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Titles.

Who is hiring, January 2026

257 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 32 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 21% of them.

Titles in this thread

Change is in percentage points vs a year before

32 of 32 titles

#TitlePostsChange
1Full Stack Engineer21% · e.g. Clever Benefits54+0.3
2Staff Engineer8.6% · e.g. Temporal Technologies22+2.1
3Product Manager7.4% · e.g. Temporal Technologies19+3.4
4Platform Engineer6.6% · e.g. DoShare Labs17+2.6
5AI Engineer6.6% · e.g. Cosuno17+3.0
6Product Engineer6.2% · e.g. AREO16+2.2
7Machine Learning Engineer5.8% · e.g. Immunera15-0.4
8Founding Engineer5.4% · e.g. Bevyl14-1.9
9Product Designer5.1% · e.g. Unit13+3.3
10Engineering Manager3.9% · e.g. AREO10+1.0
11Data Engineer3.5% · e.g. Quantum Rise9-1.6
12Site Reliability Engineer2.7% · e.g. Radar Labs7-0.6
13Security Engineer2.7% · e.g. Zetier7+0.9
14DevOps Engineer2.3% · e.g. FetLife6-1.0
15Solutions Engineer1.9% · e.g. Resemble AI5-0.6
16Data Scientist1.9% · e.g. 9 Mothers Defense5-1.4
17Applied AI Engineer1.6% · e.g. Cora AI4+0.5
18Forward Deployed Engineer1.6% · e.g. Resemble AI4+0.5
19Design Engineer1.6% · e.g. CoPlane4+0.5
20Developer Advocate1.2% · e.g. Trunk3+0.5
21Research Scientist1.2% · e.g. IPinfo.io3-1.0
22Agent Engineer1.2% · e.g. Lumos3+0.8
23Technical Product Manager1.2% · e.g. DeepL3+0.1
24Computer Vision Engineer0.80% · e.g. Pickle Robot2+0.1
25Member of Technical Staff0.80% · e.g. Artificial Analysis2+0.1
26LLM Engineer0.80% · e.g. BetterBugs2+0.8
27Blockchain Engineer0.40% · e.g. Category Labs1+0.0
28MLOps Engineer0.40% · e.g. Beatdapp1+0.4
29Data Analyst0.40% · e.g. CrazyGames1-0.7
30Research Engineer0.40% · e.g. Amperos Health1-0.7
31AI Product Manager0.40% · e.g. Tiger Data1+0.4
32Analytics Engineer0.40% · e.g. HomeVision1-0.3
December 2025The thread on Hacker News February 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.

Title trends by email

Monthly, the week after each Hacker News Who is hiring thread, only when a title moved.

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