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AI jobs on Hacker News - Who is hiring, and how demand trends

Track AI hiring demand in Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' posts. A live monthly trend of the AI wave, how it dwarfs the crypto cycle, and the real postings.

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Postings mentioning it
9,308
This month (Aug 2026)
52
Peak month
Jan 2026 (234)
Mention remote
50%
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Job postings

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Monthly AI job postings in the Hacker News Who is hiring? thread, one bar per calendar month since 2011. Narrow the window, add another skill to compare, and click any month to read the postings behind the bar.

AI job postings for August 2026

  1. ernel · hiring in Aug 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    ORIGAMICS | Founding Backend Engineer | REMOTE (US) Origamics is building AI models that reason about hardware and electronics systems. We turn existing schematics into production ready boards, helping hardware design move at the speed of software. We’re hiring our first…

  2. lknix · hiring in Aug 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    Shovels | Remote | Senior Data & Platform (Remote, Europe) | Senior Full-Stack Product (Remote, EU US) | Full-time Everyone building with AI is crowded into the digital world: dev tools, copilots, agents for software people. Meanwhile the largest asset class on earth, the built…

  3. norejisace · hiring in Aug 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    Flywheel Motion (flywheelmotion.com) | REMOTE (worldwide) | Contract We build authority infrastructure for people whose expertise has outgrown their digital presence — founders, scientists, operators. Positioning and narrative first, then the sites, content pipelines and…

  4. fiiico · hiring in Aug 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    Matcha.fm | FULLY REMOTE (US Canada Europe UK Brazil LATAM) | Full-time | https: matcha.fm Repeat founder building something new, hiring for these roles: Founding AI Engineer (ML data) - https: matcha.fm apply ai Backend Engineer — https: matcha.fm apply be Full-Stack Frontend…

  5. l1am0 · hiring in Aug 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    Proxima Fusion | Senior Software Engineer (Dev Platform) | Munich, Germany | ONSITE | Full-time We're building the world's first commercial stellarator fusion power plant. First spin-out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, based on Wendelstein 7-X (the largest…

Some popular AI job postings

The AI job postings that drew the most discussion in 2026.

  1. samcheng · hiring in Apr 2026 · 9 replies · read the thread · view on HN

    RINSE | REMOTE or San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, New York City, New Jersey, Seattle, Austin, Toronto, or Washington DC | Software Engineer | Full-Time | Salary: $80k-$200k USD | https: www.rinse.com Rinse provides dry cleaning and laundry delivery services to…

  2. thothmind · hiring in Jan 2026 · 8 replies · read the thread · view on HN

    Thothmind | Software Engineers (Backend, Frontend) | REMOTE (Global) | Full-time | https: thothmind.ai What we're building: - Strategy simulation engine with real market data - AI-powered agents for strategy generation and analysis - High-performance data pipelines and analytics…

  3. peterldowns · hiring in Feb 2026 · 5 replies · read the thread · view on HN

    At CloudX ( https: cloudx.io ) we’re building a new supply-side advertising platform for mobile publishers. Yes, it's ads, and yes, there's AI involved, so stop reading here if that's not interesting to you. It's a gnarly infra problem with huge scale, combined with an…

  4. matchieio · hiring in May 2026 · 5 replies · read the thread · view on HN

    Matchie.io | Multiple Roles | Remote + Hybrid | $80k–$220k+ We're Matchie — a fast-growing AI-powered global jobs marketplace. We've recently closed our seed round and are scaling aggressively. We're hiring across Engineering, Sales, Marketing, HR, Operations, Finance, and more.…

  5. poketmunsta · hiring in May 2026 · 5 replies · read the thread · view on HN

    Stealth Startup | Founding Engineer | NYC (in-person 5x week) | Full-Time The mission We’re building a best-in-class multi-modal AI agent product (voice + SMS + email) with the potential to disrupt deeply entrenched software businesses and unify a fragmented industry. We’re a…

What the AI hiring trend shows

AI is the defining hiring wave of the recent 'Who is hiring?' history, and the chart shows it surging post-2022 as generative models reshaped what companies staff for. Use share mode to see how large a slice of the entire market AI roles now command, and counts to watch the absolute number climb. Drill into any month to read the postings and see the shift from research-flavored 'machine learning' listings to product roles built around LLMs, retrieval and applied AI.

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