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Who is hiring, April 2021

876 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

#TitlePostsChange
1Full Stack Engineer18% · e.g. Hiro156+2.0
2Product Manager9.0% · e.g. Abine79+0.5
3Engineering Manager6.6% · e.g. Maven Clinic58+0.3
4Site Reliability Engineer6.6% · e.g. Tulip58-0.2
5Data Scientist5.8% · e.g. Tessian51-1.2
6Data Engineer5.4% · e.g. Blockwatch47-2.3
7DevOps Engineer5.1% · e.g. Ceros45+0.5
8Product Designer4.7% · e.g. LifeWeb 36041+1.2
9Machine Learning Engineer3.7% · e.g. Cohere Health32-0.2
10Platform Engineer3.4% · e.g. Blockwatch30+1.0
11Staff Engineer2.7% · e.g. Maven Clinic24+0.7
12Solutions Engineer2.4% · e.g. Spacelift21+0.2
13Security Engineer2.3% · e.g. Aha!20-0.1
14Developer Advocate1.0% · e.g. Codecov9+0.6
15Data Analyst1.0% · e.g. AllTrails9-0.3
16Product Engineer1.0% · e.g. RYSTA9-0.1
17Computer Vision Engineer0.70% · e.g. National Robotics Engineering Center6+0.3
18AI Engineer0.70% · e.g. Paige6-0.2
19Founding Engineer0.70% · e.g. Arctype6+0.0
20Research Scientist0.60% · e.g. DFINITY5+0.4
21Head of Data0.50% · e.g. World Resources Institute4+0.3
22Blockchain Engineer0.50% · e.g. Quant Finance4+0.3
23Head of AI0.30% · e.g. Cohere Health3+0.3
24Design Engineer0.30% · e.g. Roblox3-0.1
25Applied Scientist0.30% · e.g. Microsoft3+0.1
26NLP Engineer0.30% · e.g. Posh Tech| Multiple Full-Time Roles3+0.3
27Deep Learning Engineer0.20% · an example posting2+0.0
28Technical Product Manager0.20% · e.g. Spruce2+0.0
29Data Product Manager0.20% · e.g. Pex2+0.0
30MLOps Engineer0.20% · e.g. PicnicHealth2+0.2
31Analytics Engineer0.10% · e.g. 98point61+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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