Applications closed on Monday, 26 January.
Update on 5 February 2026: we are working through the applications (we received over 700 of them and are reviewing them one by one, by hand) and will be contacting people for the next stage of interviews by 13 February 2026. Those who we are not able to progress further with we will notify by 27 February, or when this position is filled, whichever is earlier.
The Pragmatic Engineer is one of the most popular tech publications, with more than 1 million readers – most of them software engineers/AI engineers and engineering leaders. We are not a typical publication – and so this is not your average opening either.
I (Gergely) am hiring for a tech industry analyst to work closely with me and help create future deepdives that can go even deeper than we have done so until today.
What you’d do:
- Research timely, relevant and interesting tech industry trends across startups, Big Tech and at some of the most fascinating tech companies of today
- Hop on calls with engineers and engineering leaders at innovative tech companies to learn more about how they build software, engineering challenges they have and solve, and other interesting details.
- Produce in-depth reports based on details learned via research and these conversations – reports that will be available to our paid subscribers. Here is one such report example.
- Contribute to deepdives that are published in The Pragmatic Engineer. Example deepdives include that on Cursor, Claude Code, Stripe and many others.
- Keep things interesting. We don’t like things that are repetitive or boring.
What you’d need:
- Experience working in the tech industry at either a startup or Big Tech, and having built software / written code in the past. The people we talk to are either software engineers themselves or have been, and a technical background helps us go deeper than most other publications are able to.
- Enjoy both researching interesting engineering topics, and talking with people working in tech
- Affinity to write clearly and in a structured way. We need to turn a lot of interesting information into formats that are both in-depth but digestible to our readers.
- Put together summaries and reports on what you’ve learned – which might serve as the basis for some deepdives
- Willingness and interest to stay close to what is cutting-edge across startups and Big Tech
What you’d get:
- Full-remote, flexible and async work.
- Part-time work to start (~10-20 hours per week), with the option to extend to a relaxed fulltime setup if there’s a match (~20-30 hours per week)
- Competitive compensation: €150+/hour ($175+/hour)
Applications close on Monday, 26 January 2026.