Who is hiring, July 2026

262 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 34 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

34 of 34 titles

#	Title	Share of postings	Posts	Change
1	Full Stack Engineer 15% · e.g. PrairieLearn	15%	40	-3.2
2	Product Engineer 8.0% · e.g. Kyra Health	8.0%	21	+1.9
3	AI Engineer 7.3% · e.g. Shepherd	7.3%	19	+0.9
4	Staff Engineer 7.3% · e.g. Kyra Health	7.3%	19	+0.0
5	Founding Engineer 6.5% · e.g. Talk Machine	6.5%	17	-0.5
6	Platform Engineer 5.7% · e.g. Odin	5.7%	15	-0.1
7	Engineering Manager 5.7% · e.g. Hover	5.7%	15	+0.2
8	Forward Deployed Engineer 5.3% · e.g. MONUMENTAL	5.3%	14	+3.8
9	Product Manager 4.6% · e.g. Ontix	4.6%	12	-2.1
10	Machine Learning Engineer 3.8% · e.g. WireScreen	3.8%	10	-1.7
11	Data Engineer 3.8% · e.g. Yuzu Health	3.8%	10	-0.1
12	Security Engineer 3.4% · e.g. Beacon AI	3.4%	9	+1.0
13	Developer Advocate 3.1% · e.g. Friendly Captcha	3.1%	8	-0.2
14	DevOps Engineer 3.1% · e.g. Ecosmic	3.1%	8	-0.8
15	Site Reliability Engineer 2.3% · e.g. Grafana Labs	2.3%	6	-0.7
16	Data Scientist 1.9% · e.g. SmarterDx	1.9%	5	+0.4
17	Member of Technical Staff 1.9% · e.g. Adyen	1.9%	5	+1.6
18	Research Engineer 1.5% · e.g. Flow Traders	1.5%	4	+0.9
19	Head of Data 1.1% · e.g. We The Flywheel	1.1%	3	+1.1
20	Technical Product Manager 1.1% · e.g. Ontix	1.1%	3	+0.5
21	Solutions Engineer 1.1% · e.g. Quantum Rise	1.1%	3	-1.3
22	MLOps Engineer 1.1% · e.g. Foxglove	1.1%	3	+0.5
23	Product Designer 1.1% · e.g. Lago	1.1%	3	-3.4
24	Applied AI Engineer 1.1% · an example posting	1.1%	3	+0.2
25	Design Engineer 0.80% · e.g. Foxglove	0.80%	2	-1.0
26	Research Scientist 0.80% · e.g. Surge AI	0.80%	2	-1.0
27	Agent Engineer 0.40% · e.g. We The Flywheel	0.40%	1	-0.8
28	Head of AI 0.40% · an example posting	0.40%	1	+0.4
29	Data Product Manager 0.40% · e.g. Foxglove	0.40%	1	+0.4
30	Analytics Engineer 0.40% · e.g. Connie Health	0.40%	1	+0.1
31	Applied Scientist 0.40% · e.g. Prior Labs	0.40%	1	+0.4
32	Blockchain Engineer 0.40% · e.g. Category Labs	0.40%	1	+0.1
33	Data Analyst 0.40% · e.g. Oscilar.com	0.40%	1	-0.5
34	Chief AI Officer 0.40% · e.g. Namecoach/Euphonia	0.40%	1	+0.4

June 2026 The thread on Hacker News August 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, July 2026

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