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Who is hiring, December 2017

773 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 32 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 16% of them.

Titles in this thread

Change is in percentage points vs a year before

32 of 32 titles

#TitlePostsChange
1Full Stack Engineer16% · e.g. Warby Parker124+0.5
2Data Scientist7.9% · e.g. Tapad61+2.7
3Data Engineer5.8% · an example posting45+0.4
4DevOps Engineer5.3% · e.g. EDITED41+0.6
5Product Manager4.3% · e.g. GitLab33-1.4
6Site Reliability Engineer3.5% · e.g. Tapad27+0.5
7Product Designer3.5% · e.g. Booking.com27-1.1
8Engineering Manager3.1% · e.g. CyberArk24+0.9
9Machine Learning Engineer2.8% · e.g. Bayesian Health22+1.2
10Platform Engineer2.3% · e.g. Bayesian Health18+0.1
11Solutions Engineer2.1% · e.g. Tapad16+0.5
12Research Scientist1.2% · e.g. Blue Vision Labs9+0.3
13Security Engineer1.0% · e.g. Braintree8-0.3
14Developer Advocate1.0% · e.g. Wallaroo Labs8+0.8
15Research Engineer0.90% · e.g. Blue Vision Labs7+0.4
16Data Analyst0.90% · e.g. ==============7-0.4
17Staff Engineer0.80% · e.g. Warby Parker6+0.2
18Head of Data0.80% · e.g. Teachable6+0.5
19Product Engineer0.80% · e.g. Intercom6+0.6
20Design Engineer0.60% · e.g. Xactly5-0.2
21Blockchain Engineer0.50% · e.g. Digitas4+0.3
22Big Data Engineer0.40% · an example posting3+0.2
23Deep Learning Engineer0.40% · e.g. OSARO INC3+0.2
24Technical Product Manager0.30% · e.g. Warby Parker2-0.3
25AI Engineer0.30% · e.g. Bonsai AI2+0.3
26Analytics Engineer0.30% · e.g. GoodRx2+0.0
27Forward Deployed Engineer0.30% · e.g. Hivemapper2+0.3
28Applied AI Engineer0.10% · e.g. Bonsai AI1+0.1
29Data Product Manager0.10% · e.g. SpotHero1-0.1
30NLP Engineer0.10% · e.g. DMAI, Inc.1-0.2
31Computer Vision Engineer0.10% · e.g. Hivemapper1-0.4
32Member of Technical Staff0.10% · e.g. athenahealth1+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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