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Who is hiring, August 2025

305 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 29 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 19% of them.

Titles in this thread

Change is in percentage points vs a year before

29 of 29 titles

#TitlePostsChange
1Full Stack Engineer19% · e.g. Eleshop58-0.3
2Staff Engineer11% · e.g. Goody32+2.1
3Founding Engineer7.5% · e.g. Nexus Intelligence23+1.9
4Product Manager6.2% · e.g. Temporal Technologies19+2.2
5Engineering Manager5.9% · e.g. *Blacklane*18+1.5
6AI Engineer5.9% · e.g. Founding AI Engineer at AI Tech Startup18+3.1
7Machine Learning Engineer5.6% · e.g. SmarterDx17-0.3
8Product Engineer4.9% · e.g. Fundamental Research Labs15+2.4
9Platform Engineer3.9% · e.g. SmarterDx12+0.5
10Product Designer3.6% · e.g. Sudowrite11+1.4
11Data Engineer3.0% · e.g. GoodParty.org9-0.4
12DevOps Engineer3.0% · e.g. Chronograph9+0.5
13Data Scientist2.6% · e.g. SmarterDx8-0.5
14Site Reliability Engineer2.6% · e.g. Radar Labs8-0.5
15Design Engineer2.6% · e.g. Fold8+1.0
16Security Engineer2.3% · e.g. Clio7-0.2
17Research Scientist1.6% · e.g. Fundamental Research Labs5+1.0
18Developer Advocate1.6% · e.g. Temporal Technologies5-1.8
19Solutions Engineer1.6% · e.g. Depot5-0.9
20Forward Deployed Engineer1.0% · e.g. Chestnut3+1.0
21Agent Engineer1.0% · e.g. StrongDM3+0.7
22Technical Product Manager1.0% · e.g. AllSpice3+0.7
23Data Analyst0.70% · e.g. SmarterDx2-0.2
24Research Engineer0.70% · e.g. Limitless2+0.4
25MLOps Engineer0.30% · e.g. Clio1+0.3
26Computer Vision Engineer0.30% · e.g. Duranta1+0.0
27Applied AI Engineer0.30% · e.g. Littlebird1+0.3
28Head of AI0.30% · e.g. BillionToOne1-0.3
29AI Product Manager0.30% · e.g. AllSpice1+0.3
July 2025The thread on Hacker News September 2025

Sources: Hacker News Who is hiring threads and about 130 public job boards, read weekly. A title's share is not the job market's size.

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