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Titles.

Who is hiring, September 2025

299 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 32 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

32 of 32 titles

#TitlePostsChange
1Full Stack Engineer19% · e.g. Greenline57-2.2
2Staff Engineer9.0% · e.g. SmarterDx27+2.3
3Founding Engineer8.4% · e.g. Greenline25+2.4
4Platform Engineer7.0% · e.g. SmarterDx21+4.0
5AI Engineer6.7% · e.g. Proton20+4.7
6Product Manager6.7% · e.g. Checkly20+3.7
7Machine Learning Engineer5.7% · e.g. SmarterDx17+0.0
8Data Engineer5.0% · e.g. Friendly Captcha15+1.7
9Product Engineer5.0% · e.g. Dash015+2.7
10Engineering Manager5.0% · an example posting15+0.7
11Product Designer4.0% · e.g. Checkly12+2.3
12Design Engineer3.7% · e.g. Cogram11+2.0
13Site Reliability Engineer3.7% · e.g. Pex11+1.7
14Developer Advocate3.3% · e.g. Temporal Technologies10+2.0
15Security Engineer2.7% · e.g. Lovable8+1.4
16Data Scientist2.3% · e.g. SmarterDx7-0.7
17Forward Deployed Engineer1.7% · e.g. Foxglove5+1.7
18DevOps Engineer1.7% · e.g. Mathlib Initiative5-1.3
19Applied AI Engineer1.3% · e.g. Komodo Health4+1.3
20Computer Vision Engineer1.3% · e.g. Master Works / Nabeh4+1.3
21Technical Product Manager1.3% · e.g. AllSpice4+1.0
22Research Scientist1.0% · e.g. Fundamental Research Labs3+0.0
23Solutions Engineer1.0% · e.g. Foxglove3-1.3
24Research Engineer1.0% · e.g. Lovable3-0.7
25MLOps Engineer1.0% · e.g. Clio3+0.7
26Analytics Engineer0.70% · e.g. P2P.org - We’re Hiring2+0.7
27Agent Engineer0.70% · e.g. LiveKit2+0.7
28Data Analyst0.30% · e.g. SmarterDx1-1.0
29LLM Engineer0.30% · e.g. Master Works / Nabeh1+0.3
30Member of Technical Staff0.30% · e.g. Roundtable1+0.0
31Blockchain Engineer0.30% · e.g. Category Labs1+0.0
32AI Product Manager0.30% · e.g. TigerData1+0.3
August 2025The thread on Hacker News October 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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Monthly, the week after each Hacker News Who is hiring thread, only when a title moved.

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