000 employees • Est. 1980 • Hiring 33, 6 new
CCC Intelligent Solutions supplies software connecting insurers, repair shops and parts suppliers. Its platform handles collision estimating, claims workflow and total loss valuation. Artificial intelligence photo analysis now automates much of the damage appraisal process.
abbvie.com • HQ: North Chicago, United States • Neurology & CNS Therapeutics • Oncology Therapeutics • Immunology & Inflammation Therapeutics • Prescription Drugs • 5000+ employees • Est. 2013 • NYSE: ABBV • Trust B • Hiring 983, 208 new
HQ: North Chicago, United States • Neurology & CNS Therapeutics • Oncology Therapeutics • Immunology & Inflammation Therapeutics • Prescription Drugs • 5000+ employees • Est. 2013 • NYSE: ABBV • Trust B • Hiring 983, 208 new
AbbVie is an American biopharmaceutical company created in 2013 when Abbott Laboratories separated its research-based drug business into a standalone listed company. It was built around the immunology drug Humira, once the highest selling medicine in the world, and has since replaced that revenue with the successor immunology drugs Skyrizi and Rinvoq, an oncology portfolio led by Imbruvica and Venclexta, neuroscience products including Botox Therapeutic and Vraylar, and the aesthetics business acquired with Allergan. Headquartered in North Chicago and listed on the New York Stock Exchange, it is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies by revenue.
grainger.com • HQ: Lake Forest, United States • Wholesale • Maintenance, Repair & Operations (MRO) • Mechanical Components & Fasteners • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1927 • Trust A • Hiring 238, 40 new
HQ: Lake Forest, United States • Wholesale • Maintenance, Repair & Operations (MRO) • Mechanical Components & Fasteners • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1927 • Trust A • Hiring 238, 40 new
Grainger is a broad-line, business-to-business distributor of maintenance, repair and operating (MRO) supplies headquartered in Lake Forest, Illinois, selling safety gear, motors, ladders and janitorial goods online, through sales representatives and at branches. The company, formally W.W. Grainger, was founded in 1927, is publicly listed, operates mainly in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom, and reported 2025 revenue of $17.9 billion from more than 4.5 million customers. It hires warehouse associates and supervisors, branch sales and account managers, customer service staff, software and data engineers and product managers.
homechef.com • HQ: Chicago, United States • Catering & Food Services • Prepared Foods • 201-500 employees • Est. 2013 • Trust A • Hiring 33, 4 new
HQ: Chicago, United States • Catering & Food Services • Prepared Foods • 201-500 employees • Est. 2013 • Trust A • Hiring 33, 4 new
Home Chef is a meal kit and prepared meal company headquartered in Chicago that delivers portioned ingredients and recipes for home cooking and sells its meals in more than 2,100 Kroger grocery stores. Founded in 2013 and owned by Kroger since 2018, it launched Tempo, a line of ready-to-heat meals delivered to the door, in 2023, and runs production and distribution facilities in Atlanta, Bedford, San Bernardino and Baltimore. Most openings are at its plants, for production associates, leads and supervisors, reach truck operators, warehouse and maintenance staff and food safety managers, with analytics engineering, marketing and IT roles in the office.
equinix.com • HQ: Redwood City, United States • Network Interconnect • Data Centers & Colocation • 5000+ employees • Est. 1998 • Trust B • Hiring 237, 23 new
HQ: Redwood City, United States • Network Interconnect • Data Centers & Colocation • 5000+ employees • Est. 1998 • Trust B • Hiring 237, 23 new
Equinix is a digital infrastructure company headquartered in Redwood City, California, operating colocation data centers and interconnection services that let enterprises, cloud providers and network operators connect their infrastructure. Founded in 1998 and listed on Nasdaq, it runs more than 260 data centers in over 70 metro areas worldwide and builds hyperscale facilities through its xScale program. It hires data center customer operations and critical facilities engineers, cabling and maintenance technicians, sales engineers, product architects and compliance analysts, with many roles in Dallas, Toronto and Redwood City.
