Jawbone Opening Seattle Office

San Francisco-based Jawbone, which makes noise-canceling Bluetooth headsets, is the latest Bay Area tech company to move into the Seattle job market. This job ad, first reported by GeekWire, says Jawbone is looking for experienced engineers for its expansion into Seattle. The ad gives no timeline for when an office might be open. Facebook, Zynga, Salesforce.com, and Splunk have also added satellite offices in the area.

Author: Curt Woodward

Curt covered technology and innovation in the Boston area for Xconomy. He previously worked in Xconomy’s Seattle bureau and continued some coverage of Seattle-area tech companies, including Amazon and Microsoft. Curt joined Xconomy in February 2011 after nearly nine years with The Associated Press, the world's largest news organization. He worked in three states and covered a wide variety of beats for the AP, including business, law, politics, government, and general mayhem. A native Washingtonian, Curt earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. As a past president of the state's Capitol Correspondents Association, he led efforts to expand statehouse press credentialing to online news outlets for the first time.