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Every open software job across the Knoxville metro — Knox County and the surrounding East Tennessee MSA, including the Oak Ridge national-lab belt (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Y-12), the Maryville / Alcoa corridor, and Lenoir City, plus the Sevierville / Pigeon Forge / Gatlinburg tourism corridor in Sevier County — pulled straight from each employer’s own careers feed and laid out plainly, with no aggregator noise in between. I keep it local and primary-sourced so wherever you are in the search, the next step is a little easier.

26 active postings · 4 AI required · 7 AI mentioned · 15 no AI mention.

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6d ago Denso North America · Mid

Tester Design Engineer - Automated Testing

No AI mention Maryville $73k–$100k Python C#

Summary

A test-engineering role at DENSO's Maryville plant designing automated electrical-test systems and writing the custom inspection software that verifies its inverter products before shipment. It is hands-on work combining measurement hardware with test-method development, suited to an engineer drawn to embedded test and quality over business applications.

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6d ago Denso North America · Mid

Tester Design Engineer - Vision Inspection

No AI mention Maryville $73k–$100k

Summary

A manufacturing-engineering role at DENSO's Maryville plant designing and maintaining machine-vision and automated optical inspection systems for the electric- and hybrid-vehicle inverters it builds. The coding is embedded and production-floor-facing rather than application development — a fit for an engineer who wants to work where software meets factory hardware.

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7d ago Clayton Homes · Senior

Senior Software Engineer

No AI mention Maryville React Go

Summary

A senior application-development role on an Agile Scrum team building and maintaining the internal products that run Clayton Homes' business operations, in Maryville. Expect full-cycle delivery with an emphasis on quality — unit testing, test automation, and root-cause debugging of production issues — suited to a self-directed engineer who can own moderately complex features.

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12d ago University of Tennessee · Unclassified

CRM Analyst: Office of the Provost - UTK

AI mentioned Knoxville Salesforce $75k–$85k

Summary

A Salesforce CRM analyst role in UT Knoxville's Office of the Provost, supporting configuration, maintenance, and improvement of the campus's enterprise Salesforce platform. It suits a CRM or Salesforce administrator-analyst who can partner with central IT and campus divisions — platform-admin work rather than custom software engineering.

AI-keyword evidence: llm

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21d ago University of Tennessee · Unclassified

Recruitment Coordinator - The College of Architecture and Design - UTK

AI mentioned Knoxville

Summary

A recruitment-coordinator role for UT Knoxville's College of Architecture and Design, running outreach, campus visits, and prospective-student engagement, and using data to target it. It is an enrollment and student-recruitment job rather than software work, despite appearing on this board.

AI-keyword evidence: llm

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27d ago University of Tennessee · Principal

Senior Campus Landscape Architect - Facilities Services - UTK

No AI mention Knoxville $91k–$96k

Summary

A senior campus landscape-architect role on UT Knoxville's Design Services team, leading planning and design of campus exterior spaces. Despite surfacing on a software board, this is a licensed landscape-architecture position — relevant only if you work in built-environment design, not software.

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70d ago University of Tennessee · Junior

Post Doctoral Research Associate: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering - UTK

No AI mention Knoxville

Summary

A postdoctoral research position in UT Knoxville's Civil and Environmental Engineering department working on sustainable construction materials, micromechanics-based modeling, and simulation-algorithm development. It is academic research with a computational-modeling core — for a recent PhD in materials or simulation, not an industry software role.

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99d ago Clayton Homes · Lead

Software Engineering Manager

No AI mention Maryville C# RPG

Summary

An engineering-management role at Clayton Homes leading the team that builds the accounting and servicing systems for the Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance subsidiary, on-site in Maryville. The work mixes people leadership with technical direction — modernizing legacy financial-services platforms and expanding cloud capabilities — for an experienced lead who wants to stay close to architecture.

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Mid

Application Developer (Hybrid Eligible)

AI mentioned Oak Ridge ServiceNow JavaScript Java C# DevOps

Summary

An application-developer role in ORNL's Software Engineering Group supporting enterprise IT applications and the lab's document- and records-management system. The stack is Vue.js, .NET, SQL Server, and Documentum/COTS customization — steady enterprise web development for a developer who likes maintaining and extending business systems.

