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Titles.

Who is hiring, August 2021

833 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 29 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

29 of 29 titles

#TitlePostsChange
1Full Stack Engineer19% · e.g. Sounding Board161-0.3
2Product Manager8.9% · e.g. Codecov74-0.8
3Engineering Manager7.1% · e.g. Bolt59+2.2
4Site Reliability Engineer6.8% · an example posting57+0.7
5Data Engineer6.1% · e.g. Niche51+1.1
6Product Designer5.4% · e.g. Niche45+0.9
7Data Scientist5.0% · an example posting42-0.8
8DevOps Engineer4.9% · e.g. Tecton41+0.5
9Machine Learning Engineer3.1% · e.g. Tapad26+0.0
10Staff Engineer3.1% · e.g. Plus26+1.1
11Platform Engineer2.9% · e.g. MachineMetrics24-1.8
12Security Engineer2.4% · e.g. Codecov20-1.4
13Product Engineer1.9% · e.g. Execvision16+0.0
14Solutions Engineer1.7% · e.g. Giant Swarm14+0.8
15Founding Engineer1.4% · e.g. Clubs Poker12+1.1
16Developer Advocate1.3% · e.g. Encore11+0.7
17Data Analyst1.2% · e.g. Codecov10+0.1
18Blockchain Engineer1.0% · e.g. Ceramic Network8+0.7
19Technical Product Manager0.80% · e.g. Lumen57+0.5
20Research Engineer0.70% · e.g. Generally Intelligent6+0.5
21Head of Data0.60% · e.g. Valo5+0.0
22Analytics Engineer0.50% · an example posting4+0.2
23Computer Vision Engineer0.50% · e.g. Optimal Agriculture4+0.2
24Research Scientist0.50% · e.g. Foresight Data Machines4+0.0
25Deep Learning Engineer0.40% · e.g. SimBioSys3+0.1
26Head of AI0.10% · e.g. PathAI1+0.1
27Design Engineer0.10% · e.g. Alcorn McBride Inc.1-0.4
28AI Engineer0.10% · e.g. Shield AI1-0.7
29Forward Deployed Engineer0.10% · e.g. Splunk1-0.2
July 2021The thread on Hacker News September 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.

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