Who is hiring, January 2021

701 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 31 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

31 of 31 titles

#	Title	Share of postings	Posts	Change
1	Full Stack Engineer 18% · e.g. Aha!	18%	123	+0.2
2	Product Manager 8.1% · e.g. Aha!	8.1%	57	-0.5
3	Site Reliability Engineer 6.4% · e.g. Niche	6.4%	45	-0.4
4	DevOps Engineer 6.1% · e.g. SprintEins	6.1%	43	+0.8
5	Data Engineer 5.8% · e.g. Episerver + Optimizely	5.8%	41	+0.0
6	Engineering Manager 5.7% · e.g. Zocdoc	5.7%	40	+1.0
7	Data Scientist 5.6% · an example posting	5.6%	39	+0.9
8	Product Designer 5.6% · e.g. Cfx.re	5.6%	39	+0.7
9	Platform Engineer 3.4% · an example posting	3.4%	24	-0.1
10	Machine Learning Engineer 3.3% · e.g. NASA ADS	3.3%	23	+1.2
11	Security Engineer 3.0% · e.g. Aha!	3.0%	21	-1.0
12	Staff Engineer 2.6% · e.g. Zocdoc	2.6%	18	+0.3
13	Solutions Engineer 2.1% · e.g. Striim	2.1%	15	+0.5
14	Product Engineer 1.4% · e.g. Taskade	1.4%	10	+0.0
15	Developer Advocate 0.90% · e.g. n8n.io	0.90%	6	+0.4
16	Founding Engineer 0.90% · e.g. Grouparoo	0.90%	6	+0.9
17	Data Analyst 0.70% · e.g. Good Eggs	0.70%	5	-0.5
18	Computer Vision Engineer 0.60% · e.g. StatsBomb	0.60%	4	+0.3
19	Research Scientist 0.60% · e.g. Beacon Biosignals	0.60%	4	+0.6
20	Research Engineer 0.40% · e.g. Exscientia	0.40%	3	+0.4
21	Technical Product Manager 0.30% · e.g. Entia	0.30%	2	-0.4
22	Blockchain Engineer 0.30% · e.g. Hashflow	0.30%	2	+0.1
23	Applied Scientist 0.30% · e.g. Citrine Informatics	0.30%	2	+0.3
24	Design Engineer 0.30% · e.g. Roblox	0.30%	2	+0.3
25	Deep Learning Engineer 0.30% · an example posting	0.30%	2	+0.0
26	AI Engineer 0.30% · e.g. Paige	0.30%	2	-0.4
27	Head of Data 0.10% · e.g. Zocdoc	0.10%	1	-0.2
28	MLOps Engineer 0.10% · e.g. MIT Julia Lab	0.10%	1	+0.1
29	Data Product Manager 0.10% · e.g. Pex	0.10%	1	-0.1
30	Chief Data Officer 0.10% · e.g. Kessel Run	0.10%	1	+0.1
31	NLP Engineer 0.10% · e.g. WELL Health Inc.	0.10%	1	+0.1

December 2020 The thread on Hacker News February 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, January 2021

Titles in this thread

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