AI-keyword evidence: artificial intelligence, ai-assisted

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Mid

Metrology Engineer

No AI mention Oak Ridge SAP ABAP

Summary

A metrology-engineering role providing in-laboratory calibration services to ORNL's research community, serving as technical lead for assigned disciplines and ensuring ISO/IEC 17025 traceability. The software content is limited to calibration methods and uncertainty analysis — a measurement-science seat rather than a development role.

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Unclassified

Cloud Developer

No AI mention Oak Ridge SAP JavaScript DevOps ABAP

Summary

A cloud-development role supporting ORNL's Cyber Resilience and Intelligence Division, building and deploying cloud-native applications that help identify threats to energy and critical-infrastructure assets. It pairs cloud engineering with security practices in a national-security context — for a computer scientist or engineer focused on cloud and critical-infrastructure protection.

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Senior

Senior Research Software Engineer

AI required Oak Ridge SAP JavaScript TypeScript Python Data Eng ABAP

Summary

A senior research-software-engineering role leading architecture and sustained operation of enterprise AI and data infrastructure in ORNL's Incident Modeling and Computational Sciences group — Docker microservices, GPU-cluster LLM inference, RAG pipelines, and observability for nuclear-forensics and consequence-management missions. It carries technical-leadership and mentoring responsibility.

AI-keyword evidence: rag pipeline, vector database

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Mid

AI Software Engineer (Hybrid Eligible)

AI required Oak Ridge SAP TypeScript ML ABAP

Summary

An AI/ML software-engineering role in ORNL's AI Operations Program designing and deploying generative-AI and machine-learning tools into production for business and scientific use. The stack centers on Azure with HPC and multi-cloud deployment — the individual-contributor companion to the program's senior AI-engineer opening.

AI-keyword evidence: vector database

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Unclassified

Research Software Engineer

AI required Oak Ridge SAP JavaScript TypeScript Data Eng ABAP

Summary

A research-software-engineering role in ORNL's Incident Modeling and Computational Sciences group building enterprise AI and data infrastructure — Docker microservices, LLM inference on GPU clusters, vector-database and RAG pipelines, and observability — that supports nuclear-forensics and consequence-management work for DOE, DoD, and DHS sponsors. A fit for an engineer who wants modern AI-platform work in a national-security setting.

AI-keyword evidence: vector database

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Unclassified

HPC Software Engineer

No AI mention Oak Ridge DevOps Infra

Summary

An HPC software-engineering role in ORNL's Emerging Technologies Computing group designing, operating, and maintaining the clusters and servers that run the lab's research computing. Clusters range from a handful of nodes to over fifty-thousand cores, so it suits an engineer who wants systems engineering at genuine HPC scale.

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Mid

Full Stack Developer (Temporary)

No AI mention Oak Ridge JavaScript TypeScript Python

Summary

A one-year-term full-stack developer role at ORNL's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Data Center, building internal web tools for the program's triennial deliverables. It is independent web-application development from requirements and mocks — a defined-term seat for a generalist developer comfortable owning features end to end.

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Unclassified

Dynamic Test Engineer

AI mentioned Oak Ridge ML

Summary

A dynamic-test engineering role in ORNL's Enrichment Science and Engineering Division supporting testing of enrichment devices, with the senior track leading programmatic tasks and KPI-driven improvements. This is mechanical and test engineering for the isotope-and-enrichment mission rather than software development.

AI-keyword evidence: machine learning

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Mid

HPC Linux Systems Engineer, Classified Environment

No AI mention Oak Ridge SAP DevOps ABAP

Summary

An HPC Linux systems-engineering role on ORNL's National Security Computing team, designing and managing high-performance-computing clusters inside a classified environment. It calls for HPC architecture and cluster-management experience plus the ability to work under strict security and compliance controls — clearance-eligible systems work.

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Unclassified

Control System Software Engineer

No AI mention Oak Ridge Java Embedded

Summary

A control-systems software role at ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source, developing and supporting the integrated control systems that keep the accelerator delivering beam reliably. The environment is EPICS with PLC/VME/MicroTCA hardware amid an active modernization push — a fit for an engineer who likes software tied to large scientific instruments.

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Senior

Senior AI Software Engineer (Hybrid Eligible)

AI required Oak Ridge SAP TypeScript ML ABAP

Summary

A senior AI/ML engineering role in ORNL's AI Operations Program building and deploying generative-AI and machine-learning tools into production for business and scientific decision-making. The stack is Azure-centric with HPC and multi-cloud (Vertex AI, Bedrock) deployment, for an engineer with a solid generative-AI and ML foundation.