servicenow.com • HQ: Santa Clara, United States • AI Agents • Customer Support & Help Desk Software • Workflow & Process Automation (RPA, BPM) • IT Service & Asset Management • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2004 • Trust B • Hiring 563, 111 new
HQ: Santa Clara, United States • AI Agents • Customer Support & Help Desk Software • Workflow & Process Automation (RPA, BPM) • IT Service & Asset Management • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2004 • Trust B • Hiring 563, 111 new
ServiceNow is an American enterprise software company founded in 2004 by Fred Luddy and headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It began by replacing clumsy IT ticketing systems with a configurable workflow platform, then extended the same engine across employee, customer, security, risk and supply chain processes, so a single system routes work between people and systems across departments. Listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the company now builds AI agents into every workflow through its Now Assist and AI Platform products, and it counts most of the Fortune 500 among its customers.
wipro.com • HQ: Bengaluru, India • Management Consulting • Systems Integrators • IT Consulting & Digital Transformation • IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1945 • NYSE: WIT • Hiring 1545, 287 new
HQ: Bengaluru, India • Management Consulting • Systems Integrators • IT Consulting & Digital Transformation • IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1945 • NYSE: WIT • Hiring 1545, 287 new
Wipro is an Indian information technology services company that provides application development and maintenance, consulting, cloud, cybersecurity, engineering services and business process outsourcing to corporate clients in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Founded in 1945 as Western India Vegetable Products, a maker of vegetable oil, it moved into computing in the 1980s under Azim Premji and is listed in Mumbai and on the New York Stock Exchange. The company is headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
braze.com • HQ: New York, United States • Email Marketing • Marketing Automation • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2011 • NASDAQ: BRZE • Trust A • Hiring 280, 20 new
HQ: New York, United States • Email Marketing • Marketing Automation • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2011 • NASDAQ: BRZE • Trust A • Hiring 280, 20 new
Braze is an American customer engagement software company founded in 2011 that sends personalised messages across push notifications, in-app messaging, email, text and web based on how users behave inside a product. Its platform ingests behavioural events in real time, segments audiences on that data and orchestrates multi-step campaigns through a visual canvas, which suits consumer applications in media, retail, financial services and travel where timing matters more than list management. Headquartered in New York and listed on Nasdaq, it competes with the marketing clouds of the large enterprise software vendors.
siemens.com • HQ: Munich, Germany • Rail Transport • Medical Imaging Systems • Building Automation & Controls • Manufacturing & Industrial Software • CAD, PLM & BIM Software • Industrial Automation • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1847 • Trust A • Hiring 1521, 482 new
HQ: Munich, Germany • Rail Transport • Medical Imaging Systems • Building Automation & Controls • Manufacturing & Industrial Software • CAD, PLM & BIM Software • Industrial Automation • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1847 • Trust A • Hiring 1521, 482 new
Siemens is a German technology conglomerate founded in Berlin in 1847 by Werner von Siemens around a telegraph that indicated letters rather than Morse code. After a decade of divestments it now concentrates on industry, infrastructure, transport and healthcare, supplying factory automation and control systems, building and grid technology, trains and signalling, and the Teamcenter and NX design software acquired through a long run of software purchases. The Siemens Xcelerator platform ties hardware to software and digital twins, and the group retains a majority stake in the separately listed medical imaging company Siemens Healthineers.
expediagroup.com • HQ: Seattle, United States • Vacation Rentals • Travel Agencies • Travel Technology • Est. 1996 • NASDAQ: EXPE • Trust A • Hiring 148, 29 new
HQ: Seattle, United States • Vacation Rentals • Travel Agencies • Travel Technology • Est. 1996 • NASDAQ: EXPE • Trust A • Hiring 148, 29 new
Expedia Group is an American travel technology company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, that runs consumer brands such as Expedia and Vrbo alongside a B2B travel network and a travel advertising business. It began in 1996 as a division of Microsoft, went public in 1999, was spun off from IAC in 2005, and its portfolio also includes Hotwire, Orbitz, Travelocity, Wotif and Trivago. Current openings cover software development and machine learning engineers and scientists, product managers, data engineers, account managers for hotel partners, and analysts in Seattle, London, Austin and Chicago.
