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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
9,599
This month (Oct 2026 so far)
148
Peak month
Feb 2026 (225)
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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 October 2026 (so far)

  1. studyturtlehq · hiring in Oct 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    …Roles (REMOTE, non US): Animators (2D 3D or hybrid—experience with AI tools a plus) Director Writer - Writer and storyboarder, good at storyboarding, storytelling, writing, and prompting Computer vision engineer - Must have deep experience with SVG programming and or computer…

  2. jamesjyu · hiring in Oct 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    …tell better stories. * We believe the future of writing is AI & human collaboration. * Co-founders both had prior exits. ————————————————————— Hiring: Senior Mobile Developer * Build imaginative tools that help writers turn ideas into stories. * Work across the stack: from…

  3. jaredsilver · hiring in Oct 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    …https: brilliant.org In a world of cognitive offloading, Brilliant's AI tutor gets kids to actually think. The graphical canvas is interactable by both the learner and their tutor, leading to pedagogically-rich interactions. We're hiring an interactive-focused engineer to craft…

  4. rbrown · hiring in Oct 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    …platform that pulls together fragmented food-industry data, then the AI layer on top of it. Think Glean for the food industry. Customers who signed on as design partners a year ago are still here and still shape the roadmap. Stack: Kotlin, React, TypeScript, GCP, Postgres,…

  5. moustafakhedr · hiring in Oct 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    …preferred REMOTE considered | Full-time | Pre-seed We're building AI to predict clinical trial and drug development outcomes, and quantify how much confidence those predictions deserve. By linking the evidence available at a decision to the judgement made and what happened next,…

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

    …environment. We're also seeking engineers with experience leveraging AI to automate complex operational processes. This season, we're particularly interested in new grads or junior engineers, to round out the team. You will join a high-caliber team where collaboration, honesty,…

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

    …(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 We're hiring: Backend Engineer:…

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

    …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 interesting product space that we think legitimately benefits from tasteful AI…

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

    …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. Transparent salaries…

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

    …| 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 tiny team with real traction pre-product, moving fast, and we…

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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