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Titles.

Who is hiring, December 2025

376 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 32 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 18% of them.

Titles in this thread

Change is in percentage points vs a year before

32 of 32 titles

#TitlePostsChange
1Full Stack Engineer18% · e.g. Jam.dev68-1.8
2Staff Engineer9.6% · e.g. SmarterDx36+2.9
3Founding Engineer8.5% · e.g. Tendavo32+3.6
4Product Engineer7.7% · e.g. Jam.dev29+1.6
5AI Engineer7.4% · e.g. Shepherd28+2.8
6Product Manager6.4% · e.g. SmarterDx24+0.9
7Machine Learning Engineer4.8% · e.g. SmarterDx18+0.8
8Product Designer4.3% · e.g. Lovable16+2.5
9Platform Engineer4.0% · e.g. Virtasant15-0.3
10Engineering Manager3.7% · e.g. SmarterDx14+0.3
11Site Reliability Engineer3.5% · e.g. Koyeb13+0.4
12Data Engineer3.2% · e.g. Lovable12-1.4
13Security Engineer2.9% · e.g. Temporal Technologies11+1.4
14DevOps Engineer2.1% · e.g. Aha!8-0.3
15Forward Deployed Engineer2.1% · e.g. Lovable8+1.5
16Developer Advocate2.1% · e.g. Trunk8+0.0
17Solutions Engineer1.9% · e.g. Tracebit7-1.5
18Design Engineer1.9% · e.g. Lovable7+0.4
19Data Scientist1.1% · e.g. SmarterDx4-1.0
20Research Scientist1.1% · e.g. Longshot Systems4-0.1
21Analytics Engineer1.1% · e.g. CLEAR4+0.5
22Agent Engineer0.80% · e.g. GovDash.com3+0.8
23Applied AI Engineer0.80% · e.g. The General Intelligence Company3-0.1
24Research Engineer0.80% · e.g. Renaissance Philanthropy3-0.7
25Data Analyst0.50% · e.g. SmarterDx2+0.2
26Technical Product Manager0.50% · e.g. PostHog2-0.4
27Member of Technical Staff0.50% · e.g. Artificial Analysis2+0.5
28AI Product Manager0.50% · e.g. Tiger Data2+0.5
29Head of AI0.30% · e.g. Konvu1-0.3
30MLOps Engineer0.30% · e.g. Bonsai Robotics1+0.0
31Computer Vision Engineer0.30% · e.g. Bonsai Robotics1+0.0
32Head of Data0.30% · e.g. px dynamics GmbH1+0.3
November 2025The thread on Hacker News January 2026

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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