cisco.com • HQ: San Jose, United States • Endpoint Security • Observability & APM • Unified Communications • Network Security • Network Equipment • 5000+ employees • Est. 1984 • NASDAQ: CSCO • Trust A • Hiring 1179, 134 new
HQ: San Jose, United States • Endpoint Security • Observability & APM • Unified Communications • Network Security • Network Equipment • 5000+ employees • Est. 1984 • NASDAQ: CSCO • Trust A • Hiring 1179, 134 new
Cisco Systems is an American networking company founded in 1984 by Stanford computer scientists Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner, and headquartered in San Jose, California. It is the largest supplier of enterprise networking equipment in the world, building the routers, switches, wireless access points and optical systems that carry traffic across corporate networks, service providers and data centres, together with the software and silicon that run them. The company has diversified heavily into security, observability through Splunk, collaboration with Webex, and AI infrastructure networking, and now earns a growing share of revenue from software subscriptions rather than hardware sales.
talan.com • HQ: Paris, France • AI Consulting & Integration • Management Consulting • IT Consulting & Digital Transformation • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2002 • IT services • Trust B • Hiring 357, 28 new
HQ: Paris, France • AI Consulting & Integration • Management Consulting • IT Consulting & Digital Transformation • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2002 • IT services • Trust B • Hiring 357, 28 new
Talan is a French technology and management consultancy founded in 2002 that advises large organisations on data, cloud, artificial intelligence and business transformation. It works mainly with banks, insurers, public sector bodies, energy companies and industrial groups, combining strategy consulting with hands-on engineering through practices covering data platforms, distributed ledger technology, enterprise applications and cybersecurity. Headquartered in Paris, the firm has grown quickly through acquisitions across Europe, North America and the Middle East and now employs several thousand consultants.
northerntrust.com • HQ: Chicago, United States • Asset Management & Funds • Custody & Fund Administration • Wealth Management & Financial Advisors • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1889 • NASDAQ: NTRS • Trust B • Hiring 551, 70 new
HQ: Chicago, United States • Asset Management & Funds • Custody & Fund Administration • Wealth Management & Financial Advisors • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1889 • NASDAQ: NTRS • Trust B • Hiring 551, 70 new
Northern Trust is a financial services company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, providing wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking to wealthy individuals and families, family offices, corporations, pension funds and other institutions. Founded in 1889 by Byron Smith and listed on Nasdaq, it manages about 1.8 trillion dollars in assets, employs more than 23,000 people, and has large operating centers in Pune, Bengaluru, Limerick, Tempe and Manila. Openings cover fund accounting and investor services analysts, client service and relationship managers, wealth strategists and financial advisors, and cybersecurity and software engineers.
deere.com • HQ: Moline, United States • Industrial Machinery • Farm Machinery • 5000+ employees • Est. 1837 • Trust B • Hiring 286, 23 new
HQ: Moline, United States • Industrial Machinery • Farm Machinery • 5000+ employees • Est. 1837 • Trust B • Hiring 286, 23 new
John Deere, the brand of Deere & Company, is a manufacturer of agricultural, construction, forestry and turf machinery, precision agriculture technology and related financing, headquartered in Moline, Illinois. Founded in 1837 by blacksmith John Deere and listed on the New York Stock Exchange, it runs factories and technology centers in the United States, Germany, France, Brazil, Poland, India and other countries and sells through a worldwide dealer network. It hires software and product engineers, production supervisors, supply management and marketing staff, territory customer experience managers and many students and interns across sites such as Moline, Waterloo, Indaiatuba and Mannheim.
zerohash.com • HQ: Chicago, United States • Crypto Payments • Blockchain Infrastructure • Cryptocurrencies • 201-500 employees • Est. 2017 • Startup • Hiring 29, 1 new
HQ: Chicago, United States • Crypto Payments • Blockchain Infrastructure • Cryptocurrencies • 201-500 employees • Est. 2017 • Startup • Hiring 29, 1 new
Zero Hash is a business-to-business settlement and infrastructure company founded in 2017 and headquartered in Chicago. It provides licensed crypto and stablecoin rails that brokerages, banks and fintech applications embed to offer digital asset services. The firm handles custody, liquidity, compliance and tax reporting as a single integrated stack.
wolve.com • HQ: Chicago, United States • Stock Exchanges & Market Infrastructure • Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments • 51-200 employees • Hiring 16, 1 new
HQ: Chicago, United States • Stock Exchanges & Market Infrastructure • Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments • 51-200 employees • Hiring 16, 1 new
Wolverine Trading is a proprietary electronic trading firm that also runs Wolverine Execution Services, a client-facing execution platform for institutional trading firms. It hires C++ software engineers, network and trading operations engineers and options traders. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, United States.
