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Who is hiring, January 2025

275 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 33 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 21% of them.

Titles in this thread

Change is in percentage points vs a year before

33 of 33 titles

#TitlePostsChange
1Full Stack Engineer21% · e.g. WunderGraph57+5.8
2Founding Engineer7.3% · e.g. Tracebit20+0.0
3Staff Engineer6.5% · e.g. Purplefish18+1.8
4Machine Learning Engineer6.2% · e.g. SmarterDx17-0.7
5Data Engineer5.1% · e.g. Elicit14+0.4
6Platform Engineer4.0% · e.g. Sequin11-1.8
7Product Manager4.0% · e.g. 10x Genomics11-0.4
8Product Engineer4.0% · e.g. Eigen11-0.7
9AI Engineer3.6% · e.g. Pincites10+1.8
10Data Scientist3.3% · e.g. SmarterDx9+0.4
11Site Reliability Engineer3.3% · e.g. Kombo9-1.1
12DevOps Engineer3.3% · e.g. Kadoa9-0.3
13Engineering Manager2.9% · e.g. SmarterDx8-2.6
14Solutions Engineer2.5% · e.g. Kombo7-0.8
15Research Scientist2.2% · e.g. Krea6+0.4
16Security Engineer1.8% · e.g. Zetier5+0.0
17Product Designer1.8% · e.g. 10x Genomics5-1.8
18Data Analyst1.1% · e.g. SmarterDx3+0.0
19Design Engineer1.1% · e.g. Stack Auth3+0.4
20Forward Deployed Engineer1.1% · e.g. Thoughtful AI3+1.1
21Technical Product Manager1.1% · e.g. AREO3+0.7
22Research Engineer1.1% · e.g. IBM3+0.4
23Applied AI Engineer1.1% · e.g. Lumos3+1.1
24Analytics Engineer0.70% · e.g. SmarterDx2+0.7
25Member of Technical Staff0.70% · e.g. Purplefish2+0.7
26Computer Vision Engineer0.70% · e.g. Pickle Robot2+0.7
27NLP Engineer0.70% · e.g. PlantingSpace2+0.3
28Head of AI0.70% · e.g. Optimal2+0.7
29Developer Advocate0.70% · e.g. Stream2-0.4
30Blockchain Engineer0.40% · an example posting1+0.0
31Head of Data0.40% · e.g. Scribd1+0.0
32Applied Scientist0.40% · e.g. Intuition Machines, Inc.1+0.4
33Agent Engineer0.40% · e.g. LiveKit1+0.4
December 2024The thread on Hacker News February 2025

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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