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Titles.

Who is hiring, May 2026

317 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 34 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 17% of them.

Titles in this thread

Change is in percentage points vs a year before

34 of 34 titles

#TitlePostsChange
1Full Stack Engineer17% · e.g. UpMetrics55-6.9
2Staff Engineer11% · e.g. NetBird34+2.7
3AI Engineer7.3% · e.g. Pathos AI23+3.0
4Founding Engineer7.3% · e.g. Burnin23+1.6
5Platform Engineer7.3% · e.g. Smarkets23+2.6
6Product Engineer6.9% · e.g. # Moyai22-0.1
7Product Manager6.0% · e.g. We The Flywheel19+2.0
8Machine Learning Engineer4.7% · e.g. Pathos AI15-0.3
9Data Engineer4.1% · e.g. Smarkets13+1.1
10Forward Deployed Engineer4.1% · e.g. Factory AI13+3.4
11Engineering Manager3.8% · e.g. NetBird12+2.5
12Site Reliability Engineer3.8% · e.g. A24 Films12+0.1
13Solutions Engineer3.2% · e.g. NetBird10+0.9
14Product Designer3.2% · e.g. We The Flywheel10+1.5
15DevOps Engineer2.2% · e.g. Smarkets7-0.5
16Security Engineer2.2% · e.g. Beacon AI7+0.5
17Developer Advocate1.9% · e.g. MongoDB6-1.1
18Applied AI Engineer1.6% · e.g. Shepherd5+1.3
19Research Engineer1.6% · e.g. IBM Research5+0.6
20Data Scientist1.6% · e.g. DuckDuckGo5+0.3
21Research Scientist1.3% · e.g. Burnin4+0.3
22Design Engineer0.90% · an example posting3-0.8
23Agent Engineer0.90% · e.g. Mercor3+0.9
24Head of AI0.90% · an example posting3+0.9
25Technical Product Manager0.90% · e.g. PostHog3+0.6
26Head of Data0.60% · e.g. DuckDuckGo2+0.3
27Member of Technical Staff0.60% · e.g. Gen-Alpha Transistor2+0.3
28MLOps Engineer0.30% · e.g. OpenVPN Inc.1+0.0
29Data Product Manager0.30% · e.g. Foxglove1+0.3
30Analytics Engineer0.30% · e.g. Caribou1+0.0
31Applied Scientist0.30% · e.g. Prior Labs1+0.0
32Blockchain Engineer0.30% · e.g. Category Labs1+0.0
33LLM Engineer0.30% · e.g. Oscilar.com1+0.0
34Data Analyst0.30% · e.g. Oscilar.com1-0.7
April 2026The thread on Hacker News June 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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