AI-keyword evidence: vector database

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Unclassified

HPC Cybersecurity Engineer

No AI mention Oak Ridge SAP Ruby ABAP

Summary

A security-engineering role at ORNL's National Center for Computational Sciences, which operates some of the world's fastest supercomputers, applying DevSecOps and risk-based practices to protect the HPC infrastructure. It bridges hands-on engineering and security governance, suited to a security engineer excited by supercomputing-scale systems.

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Senior

Senior Radiological Engineer

No AI mention Oak Ridge

Summary

A radiological-engineering role on ORNL's internal-dosimetry program, running in-vivo counting operations and administering the program's Laboratory Information Management System. The systems content is operational rather than software development — a health-physics seat for a radiological engineer, not a developer.

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Unclassified

Survey, Alignment, and Metrology Engineer

No AI mention Oak Ridge

Summary

A precision survey-and-metrology engineering role supporting ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source accelerator, planning high-accuracy alignment of large mechanical systems and analyzing measurements with coordinate transforms and uncertainty propagation. The computing here is analytical rather than application development — a niche seat for someone grounded in surveying and measurement science.

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Unclassified

Applications Engineer - Advanced Manufacturing

AI mentioned Knoxville Embedded ML

Summary

A sensor-systems engineering role in ORNL's Manufacturing Systems Analytics group, designing image-based sensing for advanced-manufacturing machines and writing the data-acquisition software behind them. Based in Knoxville, it blends hardware, calibration, and machine-learning data pipelines for an engineer who likes instrumented physical systems.

AI-keyword evidence: machine learning

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Unclassified

Geospatial Data Engineer

AI mentioned Oak Ridge SAP Python Data Eng ML ABAP

Summary

A data-engineering role in ORNL's Geospatial Data Modelling Group building production-grade pipelines for scalable geospatial data science and applied machine learning. The output supports national-security, disaster-assessment, and resilience missions, so it fits an engineer who wants rigorous, repeatable geospatial ML engineering rather than ad-hoc analysis.

AI-keyword evidence: ai , machine learning, llm

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Principal

Principal Engineer for Geospatial Computing Infrastructure

AI mentioned Oak Ridge Data Eng

Summary

A senior technical-leadership role at Oak Ridge National Laboratory launching a next-generation Geospatial Data Computing Center for the lab's geospatial high-performance-computing research. This is infrastructure-building at national-lab scale — supporting geospatial science for national-security and humanitarian missions — for an engineer-leader ready to stand up a new center from the ground up.

AI-keyword evidence: ml

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Every posting is classified into one of three AI buckets: AI required when the description names specific AI tools as required skills (Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor) or names LLM/agent/RAG/embeddings as core to the day-to-day; AI mentioned when the description mentions AI tooling in passing without it being the core skill; No AI mention when the description contains none of the relevant keywords. Each row links to the matched keywords inline so you can judge for yourself.

The geographic filter is opinionated. Knox County (Knoxville) postings are always included; so are postings across the surrounding MSA — Anderson County (the Oak Ridge belt: ORNL, Y-12, the East Tennessee Technology Park), Blount County (Maryville and Alcoa, with Clayton Homes and the DENSO plant), Campbell County (LaFollette), Grainger County (Rutledge), Loudon County (Lenoir City and Tellico Village), Morgan County (Wartburg), Roane County (Kingston and Harriman), and Union County (Maynardville). Sevier County — Sevierville, Pigeon Forge, and Gatlinburg — sits just outside the official Knoxville MSA but is included here as the obvious commute-shed and tourism extension. Remote postings are included only when the employer also has a Knoxville-area office — otherwise anywhere-in-the-US remote noise would swamp the page. Use the Location filter to narrow to a specific city.

This page is an independent aggregation. Mungomash is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of the employers listed. Application-status tracking and email alerts are out of scope. Per-posting salary ranges are surfaced inline when the employer discloses one — structured ATS fields first, JD-body prose as a fallback; rows with no disclosed range render no chip. For broader salary context, see H-1B Salaries (visa-petition disclosures) and Dev Wages (national survey).

Meetups, user groups, and tech events

Recurring

KnoxDevs

recurring

Biweekly casual lunches on Thursdays, plus quarterly community events · in-person · Knoxville

community polyglot networking

The technology-neutral umbrella for Knoxville's developer community, run as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Hosts biweekly casual lunches and quarterly gatherings, and maintains the knoxdevs.com directory of every local dev group. A good first stop for anyone new to the Knoxville tech scene.

