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Who is hiring, September 2017

778 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 32 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 17% of them.

Titles in this thread

Change is in percentage points vs a year before

32 of 32 titles

#TitlePostsChange
1Full Stack Engineer17% · e.g. Clustree131+1.8
2Data Scientist7.2% · e.g. Clustree56+2.1
3Product Manager5.8% · e.g. Etsy45-0.4
4Data Engineer5.0% · an example posting39+0.0
5DevOps Engineer4.4% · e.g. Wealthfront34-0.3
6Product Designer4.2% · e.g. BOOKING.COM33-0.2
7Site Reliability Engineer3.2% · e.g. Tapad25-1.0
8Platform Engineer3.1% · e.g. Wealthfront24-0.2
9Engineering Manager3.1% · e.g. Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services24+2.0
10Security Engineer2.3% · e.g. Blockchain Project18+0.9
11Machine Learning Engineer1.9% · e.g. Quora15+1.0
12Solutions Engineer1.4% · e.g. Zendesk11+0.6
13Big Data Engineer0.90% · an example posting7+0.4
14Data Analyst0.90% · e.g. Wag Labs, Inc.7-0.2
15Research Scientist0.90% · e.g. Sourceress7+0.1
16Deep Learning Engineer0.80% · e.g. OSARO INC6+0.3
17Technical Product Manager0.80% · e.g. Chimp Technology6+0.3
18Developer Advocate0.60% · e.g. StackShare5+0.0
19Founding Engineer0.60% · e.g. LoadDocs5+0.1
20Computer Vision Engineer0.50% · e.g. Bowery Farming4-0.3
21Product Engineer0.50% · e.g. Zapier4+0.2
22Design Engineer0.50% · e.g. Squarespace4-0.3
23Research Engineer0.40% · e.g. OnSpecta3-0.1
24Staff Engineer0.30% · e.g. Depop2-0.6
25Member of Technical Staff0.10% · e.g. Apprente1+0.1
26MLOps Engineer0.10% · e.g. Quora1+0.1
27Forward Deployed Engineer0.10% · an example posting1+0.1
28Blockchain Engineer0.10% · e.g. HelloSugoi1+0.1
29Data Product Manager0.10% · e.g. Transfix1-0.2
30Applied AI Engineer0.10% · e.g. Bonsai AI1+0.1
31AI Engineer0.10% · e.g. Bonsai AI1-0.1
32Head of Data0.10% · an example posting1+0.1

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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