AUSTIN (KXAN) — The tech giant Amazon announced Thursday that it will be expanding its Austin Tech Hub, and subsequently bringing hundreds of new jobs to the city.

The expansion will create around 800 new jobs in fields ranging from software and hardware engineering to research science and cloud computing.

“In the last four years, we have created more than 1,000 jobs in Austin,” said the General Manager of Amazon’s Austin Tech Hub Terry Leeper. “With a strong pool of technical talent in Austin and a dynamic quality of life, we are excited to continue to expand and create more opportunity in this vibrant city.”

The Austin Amazon Tech Hub is one of 17 other hubs across North America. The company has created roughly 22,000 full-time jobs in Texas since 2011. They have also invested more than $7 billion in the state.

The Austin hub focuses primarily on Amazon Web Services, Amazon business, Amazon devices, video game design and advertising.

“We are pleased to see Amazon’s significant investment in the Austin region continue to grow,“ said Opportunity Austin Chair Gary Farmer. “This expanding presence is indicative of our region’s ability to provide creative and innovative talent. We’re proud to call Amazon a partner in our efforts to achieve regional prosperity.”

Tech industry growth in Austin

Amazon opened its Domain office in 2015. The company has about 1,000 people working there right now.

The new jobs being added will also be at the Domain. Amazon will be expanding into a new building under construction that’s scheduled to open in 2020.

“When we started looking around the area when we first got here, looked at where we wanted to be, who can commute here, where the engineers were and where the sales folks were, the Domain was actually the most centralized location for us,” Leeper said.

Danielle Trevino, Austin Chamber’s spokeswoman, said, “Each of these 800 jobs, those are 800 new opportunities for Austinites to pay their bills, to provide for themselves and families.”

Facebook is also at the Domain. It has about 500 people there, and according to a tech recruiting website called Built In Austin, Facebook also has 700 people in downtown.

According to Austin Chamber, Apple and IBM each has about 6,000 employees in north Austin. Apple will be doubling its workforce soon, too.

Built In Austin says another big name — Google — has about 800 employees all in downtown, and reports suggest, they’ll be expanding there.

Just 15 years ago, many of these companies didn’t operate in Austin at all. The Austin Chamber told KXAN we’ve seen more than 400,000 jobs added in our region since 2004.

Trevino said, “We have such innovative and creative people who live here, and because of that, companies like Amazon want to continue growing their presence here.”