[bsder]

Go down to Sorrento Valley. Take a rock, and throw it at a building. Austin doesn't have the defense and biotech sectors that San Diego has.

Big ones: BAE, Northrop Grumman, and General Dynamics. (Previously I would have listed Qualcomm ...)

A zillion biotech startups: I drive past at least a dozen near here every day: https://www.google.com/maps/@32.9104712,-117.2304182,18.57z

Rockstar San Diego seems to be hiring as far as I can tell.

In addition, a lot of manufacturing companies up in the San Marcos/Vista area all need automation programmers.

If you're not finding SD companies with software jobs, I'm very surprised.