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Who is hiring, May 2021

841 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 32 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 20% of them.

Titles in this thread

Change is in percentage points vs a year before

32 of 32 titles

#TitlePostsChange
1Full Stack Engineer20% · e.g. Mammoth Biosciences168+1.7
2Product Manager8.1% · e.g. Aha!68-1.1
3Site Reliability Engineer7.7% · e.g. Betterment65+1.5
4Engineering Manager7.0% · e.g. Betterment59+1.4
5Data Scientist5.8% · e.g. Mammoth Biosciences49+0.4
6Data Engineer5.6% · e.g. Aclaimant47+1.0
7Product Designer5.0% · e.g. Cfx.re42-0.4
8Platform Engineer4.9% · e.g. Interview Schedule41+2.5
9DevOps Engineer4.5% · e.g. DFINITY38-0.5
10Staff Engineer2.6% · e.g. MeetElise AI Technologies22+0.0
11Security Engineer2.5% · e.g. Aha!21+0.1
12Solutions Engineer2.4% · e.g. Codecov20+0.8
13Machine Learning Engineer2.4% · e.g. MeetElise AI Technologies20-1.6
14Founding Engineer1.9% · e.g. Grouparoo16+1.7
15Product Engineer1.7% · e.g. Staircase14+0.5
16Developer Advocate1.3% · e.g. Codecov11+1.1
17Data Analyst0.80% · e.g. Truework7-0.2
18Technical Product Manager0.70% · e.g. Kalepa6-0.1
19Blockchain Engineer0.50% · e.g. 3Box Labs4+0.5
20AI Engineer0.50% · e.g. ATHOS4-0.1
21Design Engineer0.50% · e.g. Roblox Corp.4+0.1
22Research Scientist0.40% · e.g. DFINITY3-0.2
23Head of AI0.20% · e.g. Cohere Health2+0.2
24Data Product Manager0.20% · e.g. Nuna2+0.2
25Deep Learning Engineer0.20% · e.g. Generally Intelligent2+0.2
26Applied Scientist0.10% · e.g. PicnicHealth1+0.1
27Head of Data0.10% · e.g. Valo1-0.1
28Analytics Engineer0.10% · e.g. 98point61+0.1
29MLOps Engineer0.10% · e.g. Squarespace1+0.1
30Research Engineer0.10% · e.g. Minimax Labs1-0.1
31Big Data Engineer0.10% · e.g. CipherTrace1-0.1
32Computer Vision Engineer0.10% · e.g. PathAI1-0.3

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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