Tech companies chop hundreds of Bay Area jobs as layoffs persist

Tech companies have chopped hundreds of Bay Area jobs in fresh rounds of staffing reductions that didn’t include any high-profile cutbacks that some of the industry’s titans had previously announced.

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SambaNova Systems, Boston Scientific, Building Robotics, Stem and Cruise are among the tech companies that have recently disclosed to state labor officials their respective decisions to slash jobs in the Bay Area.

The job cut disclosures could weigh down an already struggling job market in the Bay Area and California.

The recent tech layoffs are all separate from prior revelations of plans for wide-ranging job cuts worldwide by Facebook app owner Meta Platforms, chipmaking colossus Intel, search titan Google and software giant Salesforce.

The full local impact of the job cuts being engineered by these tech titans wasn’t immediately known.

All told, tech companies have revealed plans to cut 266 Bay Area jobs in their most recent reports with the state Employment Development Department.

Here are some details of the latest tech company WARN notices filed with the California EDD:

— SambaNova Systems, a software company, 77 job cuts in Palo Alto. The reductions occurred April 22.

— Boston Scientific, a provider of software and hardware for the life sciences sector, 63 layoffs in Sunnyvale. The downsizing is scheduled for May 3.

— Stem, a provider of AI software for the energy and utility sectors, 52 job cuts in San Francisco.

— Building Robotics, a workplace software app firm, 48 staff reductions in Fremont. The job losses are due to occur June 30

— Cruise, a defunct autonomous vehicle company, 26 layoffs in San Francisco and Sunnyvale. The layoffs occurred in mid-April and early April.

A medical device manufacturer, a food company, and a beverage firm also disclosed plans for job cuts in recent filings with the state EDD.

Here are some of the details of these non-tech cutbacks, according to the EDD filings.

— Confluent Medical Technologies, a manufacturer of medical devices, 102 layoffs in Fremont. The staffing reductions are scheduled for June 2.

— T. Marzetti, a food products supplier, 78 job cuts in Milpitas. The downsizing and permanent closure of the South Bay site is expected for June 30.

— Primo Brands, a supplier of beverage brands such as Arrowhead water, 51 job cuts in Milpitas. The company’s site is closing at this South Bay location and several others in California. The Milpitas cuts are scheduled for June 27.

All of the layoffs for both the tech and non-tech companies were described as permanent.

So far in 2025, the Bay Area has lost 19,700 jobs and California has shed 54,800 jobs, the EDD reported. The tech sector layoffs could worsen the woes locally and statewide.