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Who is hiring, December 2018

756 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 32 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 18% of them.

Titles in this thread

Change is in percentage points vs a year before

32 of 32 titles

#TitlePostsChange
1Full Stack Engineer18% · e.g. Gecko Robotics135+1.9
2DevOps Engineer7.4% · e.g. Gambit Research Ltd56+2.1
3Product Manager6.7% · e.g. New Knowledge51+2.4
4Data Scientist6.6% · e.g. Validere50-1.3
5Data Engineer6.3% · e.g. New Knowledge48+0.5
6Product Designer5.8% · e.g. New Knowledge44+2.3
7Engineering Manager4.4% · e.g. Handy33+1.3
8Site Reliability Engineer4.1% · e.g. Gambit Research Ltd31+0.6
9Platform Engineer3.2% · e.g. Pusher24+0.9
10Machine Learning Engineer2.8% · e.g. New Knowledge21+0.0
11Staff Engineer1.9% · e.g. INTERCOM14+1.1
12Solutions Engineer1.7% · e.g. PubNub13-0.4
13Security Engineer1.6% · e.g. Commure, Inc.12+0.6
14Data Analyst1.5% · e.g. Gecko Robotics11+0.6
15Product Engineer1.3% · e.g. Amplitude Analytics10+0.5
16Developer Advocate0.90% · e.g. Twilio.org7-0.1
17NLP Engineer0.80% · e.g. StrideAI6+0.7
18Research Scientist0.70% · e.g. Recursion Pharmaceuticals5-0.5
19Design Engineer0.70% · e.g. Blockstack5+0.1
20Computer Vision Engineer0.70% · e.g. PathAI5+0.6
21Technical Product Manager0.50% · e.g. Sensor Tower4+0.2
22Head of Data0.40% · e.g. Tapad3-0.4
23Founding Engineer0.40% · e.g. EnvKey3+0.4
24Research Engineer0.40% · e.g. Galois3-0.5
25Data Product Manager0.30% · e.g. Oakam2+0.2
26Head of AI0.30% · an example posting2+0.3
27MLOps Engineer0.30% · e.g. Quora2+0.3
28Analytics Engineer0.30% · e.g. ReifyHealth2+0.0
29AI Engineer0.10% · e.g. Graphcore1-0.2
30Deep Learning Engineer0.10% · e.g. Aquabyte1-0.3
31Blockchain Engineer0.10% · e.g. Propine Capital1-0.4
32Big Data Engineer0.10% · e.g. Priori Data1-0.3

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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