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Who is hiring, October 2019

718 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 31 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

31 of 31 titles

#TitlePostsChange
1Full Stack Engineer17% · e.g. Seantis GmbH122+0.4
2Product Manager7.8% · e.g. GitLab56+2.4
3Data Scientist7.2% · e.g. Relayr52+1.3
4Engineering Manager6.8% · e.g. GitLab49+3.6
5Site Reliability Engineer5.4% · e.g. Web3 Foundation39+0.7
6Product Designer5.0% · e.g. GitLab36+1.3
7DevOps Engineer4.9% · e.g. Insider, Inc35-0.7
8Data Engineer4.7% · e.g. Relayr34-0.3
9Platform Engineer3.9% · an example posting28+1.0
10Machine Learning Engineer3.5% · e.g. Occipital25+0.9
11Security Engineer2.5% · e.g. GitLab18+1.0
12Staff Engineer1.9% · e.g. Transparent Systems14+1.3
13Solutions Engineer1.7% · e.g. GitLab12-0.2
14Data Analyst1.5% · e.g. Factual11+0.6
15Technical Product Manager0.70% · e.g. GitLab5+0.5
16Product Engineer0.70% · e.g. CoinTracker5-0.3
17Developer Advocate0.70% · e.g. ForestAdmin.com5+0.3
18Founding Engineer0.70% · e.g. Lambda School5+0.1
19Computer Vision Engineer0.60% · e.g. Occipital4+0.2
20Head of Data0.40% · e.g. Recursion Pharmaceuticals3-0.2
21Deep Learning Engineer0.40% · e.g. Aquabyte3+0.1
22AI Engineer0.40% · e.g. Tact.AI3+0.3
23Head of AI0.30% · e.g. JustWatch2+0.2
24Research Scientist0.30% · e.g. Kira Systems2-1.2
25Design Engineer0.30% · e.g. Solana2-0.6
26Research Engineer0.30% · e.g. HyperCube2-0.6
27MLOps Engineer0.10% · e.g. Aquabyte1+0.0
28Blockchain Engineer0.10% · e.g. [still-unnamed startup in stealth mode]1-0.5
29Analytics Engineer0.10% · e.g. Bonobos1+0.1
30Applied Scientist0.10% · e.g. HyperCube1+0.0
31NLP Engineer0.10% · an example posting1-0.2

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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