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Who is hiring, November 2025

393 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 35 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

35 of 35 titles

#TitlePostsChange
1Full Stack Engineer19% · e.g. Pango76+1.2
2Staff Engineer8.4% · e.g. Beautiful.ai33+3.3
3Product Manager6.9% · e.g. FetLife27+2.5
4Founding Engineer6.6% · e.g. Tracebit26+0.3
5Machine Learning Engineer6.4% · e.g. SmarterDx25+3.5
6AI Engineer6.1% · e.g. Hiring Tech Lead24+2.3
7Product Designer5.3% · e.g. FetLife21+4.0
8Product Engineer5.3% · e.g. Hardian Health21+0.9
9Data Engineer5.3% · e.g. LiveMap21-0.7
10Platform Engineer5.1% · e.g. Beautiful.ai20+1.9
11Site Reliability Engineer3.8% · e.g. Pex15-1.0
12DevOps Engineer3.1% · e.g. FetLife12+1.2
13Security Engineer2.5% · e.g. FusionAuth10+1.2
14Data Scientist2.5% · e.g. SmarterDx10+0.3
15Engineering Manager2.5% · e.g. SmarterDx10-0.7
16Developer Advocate2.0% · e.g. FusionAuth8-0.2
17Solutions Engineer1.5% · e.g. QUOBYTE6-2.3
18Design Engineer1.3% · e.g. CoPlane5+0.0
19Analytics Engineer1.0% · e.g. Document Crunch4+0.7
20Forward Deployed Engineer1.0% · e.g. Foxglove4+0.4
21Head of AI1.0% · e.g. Konvu4+1.0
22Data Analyst0.80% · e.g. SmarterDx3+0.5
23MLOps Engineer0.80% · e.g. Shepherd3+0.5
24Research Scientist0.80% · e.g. Layer Health3+0.2
25Agent Engineer0.80% · e.g. Konvu3+0.8
26Technical Product Manager0.80% · e.g. Mercanis3+0.5
27Research Engineer0.50% · e.g. Sophont Inc.2+0.2
28Blockchain Engineer0.30% · e.g. Category Labs1+0.0
29Member of Technical Staff0.30% · e.g. Artificial Analysis1+0.3
30AI Product Manager0.30% · e.g. Artificial Analysis1+0.3
31Data Product Manager0.30% · e.g. Ledgebrook1+0.3
32NLP Engineer0.30% · e.g. Teleskope[0]1+0.0
33Applied AI Engineer0.30% · an example posting1-0.3
34Computer Vision Engineer0.30% · e.g. Duranta1+0.3
35LLM Engineer0.30% · e.g. Oscilar.com1+0.0
October 2025The thread on Hacker News December 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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