Who is hiring, December 2020

684 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

#	Title	Share of postings	Posts	Change
1	Full Stack Engineer 17% · e.g. Cash Flow Portal	17%	119	+0.9
2	Product Manager 7.5% · e.g. Codecov	7.5%	51	-0.4
3	Engineering Manager 7.2% · e.g. Cash Flow Portal	7.2%	49	+1.2
4	Site Reliability Engineer 6.7% · e.g. United States Digital Service	6.7%	46	+1.2
5	DevOps Engineer 5.4% · e.g. SprintEins	5.4%	37	+0.4
6	Data Engineer 5.4% · e.g. Torqata	5.4%	37	-0.4
7	Product Designer 4.7% · e.g. Codecov	4.7%	32	-0.1
8	Data Scientist 4.2% · e.g. Recursion Pharmaceuticals	4.2%	29	-2.3
9	Platform Engineer 3.5% · e.g. Casa	3.5%	24	+1.3
10	Staff Engineer 3.5% · e.g. Shield AI	3.5%	24	+2.0
11	Security Engineer 3.2% · e.g. 98point6	3.2%	22	-0.7
12	Machine Learning Engineer 3.2% · e.g. Tapad	3.2%	22	-0.6
13	Solutions Engineer 2.0% · e.g. Codecov	2.0%	14	-0.6
14	Product Engineer 1.2% · e.g. Whatnot	1.2%	8	+0.3
15	Developer Advocate 1.0% · e.g. oso	1.0%	7	+0.1
16	Founding Engineer 0.90% · e.g. ISO	0.90%	6	+0.7
17	Data Analyst 0.90% · e.g. 98point6	0.90%	6	-0.3
18	Computer Vision Engineer 0.60% · e.g. Caper	0.60%	4	-0.1
19	Research Scientist 0.60% · e.g. ETIQ	0.60%	4	+0.3
20	AI Engineer 0.60% · e.g. Workist	0.60%	4	+0.3
21	Technical Product Manager 0.40% · e.g. \| Entia	0.40%	3	+0.1
22	Research Engineer 0.40% · e.g. Minimax Labs	0.40%	3	+0.1
23	Design Engineer 0.40% · e.g. Roblox	0.40%	3	+0.4
24	Deep Learning Engineer 0.40% · e.g. V7 Labs	0.40%	3	+0.1
25	Data Product Manager 0.30% · e.g. United States Digital Service	0.30%	2	+0.1
26	Applied Scientist 0.30% · e.g. Citrine Informatics	0.30%	2	+0.3
27	Big Data Engineer 0.30% · e.g. Celonis	0.30%	2	+0.1
28	Forward Deployed Engineer 0.30% · e.g. Clay	0.30%	2	+0.3
29	Blockchain Engineer 0.30% · an example posting	0.30%	2	+0.0
30	NLP Engineer 0.10% · e.g. WELL Health Inc.	0.10%	1	-0.1
31	Head of AI 0.10% · e.g. PathAI	0.10%	1	+0.1
32	Head of Data 0.10% · e.g. Zocdoc	0.10%	1	-0.2

November 2020 The thread on Hacker News January 2021

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.

Who is hiring, December 2020

Titles in this thread

Title trends by email