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Who is hiring, March 2025

353 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 36 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

36 of 36 titles

#TitlePostsChange
1Full Stack Engineer20% · e.g. SluiceboxAI71+2.4
2Staff Engineer7.1% · e.g. Snout25+0.1
3Founding Engineer5.9% · e.g. LlamaIndex21+1.9
4Product Manager5.4% · e.g. LlamaIndex19-2.3
5Platform Engineer4.5% · e.g. LlamaIndex16-1.5
6Product Engineer4.5% · e.g. Modash.io16-0.2
7AI Engineer4.2% · e.g. LlamaIndex15+1.9
8Machine Learning Engineer4.0% · e.g. SmarterDx14-2.0
9Site Reliability Engineer4.0% · e.g. OneSignal14-1.0
10Engineering Manager3.7% · e.g. SmarterDx13-0.3
11Data Scientist2.8% · e.g. C.H. Robinson10-0.5
12Data Engineer2.8% · e.g. iwell10+1.1
13Product Designer2.8% · e.g. Foxglove10-1.9
14Solutions Engineer2.5% · e.g. Temporal Technologies9+1.5
15Developer Advocate2.0% · e.g. Toolhouse| SF/Bay Area Onsite7+0.0
16DevOps Engineer2.0% · e.g. Linkurious7-0.3
17Security Engineer1.7% · e.g. Zetier6+0.0
18Research Scientist1.4% · e.g. iGenius.ai5+0.1
19Data Analyst1.1% · e.g. Parable4+0.4
20Computer Vision Engineer0.80% · e.g. Vannevar Labs3+0.8
21Research Engineer0.80% · e.g. Norm3+0.1
22Technical Product Manager0.60% · e.g. LlamaIndex2-1.1
23Analytics Engineer0.60% · e.g. Honeylove2+0.6
24Head of Data0.60% · e.g. Seen Finance2+0.6
25Deep Learning Engineer0.60% · e.g. Incept AI2+0.6
26Applied Scientist0.60% · e.g. Incept AI2+0.6
27Design Engineer0.60% · e.g. Flexa2-0.1
28Member of Technical Staff0.60% · e.g. Stealth Startup2+0.6
29Forward Deployed Engineer0.60% · e.g. Abel2+0.6
30MLOps Engineer0.30% · e.g. iGenius.ai1+0.0
31NLP Engineer0.30% · e.g. PlantingSpace1+0.3
32LLM Engineer0.30% · e.g. Skysight1+0.3
33Blockchain Engineer0.30% · an example posting1-0.7
34Head of AI0.30% · e.g. Optimal1+0.3
35Agent Engineer0.30% · e.g. LiveKit1+0.3
36Applied AI Engineer0.30% · e.g. Kay.ai1+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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