Who is hiring, October 2025

339 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 35 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 17% of them.

Titles in this thread

Change is in percentage points vs a year before

35 of 35 titles

#	Title	Share of postings	Posts	Change
1	Full Stack Engineer 17% · e.g. ReciPal	17%	57	-2.4
2	Staff Engineer 11% · e.g. SmarterDx	11%	36	+5.1
3	Founding Engineer 7.4% · e.g. Raremarq	7.4%	25	+0.7
4	AI Engineer 7.4% · e.g. Moyai	7.4%	25	+5.9
5	Machine Learning Engineer 7.1% · e.g. Fundamental Research Labs	7.1%	24	+4.1
6	Product Manager 6.2% · e.g. SmarterDx	6.2%	21	+3.2
7	Data Engineer 5.9% · an example posting	5.9%	20	+0.4
8	Product Engineer 5.6% · e.g. Squint	5.6%	19	+2.6
9	Product Designer 4.1% · e.g. Crux	4.1%	14	+2.3
10	Security Engineer 3.5% · e.g. Temporal Technologies	3.5%	12	+1.7
11	Data Scientist 3.2% · e.g. SmarterDx	3.2%	11	+0.8
12	Site Reliability Engineer 3.2% · e.g. DuckDuckGo	3.2%	11	+0.2
13	Engineering Manager 2.7% · e.g. SmarterDx	2.7%	9	-1.9
14	Platform Engineer 2.7% · e.g. Beautiful.ai	2.7%	9	-1.9
15	Solutions Engineer 2.7% · e.g. Checkly	2.7%	9	+0.9
16	DevOps Engineer 2.4% · e.g. Aha!	2.4%	8	+0.6
17	Developer Advocate 2.4% · e.g. Stytch	2.4%	8	+1.5
18	Data Analyst 1.8% · e.g. SmarterDx	1.8%	6	+1.2
19	Design Engineer 1.8% · e.g. CoPlane	1.8%	6	+0.9
20	Forward Deployed Engineer 1.8% · e.g. Foxglove	1.8%	6	+1.8
21	Research Scientist 1.5% · e.g. Fundamental Research Labs	1.5%	5	+0.6
22	Research Engineer 1.2% · e.g. Fundamental Research Labs	1.2%	4	+0.6
23	Agent Engineer 1.2% · e.g. Valantor	1.2%	4	+1.2
24	Applied AI Engineer 0.90% · e.g. Vibrant	0.90%	3	+0.6
25	Technical Product Manager 0.90% · e.g. Parable	0.90%	3	+0.0
26	Blockchain Engineer 0.60% · e.g. pod network	0.60%	2	+0.6
27	Computer Vision Engineer 0.60% · e.g. Duranta	0.60%	2	+0.6
28	LLM Engineer 0.60% · e.g. Founding Engineer	0.60%	2	+0.6
29	Member of Technical Staff 0.30% · e.g. Artificial Analysis	0.30%	1	+0.3
30	AI Product Manager 0.30% · e.g. Artificial Analysis	0.30%	1	+0.3
31	Head of AI 0.30% · e.g. Konvu	0.30%	1	+0.3
32	MLOps Engineer 0.30% · e.g. Consigli	0.30%	1	-0.3
33	NLP Engineer 0.30% · e.g. Consigli	0.30%	1	+0.0
34	Deep Learning Engineer 0.30% · e.g. Deep Learning Researcher	0.30%	1	+0.3
35	Analytics Engineer 0.30% · e.g. Location: United States	0.30%	1	+0.3

September 2025 The thread on Hacker News November 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.

Who is hiring, October 2025

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