Oracle is laying off 161 workers in Seattle, according to a filing with the Washington state Employment Security Department.
The cloud and database giant has more than 400 employees in the Seattle region, according to LinkedIn. We reached out to the company for comment and we’ll update this story if we hear back.
The layoffs appear to be part of broader cuts across the tech giant’s operations. DatacenterDynamics reported Tuesday that the layoffs impacted Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) teams, as well as data center operations technicians, technical project managers for the AI/ML team, and others. Teams in the U.S., Canada, and India were impacted, according to the publication.
The company has 235 open roles in Seattle on its jobs page.
Oracle has grown its presence in the Seattle region over the past decade, tapping into the area’s robust engineering talent pool as it battled Amazon and Microsoft in the cloud. In more recent years Oracle has established partnerships with both Seattle-area companies.
Oracle, Microsoft, and other cloud behemoths are investing heavily to expand capacity for training and running AI models.
Rising capital expenditures have created pressure to reduce operating costs through workforce reductions. Microsoft recently laid off more than 15,000 people globally.
Oracle is part of the $500 billion joint venture AI infrastructure project “Stargate” with OpenAI and SoftBank. It also inked a recent deal with Temu and helps power TikTok’s servers.
Oracle announced last year that it was relocating its headquarters from Austin to Nashville.
The company’s stock is up nearly 50% this year.
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