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Who is hiring, February 2021

936 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 34 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 19% of them.

Titles in this thread

Change is in percentage points vs a year before

34 of 34 titles

#TitlePostsChange
1Full Stack Engineer19% · e.g. GooseChase179+1.8
2Product Manager8.2% · e.g. Niche77-1.2
3Site Reliability Engineer6.3% · e.g. JustWatch59+0.1
4Engineering Manager6.3% · e.g. 98point659-0.1
5Data Engineer6.2% · e.g. JustWatch58+0.5
6Product Designer5.8% · e.g. Niche54+2.7
7Data Scientist5.7% · e.g. Niche53+1.5
8DevOps Engineer5.3% · e.g. Relayr50-0.4
9Platform Engineer4.2% · e.g. Tapad39+0.0
10Staff Engineer3.6% · e.g. Shield AI34+1.5
11Machine Learning Engineer3.3% · e.g. Tapad31-1.2
12Security Engineer2.7% · e.g. Aha!25-1.6
13Solutions Engineer2.6% · e.g. Spacelift24+0.7
14Data Analyst1.8% · e.g. JustWatch17+0.4
15Product Engineer1.5% · e.g. Bunch.ai14-0.1
16Developer Advocate1.1% · e.g. Oso10+0.4
17Founding Engineer1.0% · e.g. ISO9+0.7
18Computer Vision Engineer0.70% · e.g. Occipital7+0.2
19Research Scientist0.70% · e.g. Spring Discovery7-0.2
20Design Engineer0.60% · e.g. Roblox6+0.4
21Blockchain Engineer0.50% · e.g. Covalent5+0.3
22Deep Learning Engineer0.50% · e.g. SimBioSys5+0.3
23AI Engineer0.50% · e.g. Vorto5+0.0
24MLOps Engineer0.40% · e.g. Snap Inc ML Platform4+0.4
25NLP Engineer0.40% · e.g. Epistemic AI4+0.4
26Technical Product Manager0.30% · e.g. Entia3-0.2
27Analytics Engineer0.30% · e.g. Torch3+0.3
28Head of Data0.30% · e.g. World Resources Institute3+0.1
29Research Engineer0.20% · e.g. Mesh2+0.0
30Applied Scientist0.20% · e.g. Wyze Labs2+0.2
31Data Product Manager0.20% · e.g. Pex2-0.1
32Head of AI0.20% · e.g. PathAI2+0.0
33Forward Deployed Engineer0.10% · e.g. Striim1+0.1
34Agent Engineer0.10% · e.g. Rapid71+0.1

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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