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Titles.

Who is hiring, August 2026

230 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

#TitlePostsChange
1Full Stack Engineer16% · e.g. Snout36-3.3
2Product Engineer11% · e.g. Kyra Health25+6.0
3Staff Engineer8.3% · e.g. Kyra Health19-2.2
4AI Engineer7.0% · e.g. Snout16+1.1
5Founding Engineer5.7% · e.g. Octozi13-1.8
6Product Manager5.2% · e.g. Snout12-1.0
7Platform Engineer4.8% · e.g. Snout11+0.9
8Forward Deployed Engineer4.8% · e.g. Middesk11+3.8
9Security Engineer3.9% · an example posting9+1.6
10Data Engineer3.5% · e.g. Snout8+0.5
11Data Scientist3.0% · e.g. SmarterDx7+0.4
12Machine Learning Engineer3.0% · an example posting7-2.6
13Engineering Manager2.6% · e.g. Role: Engineering Manager6-3.3
14Research Scientist2.2% · e.g. Harmony AI5+0.6
15Research Engineer1.7% · e.g. PostHog4+1.0
16Applied AI Engineer1.3% · e.g. Snout3+1.0
17DevOps Engineer1.3% · e.g. Open Education Applications / Neon3-1.7
18Solutions Engineer1.3% · e.g. Checkly3-0.3
19Developer Advocate1.3% · e.g. Friendly Captcha3-0.3
20Site Reliability Engineer1.3% · e.g. GetEpic.com3-1.3
21Member of Technical Staff1.3% · e.g. Aptura AI3+1.3
22MLOps Engineer1.3% · e.g. Prior Labs3+1.0
23Agent Engineer0.90% · e.g. Flywheel Motion2-0.1
24Design Engineer0.90% · e.g. Lopaka2-1.7
25Applied Scientist0.90% · e.g. Prior Labs2+0.9
26Deep Learning Engineer0.40% · e.g. Palace Cybersecurity1+0.4
27Head of Data0.40% · e.g. DuckDuckGo1+0.4
28Product Designer0.40% · e.g. Baton1-3.2
29Head of AI0.40% · an example posting1+0.1
30Blockchain Engineer0.40% · e.g. Category Labs1+0.4
31Data Product Manager0.40% · e.g. Foxglove1+0.4
32Analytics Engineer0.40% · e.g. Connie Health1+0.4
33Data Analyst0.40% · e.g. Data analyst1-0.3
July 2026The thread on Hacker News September 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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