Who is hiring, October 2026

265 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 38 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 12% of them.

Titles in this thread

Change is in percentage points vs a year before

38 of 38 titles

#	Title	Share of postings	Posts	Change
1	Full Stack Engineer 12% · e.g. PrairieLearn	12%	32	-4.7
2	Product Engineer 9.4% · e.g. Planlab.ai	9.4%	25	+3.8
3	Staff Engineer 6.8% · e.g. River	6.8%	18	-3.8
4	Product Manager 6.4% · e.g. Shepherd	6.4%	17	+0.2
5	Platform Engineer 4.9% · e.g. Planlab.ai	4.9%	13	+2.2
6	Founding Engineer 4.9% · e.g. Hedge	4.9%	13	-2.5
7	AI Engineer 4.5% · e.g. Kaavio	4.5%	12	-2.9
8	Forward Deployed Engineer 4.2% · e.g. Cardog	4.2%	11	+2.4
9	Machine Learning Engineer 3.8% · e.g. Shepherd	3.8%	10	-3.3
10	Engineering Manager 3.4% · e.g. Runway	3.4%	9	+0.7
11	Security Engineer 3.0% · e.g. Spade	3.0%	8	-0.5
12	Solutions Engineer 2.6% · e.g. Checkly	2.6%	7	-0.1
13	Product Designer 2.6% · e.g. Smarkets	2.6%	7	-1.5
14	Research Engineer 2.6% · e.g. America First Policy Institute	2.6%	7	+1.4
15	Data Scientist 2.3% · e.g. Spade	2.3%	6	-0.9
16	Member of Technical Staff 2.3% · e.g. Albs	2.3%	6	+2.0
17	Site Reliability Engineer 1.9% · e.g. Rootly	1.9%	5	-1.3
18	AI Product Manager 1.5% · e.g. Shepherd	1.5%	4	+1.2
19	DevOps Engineer 1.5% · e.g. Open Education Applications / Neon	1.5%	4	-0.9
20	Data Engineer 1.5% · e.g. Snout	1.5%	4	-4.4
21	Agent Engineer 1.5% · e.g. Curai	1.5%	4	+0.3
22	Research Scientist 1.5% · e.g. Diffusion	1.5%	4	+0.0
23	Design Engineer 1.5% · e.g. Cardog	1.5%	4	-0.3
24	Developer Advocate 1.1% · e.g. SerpApi	1.1%	3	-1.3
25	Robotics Engineer 0.80% · e.g. Beacon AI	0.80%	2	+0.8
26	Head of AI 0.80% · e.g. SwingVision	0.80%	2	+0.5
27	Data Analyst 0.80% · e.g. Early-stage Startup	0.80%	2	-1.0
28	AI Tutor 0.40% · e.g. Brilliant.org	0.40%	1	+0.4
29	Head of Data 0.40% · e.g. DuckDuckGo	0.40%	1	+0.4
30	Computer Vision Engineer 0.40% · an example posting	0.40%	1	-0.2
31	Applied AI Engineer 0.40% · e.g. Kaavio	0.40%	1	-0.5
32	AI Scientist 0.40% · e.g. Tempus AI	0.40%	1	+0.4
33	Applied Scientist 0.40% · e.g. Prior Labs	0.40%	1	+0.4
34	Technical Product Manager 0.40% · e.g. Prior Labs	0.40%	1	-0.5
35	AI Systems Engineer 0.40% · e.g. Charly	0.40%	1	+0.4
36	Robotics Software Engineer 0.40% · e.g. Greenzie	0.40%	1	+0.4
37	Deployment Manager 0.40% · e.g. Sphinx Defense	0.40%	1	+0.4
38	AI Deployment Engineer 0.40% · e.g. Oscilar.com	0.40%	1	+0.4

September 2026 The thread on Hacker News