Who is hiring, March 2026

319 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 33 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 16% of them.

Titles in this thread

Change is in percentage points vs a year before

33 of 33 titles

#	Title	Share of postings	Posts	Change
1	Full Stack Engineer 16% · e.g. PrairieLearn	16%	51	-4.1
2	Staff Engineer 11% · e.g. Beautiful.ai	11%	35	+3.9
3	Product Engineer 8.5% · e.g. PostHog	8.5%	27	+4.0
4	Platform Engineer 7.8% · e.g. Beautiful.ai	7.8%	25	+3.3
5	Product Manager 6.3% · e.g. Sheer Health	6.3%	20	+0.9
6	AI Engineer 5.6% · e.g. BillionToOne	5.6%	18	+1.4
7	Product Designer 5.0% · e.g. OpenRent	5.0%	16	+2.2
8	Founding Engineer 4.4% · e.g. Gen-Alpha Transistor	4.4%	14	-1.5
9	Machine Learning Engineer 4.1% · e.g. Prior Labs	4.1%	13	+0.1
10	Engineering Manager 4.1% · e.g. Layer Health	4.1%	13	+0.4
11	Site Reliability Engineer 3.4% · e.g. Baseten Labs	3.4%	11	-0.6
12	DevOps Engineer 3.1% · an example posting	3.1%	10	+1.1
13	Data Engineer 2.8% · e.g. ClickHouse	2.8%	9	+0.0
14	Solutions Engineer 2.5% · e.g. Baseten Labs	2.5%	8	+0.0
15	Security Engineer 2.2% · e.g. Layer Health	2.2%	7	+0.5
16	Forward Deployed Engineer 1.9% · e.g. Prior Labs	1.9%	6	+1.3
17	Research Engineer 1.9% · e.g. Prior Labs	1.9%	6	+1.0
18	Data Scientist 1.9% · an example posting	1.9%	6	-0.9
19	Design Engineer 1.9% · e.g. HomeVision	1.9%	6	+1.3
20	Research Scientist 1.6% · e.g. Prior Labs	1.6%	5	+0.2
21	Developer Advocate 1.3% · e.g. Prior Labs	1.3%	4	-0.7
22	Agent Engineer 1.3% · e.g. Flux.ai	1.3%	4	+1.0
23	Data Analyst 1.3% · e.g. Smarkets	1.3%	4	+0.2
24	Applied AI Engineer 0.90% · e.g. Puntt.ai	0.90%	3	+0.6
25	Applied Scientist 0.60% · e.g. Prior Labs	0.60%	2	+0.0
26	Member of Technical Staff 0.60% · e.g. Gen-Alpha Transistor	0.60%	2	+0.0
27	Head of AI 0.60% · an example posting	0.60%	2	+0.3
28	Data Product Manager 0.30% · e.g. Sheer Health	0.30%	1	+0.3
29	Technical Product Manager 0.30% · e.g. PostHog	0.30%	1	-0.3
30	Analytics Engineer 0.30% · e.g. DeepL	0.30%	1	-0.3
31	Blockchain Engineer 0.30% · e.g. CEF AI	0.30%	1	+0.0
32	LLM Engineer 0.30% · e.g. Oscilar.com	0.30%	1	+0.0
33	AI Product Manager 0.30% · e.g. Oscilar.com	0.30%	1	+0.3

February 2026 The thread on Hacker News April 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.

Who is hiring, March 2026

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