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Who is hiring, May 2025

300 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 34 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 24% of them.

Titles in this thread

Change is in percentage points vs a year before

34 of 34 titles

#TitlePostsChange
1Full Stack Engineer24% · e.g. Terial73+6.8
2Staff Engineer8.0% · e.g. Terial24+1.9
3Product Engineer7.0% · e.g. Better Stack21+2.7
4Founding Engineer5.7% · e.g. Tracebit17-0.1
5Machine Learning Engineer5.0% · e.g. ko-br15+0.4
6Platform Engineer4.7% · e.g. Temporal Technologies14-0.6
7AI Engineer4.3% · e.g. Smile ID13+2.3
8Product Manager4.0% · e.g. Solace Health12-0.3
9Site Reliability Engineer3.7% · e.g. Chorus One11-0.9
10Developer Advocate3.0% · e.g. Temporal Technologies9+1.0
11Data Engineer3.0% · e.g. Epistemic AI9-0.5
12DevOps Engineer2.7% · e.g. Sphinx Defense8+0.4
13Solutions Engineer2.3% · e.g. Xeotek Inc.7+0.3
14Security Engineer1.7% · e.g. Zetier5+0.4
15Design Engineer1.7% · e.g. Stream5+0.4
16Product Designer1.7% · e.g. Norm5-0.8
17Data Scientist1.3% · e.g. SmarterDx4-1.5
18Engineering Manager1.3% · e.g. Goody4-2.2
19Research Scientist1.0% · e.g. SmarterDx3+0.2
20AI Product Manager1.0% · e.g. Temporal Technologies3+1.0
21Data Analyst1.0% · e.g. Sharecare3+0.5
22Research Engineer1.0% · e.g. Exa Labs Inc.3+0.2
23Forward Deployed Engineer0.70% · e.g. Sourcegraph2+0.4
24Applied AI Engineer0.30% · e.g. Ameba1+0.3
25Applied Scientist0.30% · e.g. Coveo1+0.0
26Member of Technical Staff0.30% · e.g. Purplefish1+0.0
27NLP Engineer0.30% · e.g. PlantingSpace1+0.0
28LLM Engineer0.30% · e.g. Skysight1+0.0
29Analytics Engineer0.30% · e.g. Equity Trust Company1-0.2
30MLOps Engineer0.30% · e.g. Foxglove1+0.3
31Technical Product Manager0.30% · e.g. AllSpice1+0.0
32Head of Data0.30% · e.g. Pavefi.com1-0.2
33Computer Vision Engineer0.30% · e.g. Canvas1-0.2
34Blockchain Engineer0.30% · e.g. Enjin1-0.2

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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