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Who is hiring, May 2019

816 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 33 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

33 of 33 titles

#TitlePostsChange
1Full Stack Engineer16% · e.g. Qwilr130-0.2
2Data Scientist8.0% · an example posting65+0.9
3Product Manager7.7% · e.g. GitLab63+0.8
4Data Engineer7.2% · e.g. Vigilant Web59+2.3
5DevOps Engineer6.3% · e.g. Aha!51+1.0
6Engineering Manager5.4% · e.g. GitLab44+1.0
7Product Designer4.9% · e.g. Poki -40+0.9
8Site Reliability Engineer4.4% · e.g. United States Digital Service36+0.8
9Platform Engineer4.3% · an example posting35+0.1
10Machine Learning Engineer3.8% · e.g. Recursion Pharmaceuticals31+1.2
11Security Engineer2.1% · e.g. GitLab17+0.9
12Solutions Engineer2.0% · e.g. GitLab16+1.0
13Staff Engineer1.6% · e.g. Localytics13+0.1
14Developer Advocate1.2% · e.g. Forestry.io10+0.9
15Data Analyst1.1% · e.g. Red Ventures9-0.3
16Design Engineer0.90% · e.g. Greensea Systems7+0.4
17Technical Product Manager0.70% · e.g. CB Insights6+0.3
18Product Engineer0.60% · an example posting5-0.7
19Computer Vision Engineer0.60% · e.g. Passenger AI5+0.0
20Founding Engineer0.60% · e.g. Soda Labs5+0.5
21Research Scientist0.50% · e.g. Recursion Pharmaceuticals4-0.6
22Head of Data0.50% · e.g. Tapad4+0.1
23Research Engineer0.50% · e.g. Vernacular.ai4+0.0
24Deep Learning Engineer0.50% · e.g. Aquabyte4+0.2
25Data Product Manager0.40% · e.g. Vigilant Web3+0.4
26AI Engineer0.40% · e.g. Tact.AI3+0.4
27Head of AI0.20% · e.g. Tubi TV2+0.2
28MLOps Engineer0.20% · e.g. Quora2+0.2
29NLP Engineer0.20% · e.g. Nammu 212+0.1
30Forward Deployed Engineer0.10% · e.g. STRIIM1+0.0
31Analytics Engineer0.10% · e.g. Komodo Health1+0.1
32Chief Data Officer0.10% · e.g. Presidential Innovation Fellows1+0.1
33Blockchain Engineer0.10% · e.g. [still-unnamed startup in stealth mode]1-0.2

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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