Knoxville JS

recurring

Monthly · in-person · Knoxville Entrepreneur Center, Knoxville

javascript typescript web react node

A JavaScript user group open to all skill and interest levels, with monthly talks across the front-end and Node ecosystem. Builds community through hands-on, practitioner-led sessions at the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center.

KnoxPy

recurring

Monthly · in-person · The Technology Cooperative, Knoxville

python data ml web

Knoxville's Python user group, where intermediate and advanced users share how they use the language at monthly meetings. Topics range across data, web, and general Python practice; newcomers are welcome.

Knox.NET

recurring

Every 3rd Monday of the month · in-person · The Casual Pint, Hardin Valley, Knoxville

dotnet csharp microsoft

The Knoxville-area .NET user group, a member of the .NET Foundation, focused on .NET and related Microsoft technologies. Meets the third Monday of each month at The Casual Pint in Hardin Valley.

KnoxJava

recurring

Monthly · in-person · The Technology Cooperative, Knoxville

java jvm kotlin

A group for Java and JVM developers in the Knoxville area to collaborate and learn from one another. Practitioner talks on the Java ecosystem in a relaxed, social setting.

KnoxData

recurring

Monthly · in-person · The Technology Cooperative, Knoxville

data data-science ml analytics

An open community for anyone interested in the multidisciplinary field of data science, drawing both business and academic practitioners. A natural fit given Oak Ridge and UT's deep data and computational-science gravity in the region.

Monthly · in-person · Knoxville Entrepreneur Center, Knoxville

devops cloud infrastructure ci-cd

A group exploring the intersection of development and operations — automation, cloud, and the tooling that ties them together. Practitioner-led sessions for engineers working across the deployment pipeline.

Monthly · in-person · TEKsystems, Knoxville

functional-programming fsharp haskell scala

The Knoxville functional programmers group, focused on collaborative learning of functional-programming languages and techniques. Welcoming to anyone curious about FP regardless of their day-job stack.

DC865

recurring

Monthly · in-person · Knoxville Entrepreneur Center, Knoxville

security infosec hacking sysadmin

Knoxville's information-security community — a DEF CON group for hackers, sysadmins, developers, and students. A welcoming on-ramp into the local security scene, relevant to a metro thick with national-lab and defense-contractor cybersecurity work.

Knoxville AWS

recurring

Monthly · hybrid · Knoxville

aws cloud devops

A group for cloud-computing practitioners focused on Amazon Web Services, sharing what they are building and running in the cloud. Open to anyone working with or learning AWS.

Startups

Early stage

PerfectServe

private Healthcare communication & provider scheduling

founded 2000 · 201-500 people · Knoxville, TN

healthtech saas clinical-communication scheduling

Clinical communication and provider-scheduling platform used by more than 500 hospitals and tens of thousands of medical practices. One of Knoxville's longest-running and largest software companies — private-equity-backed and well past startup stage, but a cornerstone of the local healthtech scene.

Starseer

seed AI security & compliance

1-10 people · Knoxville, TN

ai security ml compliance

A model-agnostic AI security platform that gives organizations visibility into AI behavior — analyzing and hardening models and defending against prompt injection, backdoors, and data poisoning while supporting compliance with rules like the EU AI Act. Raised a $2 million seed round led by Gula Tech Adventures in 2025.

VetVerifi

seed Veterinary compliance & pet health records

1-10 people · Knoxville, TN

healthtech vettech saas compliance

A platform that automates and secures pet-vaccination-record verification, integrating veterinary providers with grooming, boarding, and pet-daycare services to simplify a previously fax-bound compliance process. Closed a $2.8 million seed round led by Las Olas Venture Capital; an early portfolio company of Knoxville's Market Square Ventures.

Founders: David Servodidio (CEO)

Late stage

SmartRIA

growth RIA compliance automation

11-50 people · Knoxville, TN

fintech regtech saas compliance

Cloud compliance-automation software for registered investment advisors, compliance consultants, and chief compliance officers, used by more than 1,000 RIAs and compliance teams. A downtown-Knoxville regtech company serving the wealth-management industry.

Laborup

growth AI voice agents for workforce & labor

11-50 people · Knoxville, TN

ai voice automation staffing

Builds AI voice agents applied to workforce and labor operations, with regional expansion plans and a 2025 capital raise of roughly $7.7 million. One of East Tennessee's more visible applied-AI companies.

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