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Who is hiring, April 2026

332 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 32 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 15% of them.

Titles in this thread

Change is in percentage points vs a year before

32 of 32 titles

#TitlePostsChange
1Full Stack Engineer15% · e.g. PrairieLearn50-7.6
2Staff Engineer9.0% · e.g. BIT Capital30+2.4
3AI Engineer7.5% · e.g. Shepherd25+1.9
4Product Engineer7.5% · an example posting25+2.2
5Founding Engineer5.4% · e.g. Tracebit18-0.8
6Platform Engineer4.8% · e.g. Oscilar.com16+0.5
7Product Manager4.5% · e.g. WireScreen15+1.2
8Machine Learning Engineer4.5% · e.g. Shepherd15-3.1
9Engineering Manager4.2% · e.g. Temporal Technologies14-0.1
10Product Designer3.6% · e.g. OpenRent12+1.6
11Forward Deployed Engineer3.0% · e.g. Stellar10+2.7
12Security Engineer2.7% · e.g. Aha!9+1.1
13Site Reliability Engineer2.7% · e.g. Rootly9+0.4
14Solutions Engineer2.4% · e.g. Squint8-1.5
15DevOps Engineer1.5% · an example posting5+0.5
16Applied AI Engineer1.5% · e.g. Shepherd5+0.5
17Data Scientist1.5% · e.g. HumanSignal5+0.5
18Data Engineer1.5% · e.g. LiveMap5-1.5
19Data Analyst1.2% · e.g. American Board of Family Medicine4+0.5
20Research Engineer1.2% · e.g. Prior Labs4-0.1
21Research Scientist1.2% · e.g. Prior Labs4-1.1
22Applied Scientist0.90% · e.g. Prior Labs3+0.2
23Agent Engineer0.90% · e.g. TechTalk3+0.2
24Design Engineer0.60% · e.g. Shepherd2-1.4
25Developer Advocate0.60% · e.g. MongoDB2-0.7
26Analytics Engineer0.60% · e.g. Caribou2+0.6
27Technical Product Manager0.60% · e.g. PostHog2-0.1
28Member of Technical Staff0.60% · e.g. Eagle2+0.3
29LLM Engineer0.30% · e.g. Oscilar.com1+0.3
30Computer Vision Engineer0.30% · e.g. GameBrain AI1+0.0
31Blockchain Engineer0.30% · e.g. Category Labs1+0.0
32Head of AI0.30% · e.g. BrandMultiplier1+0.3
March 2026The thread on Hacker News May 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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