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Titles.

Who is hiring, September 2026

256 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 30 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 9.4% of them.

Titles in this thread

Change is in percentage points vs a year before

30 of 30 titles

#TitlePostsChange
1Full Stack Engineer9.4% · e.g. Quill24-9.7
2Staff Engineer8.2% · e.g. Stream21-0.8
3Product Manager7.0% · e.g. PlantingSpace18+0.3
4Product Engineer6.6% · e.g. Modash.io17+1.6
5Platform Engineer6.6% · e.g. OysterHR17-0.4
6AI Engineer6.6% · e.g. Starbridge17-0.1
7Security Engineer5.9% · e.g. Smarkets15+3.2
8Founding Engineer5.5% · e.g. Aerdos14-2.9
9Forward Deployed Engineer5.1% · e.g. Trustible13+3.4
10Machine Learning Engineer3.1% · e.g. Attendi8-2.6
11Data Scientist2.7% · e.g. Spade7+0.4
12Data Engineer2.3% · e.g. Cerity Partners6-2.7
13Research Engineer2.3% · e.g. Renaissance Philanthropy6+1.3
14Member of Technical Staff2.3% · e.g. Shared Context Lab6+2.0
15Site Reliability Engineer2.3% · e.g. PostHog6-1.4
16Engineering Manager2.3% · e.g. Comity Inc.6-2.7
17Agent Engineer2.0% · e.g. We The Flywheel5+1.3
18Product Designer2.0% · e.g. Smarkets5-2.0
19Developer Advocate2.0% · e.g. Runway5-1.3
20DevOps Engineer1.6% · e.g. Open Education Applications / Neon4-0.1
21Research Scientist1.6% · e.g. G-Research4+0.6
22Solutions Engineer1.6% · e.g. NetBird4+0.6
23AI Product Manager0.80% · e.g. WorkHero2+0.5
24Applied AI Engineer0.80% · e.g. Cora AI2-0.5
25MLOps Engineer0.80% · e.g. Prior Labs2-0.2
26Head of Data0.40% · e.g. DuckDuckGo1+0.4
27Data Analyst0.40% · e.g. National Association of Realtors1+0.1
28Applied Scientist0.40% · e.g. Prior Labs1+0.4
29Design Engineer0.40% · e.g. Odin1-3.3
30Head of AI0.40% · an example posting1+0.4
August 2026The thread on Hacker News

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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